The Good Samaritan didn’t offer lethal drugs to the dying. Neither should we
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James Mildred2024-10-04T13:57:00
A proposal to legalise assisted dying will be debated by MPs this month. James Mildred says Christians have many powerful reasons to oppose a change in the law
“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for, that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his had and cut off my life! Then I would have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.” (Job 6:8-10)
So said Job, the righteous man who lost everything. God permitted Satan to attack him. He went from prosperity and health to poverty and the darkness of physical, mental, and spiritual pain almost overnight.
Job’s situation is one we all fear. Especially if…
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