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>>680704

The guy in your pic is a orthodox monk. The pic on your OP is from.a video he was in. If I come across it again then I'll see if I can send it to you.

As for your question, I wouldn't say it's a sin to want to die, just that it's a sign of a heart that isn't at peace with Christ. Because if you were, why would you want to die? Anyway, I suggest pray and seek God and find peace with Him. And when you think you've prayed enough, pray more for the kingdom of heaven is taken by those who take it by force.

>>680704

>>680721

T>>680721

Thanks. I feel like if I were diagnosed with something terminal, I’d go out stoically. I’ve adopted more of an attitude that some of the troubles in my life may be necessary for me to have experienced. People are children of God, and sometimes we don’t understand God in the way a child doesn’t understand his parents. A child feels hurt because a parent makes him do his choirs, or won’t let the child have an extra dessert. The young child doesn’t yet understand the reasons why.

I think a part of me does want to die, and a part of me doesn’t mind if I were to die tomorrow.

This comes off as despondency, which is indeed a sin.

Remember that hope is one of the core tenants of the faith.

>>680704

You're mortal so death is coming no matter what. At the same time you are immortal spiritually and a temple for the holy spirit. Suicide is never an option since you do not fully own your body. Even Socrates realized this, he said his body belongs to the God's so it must be treated as borrowed property.

Sure he committed suicide but it was by legal sentencing, similar to Seneca. Unless you're under legal sentencing or in some bizarre coercive prisoner of war situation you should never consider it a right or viable option.

>>680779

I feel more despair after reading that.

It depends on what you mean by "not wanting to live". Wishing to not live because you hate how your life is going is both hating God's sovereignty and loving death is a serious sin.

Not wanting to live because you, like Paul, wants to be with our Lord and other believers who have died and free from sin once and for all is perfectly natural for a Christian.

>>680721

Does this hold true though if you are looking forward to the second coming of Christ? I don’t want to die, per se, but I was under the impression that all would die in the event, and those saved (including those that has passed prior) would be reborn in heaven to give glory to God for eternity. And that is something to want, right?

Look at Job, that guy lost bascially everything he had and he felt that way.