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Originally Posted by kerry
It's my understanding that the very early prohibition of suicide in Christianity developed because Christians were following the logic of their faith too closely and not resisting death strongly enough since death offered them a superior existence.
Jesus's own death could be seen as an act of revolutionary suicide so I don't see how on principle, Jones could not be a Christian.
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Very early Christians were wayward Jews, who had a long history of prohibition from suicide. The Christianized Romans *may* have been more Roman than Jew.
Jesus *could* be viewed any way you wish. But the eyewitness accounts offer a story at variance with what you suppose *could* have been.
You have such a hard-on for the pentacostalists that you have lost objectivity. They are all nails now.