Timeline for What is the Roman Catholic point of view regarding spies who commit suicide in order to avoid capture?
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 21:06 | comment | added | user46876 | @eques: Better now ? | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 21:06 | history | edited | user46876 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:34 | comment | added | eques | Argument from silence = fallacy. Aquinas in the summa: newadvent.org/summa/3064.htm#article5 references this verse. Augustine also discusses it. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:22 | comment | added | user46876 | @eques: Were that to have actually been the case, then one would logically expect at least one (famous) person, over the past two millennia, to have whispered something about such a supposedly problematic passage of scripture; after all, there are countless Catholic writings about harmonizing the various perceived discrepancies, contained within the four Gospels, for instance. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:18 | comment | added | eques | Not what I said at all. Catholicism unlike Protestantism does not use Sola Scriptura. Doctrine is not derived by taking quotes from Scripture on its own. To use this verse, although it is inspired, to justify suicide rather than capture would be an heretical interpretation according to the Catholic Church. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | user46876 | @eques: It is a relatively unambiguous passage of a writing two millennia of Catholics regarded as sacred scripture; I find it highly doubtful to think that countless generations of saints, popes, and believers, were blissfully unaware of its content. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:09 | comment | added | eques | The question asks about the Catholic Church's teaching. Just throwing a quote from Scripture out there does not answer the question AND does not allow anyone to draw the right conclusion. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 19:04 | comment | added | user46876 | @eques: I intentionally keep my answers low key, leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions; look, for instance, at the (very positive) manner in which the character is portrayed by the biblical text (as opposed to Saul, in his later years, for instance; were I to have referenced 1 Samuel 31:4-5 or 1 Chronicles 10:4-5, one obvious and justified objection would have been that, by that time, the character is already described as having been rejected by God). | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 14:40 | comment | added | eques | How does this answer the question? Simply quoting Scripture does not prove a doctrinal position. Lots of people in Scripture do things that are actually immoral. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:52 | history | edited | Tom Hosker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:17 | comment | added | user46876 | See also Judges 16:23-31. | |
| S Jul 27, 2021 at 8:01 | history | answered | user46876 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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