Was Jesus' Sacrifice Suicide?

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I did not see a response. Why are you considering a divine act from a purely human standpoint? He was also accused of having a demon. Was that true? Let us consider a few points:

Suicide is a human concept, the product of despair - a violation of the virtue of hope. Judas despaired. Jesus did not and could not despair. Suicide separates and destroys - our Lord united and built up.
  1. With a sound mind, suicide is a mortal sin.
  2. Jesus had a sound mind; the most perfect human mind.
  3. Our Lord fulfilled prophecy, which was inspired and written through Him. His foreknowledge stands as evidence of His divinity above and beyond His humanity.
  4. He was unjustly arrested, tried and beaten - He did not turn Himself in.
  5. He gave no defense - a fair trial would have found no evidence and Pilate found no evidence meriting death.
  6. For the sake of convenience (a sin), Pilate submitted to the “lynch mob” that demanded Christ’s death - knowing that Christ was a King and that He was innocent.
  7. Pilate, to his initial credit, looked three times for a reason to spare our Lord’s life.
  8. Only in capitulating to the mob was the sentence of death submitted to - both by our Lord as well as Pilate - who washed his hands.
  9. Suicide violates the law of love, destroying the gift of God and failing to love God for that gift. It violates love of others and their love of you.
  10. Submitting to an unlawful and unjust death so that others might live is 100% consistent with the law of love, and Jesus, being God - is love.
  11. Our Lord’s death did not destroy, but created, as He is Creator. He created the potential for not temporal life, although He loves that - but eternal life that will never end. His was the only death in which gain was realized.
  12. He suffered a finite and unjust punishment so that eternal benefit would come from it.
This entire line of thought was originated with those who doubt. They refused to recognize God in the flesh - for if they did, they must then submit to Him. There are sins, both of credulity (believing without evidence) as well as that of incredulity (failing to believe despite evidence).

The sin here was man’s, demonstrating why our Lord had to die in the first place.
 
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