torro/Seb... Faith is a wonderful thing. We are never alone when we have faith...and it is a tactic of the bully to make you think you are alone...got no one to turn to...when, in fact, if we had been following Jesus by faith, we would have everything Jesus said we would have, behind us. Namely, the authority of Almighty God. The sense that we have no one to turn to is a state of the mind that feeds the emotional black-hole that the Samaritans have to deal with on a regular basis...so that any help here might be useful to all those who understand what an emotional black-hole is. It is a state of mind where there is no faith in anybody or anything at all, and because of the ways of how the mind works, it keeps going round and round in circles analysing the same point of distress where there are no answers, and emotional exhaustion runs hand in hand with it. I once worked in a factory full of women who were being bullied by these tactics of emotional distress and their state of hysteria due to these bullying tactics made me realise why faith in Jesus Christ is much more important than faith in man...no matter what qualifications they may have.
All authority, according to Scripture, is not given to us - it is vested in Christ - and Him alone, as the second person of the triune God. That's normal Christian doctrine, based on Scripture. And, indeed, if we accept Him as Lord, we can trust Him, know Him in our lives, let Him be part of who we are. Again, standard Christian doctrine, and with which I concur with every fibre of my being. But why bring in the Samaritans? Are you claiming expertise in mental health, as well as cience and physics? Way to go = three out of three; 100% failure rate. Congratulations. You DO realise that Christians - committed Christians; Bible-believing Christians, can suffer from the very real mwedical disease of clinical depression, as well as other well-documented mental illnesses, which can lead them to contemplate suicide - and sometimes, regrettably, succeeed? You DO know that Christians - committed, Bible believers - can seek suicide as an alternative for a life-limiting, debilitating or terminal illness? Not some spiritual pseudoscientific technobabble, NM, real, medical factual conditions. There, thank GOD, the Samaritans can sometimes offer a non judgemental ear when sometimes, all some Christians want to do is fling Scripture at them in the hope it sticks, rather than walk with them, listen to them, and be with them. Don't ruin any Christian Witness with any vile trash about mental illness being some klack of dynamic energy caused by an aircraft leaving a trail spelling out the name of a planet some cretin says is going to collide with us.
