Argumentative Essay On Euthanasia

Despite the constant praying by her family and everyone that was aware of her story, his daughter died at the age of 12 years old. After the death of his daughter, my uncle stated how his friend went into a deep depression. He was mad at God. He lost the desire to continue preaching and the desire to worship due to the loss of his one and only child. My uncle would call and to comfort him as well as pray for him and slowly he began to come around. His friend would still ask God, "Why didn't you heal my daughter"? "Why did you take her away from me"? Months went by and the Pastor said one night before going to bed and after studying the Word and saying his prayers, he received a Word from God. The Word he heard was as clear as day. God spoke to him and said "But she is healed". The message he preached was, even when we have …show more content…
Euthanasia is known by different terms such as mercy killing, assisted suicide, etc. It is the act of assisting someone in his or her own death who is terminally ill, suffering, and in great pain. The goal of the assisted suicide is to prevent the continuation of pain.
The Bible tells us that we are not to murder (Exodus 20:13). Murder is the unlawful taking of life, and killing is the lawful taking of life. Technically speaking, if a nation said that euthanasia was legal, then on a human level it would not be murder. But as societies often legislate moral issues in contradiction to the Bible and just because a society might say that euthanasia is good, does not mean that it is. We are to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29).
We are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26), and it is the Lord God who gives us life (Job 33:4) and who has numbered our days (Job 14:5). This means that God is the sovereign Lord who determines the day that we die. Therefore, we are not to usurp God's authority