Well, as you all may know that we cannot harm our body, because it isn't ours, correct? That's because it isn't ours to start with, it's God's, and always will be, correct? If I'm mistaken by anything I say in this thread please feel free to correct me!! Well, what do you think of people that eat excessively and what not, and people that just don't eat at all? What happens to them if they starve themselves? Is it like committing suicide, where they cannot have eternal life and cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven?
Forever,
Coptic Servent
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I don't think this can be applied to those with eating disorders. Over-indulgance is of course a sin, as are eating disorders brought about by inferiority complexes (which are always self-centered, despite what might appear to be humility) and other such things. However, I don't see in these the total despair and loss of hope in God that characterises suicides.
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mahraeel
plzz p4m sister in Christ
To say that these behaviours are sins, we need to understand that these terms were meant to be medical terminology, not moral conditions. Gluttony is not something that we can determine in reference to ourselves or the norm of society- God will be the judge of that. Anorexia nervosa, however, probably began as a superficial understanding of oneself. I had suffered partly from this, and I can relate. It begins sometimes with others demeaning you, and you unrashily driving yourself to be accepted, however, because your brain changes to perceive yourself different (continually pushing you to lose more weight), it becomes a spiraling downfall.
We should be careful when categorising it as a sin- are you meaning merely to say that it is not God's will or intent? Or are you doing so to have reason to look at them superiorly?
Forever,
Coptic Servent
anorexia nevousa and bulimia are mental illnesses...i dont see how u can link suicide to a mental illness.....both are unhealthy for the body and mind but suicide, the intent is to die due to a build of issues where as eating disorders are a desire to be thin....
As I have said that, it's "basically" like committing suicide, because since you think you aren't killing yourself "mentally", but "physically" as well since you aren't able to control yourself if you actually repetitively vomit purposely, with the intention that you won't die, but you are practically killing yourself, isn't it??
Forever,
Coptic Servent