“Killing another human being is an act of violence against God”

In light of the ‘assisted suicide’ debate in Parliament, Pastor Jon Hobbs of Grace Church in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, has shared a Biblical perspective he delivered in a sermon a few years ago on the command not to kill, applied to euthanasia and ‘assisted suicide.’

He explains that “we can only grasp the seriousness of these crimes when we grasp the wonder of being in God’s image. How we treat His representatives is how we treat Him. And so killing another human being is an act of violence against God, second only to killing His actual Son.”

Jon concludes that “there is something that is more important than our right to choose when and how we die and that is the importance of upholding the dignity of the human species as those made in the image of God.”  

Read Pastor Jon Hobbs’s sermon here >