The Christian Case Against Medical Suicide

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Medical Aid (MAiD) in Dying is expanding across the U.S., often framed as compassionate care for the terminally ill. But when language shifts from suicide to medical assistance, the theological stakes change. This conversation examines euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and the biblical view of life, suffering, and God’s sovereignty. If Christ alone is Lord over life and death, what does that mean for end-of-life decisions? Transformed Podcast Episode 159 | January 22, 2026 ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is?
0:01.0	What is?
0:02.0	What is?
0:03.0	What is Biblical counseling?
0:04.0	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.0	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.0	God replaced all my junk with, with a beautiful light.
0:14.0	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.0	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word.
0:23.0	This is Transform.
0:24.9	And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's University
0:29.9	and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford.
0:36.1	Welcome back to Transform.
0:37.5	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and I am your host.
0:40.0	And today we are starting another series on biblical counseling stories.
0:45.7	Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
0:49.0	That's my 60 seconds slash investigative reporter noise for all of you. And if you would like, I'm going to
0:56.9	talk in my Barbara Walters accent, this whole entire episode, because we are doing another
1:03.4	investigation. All right, I'll stop messing around. Yeah, we've done biblical counseling
1:06.8	stories all the way back to AI therapy. I did an episode on Ozzympic and understanding that.
1:13.5	And what I've tried to do is to take more of a narrativeal form in our episodes to report to you on
1:20.3	current issues. It's fascinating to me. Well, because when I did the crunchy episode,
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