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Tell him to try going swimming with 100lbs of weights tied to him. After all, if it is not "God's time" he will not drown.

That way there is no nasty conversations between you and the police.

It's nice that he has such a strong faith but it is based on misinterpretation

Ask him to check out Eccle.9;11 and Matthew 4:5-7.

Please excuse him. Bad religion can have people thinking that way, sometimes.

Jehovah created physical laws and they can not be violated.

If someone puts a weapon to their temple , pulls the trigger and a bullet is discharged, the hole created by that projectile would create damage and all other bodily functions would stop.

Having said that, one must understand the existence of a whole level of knowledge that modern man has not been able to understand.

Back in Jesus' day there was a virgin birth.

Today we call it 'artificial insemination'

There's a lot we don't understand.

A bullet to the brain is not one of those mysteries.

Crazy

If you shot him, and he died, it wouldn't prove that God doesn't exist.

I believe it is possible that God will protect those who have a specific mission in life that has yet to be fulfilled. It is also possible that people with low self esteem might believe this to be true of them, even when it isn't.

So it could go either way. He could be telling the truth, or he could be crazy. I tend to believe the latter because it is a sin to tempt God.

Joseph Smith is the consumate example of someone who escapes what seems to be certain death again and again, only to be murdered after, by his own admission, his work was finished. He prophesied his own death, and turned himself into the law, despite the dread which he felt. He never invited people to take pot shots at him though. It isn't good to take God for granted.

In fact, people have been shot in the head- at point blank range- and survived. It isn't common, but it has occurred. A lot depends upon the caliber of the bullet. There are people who have survived with virtually no brain damage because the bullet ricocheted off the skull. Then there are people like a woman I know, who spend the rest of their lives with a brain full of bullet fragments.

Just clarifying.

It sounds like your friend is crazy, maybe dangerously so. Whether we believe in God or not...and I do believe in God...we all live in a real world where it's possible to get hit by cars, struck by lightning and on and on. If you believe we have free will...and I do...then we make all kinds of choices about our lives on both big and small matters. If your friend is offering you the possibility of shooting him in the head, that's a choice he has freely made, but it doesn't mean that he has any kind of guarantee from God that his brains won't be splattered. The decisions we make all have possible and very real ramifications, and

Get a gun and ask the question again.

What he needs to be concerned with... it might be his time!

Edit: He's not crazy. The point he meant to make is thus: He will not die one second sooner than God ordains, nor will he live one second more than God ordains.

Proof of craziness.

If you agreed and shot him, you would be convicted of murder, or at the very least manslaughter, unless you convinced the court that you were as crazy as him and believed what he said to be true.

People have survived gunshots to the head before. But, is it God that's helping them survive or chance? Who knows?

Certainly proof of craziness. It neither proved or disproved the existence of any god.