“If God doesn’t like suicide, isn’t what Jesus did kind of like that? Did God send
His Son to be murdered?”
Hmm. Maybe I’ll go with the second question first.
Peter’s message to the Jews at Pentecost was: “This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,
you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” That puts the responsibility for Christ’s death
squarely where it belongs, I think: God certainly delivered him up, but it was lawless
men that crucified and killed him. We can argue that God knew in advance that
his Son would be rejected and murdered, and this is certainly true, but
everyone involved in putting the Lord Jesus to death made a personal choice, from
Pilate to Herod to the soldiers who crucified him, most especially the Jews who
cried out repeatedly for his death.
As for suicide, well, that’s another story …