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I'd be curious to hear their rationale that God can only take lives; do they mean that lives can only be taken by God, or that God is incapable of giving life and thus can only take it?
Within my personal beliefs, everything that exists - paradoxical as it comes out to be - is God. People, air, animals, trees, cars, trash, death, ballpoint pens... all of it, made of God. So based on that viewpoint, I agree that death would be caused by God. As would life, and everything else. Suicide included, as the God-self that is the person would be taking their own - God's - life from their own God-self. It can be a bit much to wrap your head around, especially when considering the paradoxes. In the end it comes down to this; God can exist in any form, and can exist in two forms that seem impossible to exist simultaneously. The God one person believes in could be only capable of taking lives, and the God another person believes in could be only capable of giving lives. Neither is wrong, and what you choose to believe in is just as true as what someone else believes in.
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"Sometimes you will act as an angel to others, perhaps without even realizing it. One day a woman comes up to you and says 'You saved my life'. You look at her astonished, trying to remember the last time you even saw this person before, the meeting meant so little to you at the time. 'Don't you remember? I was standing on the bridge, staring at the water, and you passed and said 'Good morning'."
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