Do people who commit suicide go to hell?

Answer 1

Well, I know what church doctrine says, but only God knows the heart of any one person. Fact is, we are all just guessing about it. Noone can do that and come to tell us what happened next, so we will never know. I can't imagine God punishing someone for dying as a result of mental illness. Church says they go to hell. However, if it's true that we go to heaven as a result of having faith in God ( specifically in Christ's death in our place) rather than by our works; then suicide, which would be works, couldn't keep a person out of heaven

Answer 2

Suicide when committed in full knowledge and deliberate consent is a complete turning away from God (a mortal sin) and will send a person to hell.

There are 3 conditions of a mortal sin: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent.

While suicide (or any kind of murder) is always a grave matter, people who commit suicide may not always have full knowledge of what they're doing. Drugs can definitely impair one's thinking, as can other things, such as diseases, intense pain, or anguish. Therefore, suicide is not automatically treated as a mortal sin.

Only God fully knows the thoughts of a person at this or any time. We are not in a position to judge.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Although suicide can be a very selfish thing to do, there are cases where people have killed themselves in an effort to save others. In answer to your question; only God knows where that person will spend eternity. If the person who killed themselves didn't want a relationship with God there is probably a likely chance they will go to Hell, (eternal separation)

Answer 4

Hell is the grave so in a way yes, but as for fire and brimstone, burning for all eternity while the Devil pokes you in the behind with a fork, no because hell in that sense does not exist. An all loving God would never punish his children with such a horrible fate.

Answer 5

I don't believe that they do. Why would God turn his back on one of his children that were in that much emotional and mental pain? I believe different religions use Hell to frighten people into following what they say. An extreme case of peer pressure. What does your heart tell you God would do?
Love & Light
Sharon

Answer 6

Not all, only those who were not saved. In case of someone too young to know and understand-God has a way to deal fairly. No person will go to hell unjustly.

Answer 7

no one who has commited suicide has gone to hell. by the orthdox doctrine no one's in hell yet, not even the devil.
i don't think suicides are unforgivable. what about sick people who can't stand the pain anymore?

Answer 8

I believe that their souls go to a place where they must deal with the issues that caused them to take their lives and stay there until the issues are resolved. Then perhaps they can go on to the next level.

Answer 9

Suicides—A Resurrection?

THE tragic news of a suicide does not close a chapter in the lives of relatives and friends; it opens one—a chapter of mixed feelings of pity and anger, sorrow and guilt. And it raises the question: May we entertain any hope for our friend who took his or her life?

Although self-inflicted death is never justified, never righteous, the apostle Paul did hold out a beautiful hope for even some unrighteous ones. As he told a Roman court of law: “I have hope toward God . . . that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15.
Many theologians have long dismissed any suggestion that the resurrection of the unrighteous might offer hope for those who commit suicide. Why?

Centuries ago, churchmen introduced a non-Biblical concept: immortal souls that leave the body at death and go straight to heaven, purgatory, Limbo, or hell. That concept clashed with the Bible’s clear teaching of a future resurrection. As Baptist minister Charles Andrews asked: “If the soul is already blissfully in heaven (or is already justifiably roasting in hell), what need is there for anything further?” He added: “This inner contradiction has remained to plague Christians throughout the centuries.”

One result of such errant theology was that “since Augustine’s time [354-430 C.E.], the church has condemned suicide as a sin,” says Arthur Droge in the Bible Review, “a sin beyond redemption, just like apostasy and adultery.”

Jesus told a criminal sentenced to death: “You will be with me in Paradise.” The man was unrighteous—a lawbreaker rather than a distraught suicide victim—guilty by his own frank admission. (Luke 23:39-43) He had no hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. So the Paradise in which this thief could hope to come back to life would be the beautiful earth under the rule of Jehovah God’s Kingdom.—Matthew 6:9, 10; Revelation 21:1-4.

For what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection.

Only God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”
Granted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.
Thus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” His Son, is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”

The Scriptures encourage us to see ourselves, not as immortal souls, but as valuable creations of the God who loves us, who treasures our being alive, and who looks forward with joy to the time of the resurrection.

4000 years had passed from Adam & Eve, Jesus said to a Religious Leader that no one had gone to Heaven, and millions of people had passed away in death. This is a quote from the King James Bible:

John 3:13 " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,"
it seems to me, this would eliminate the "immortal soul" belief, not only that, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you completely do away with the resurrection that the Bible speaks about, because the resurrection is suppose to take place after Jesus comes the second time, and that has not happened.

Answer 10

It is just one sin, I believe God forgives sins except the unforgivable one. Suicide will be forgiven I bet, but God prefers that you SERVE Him on earth. So if you love God you would do His will and not be selfish.