I ask because depression is a sickness like cancer or any other disease and it could kill u by your own hand. So if a person is sick with depression and kills themself do u thin they would go to hell?
2006-07-14 03:04:30 · 15 answers · asked by caron c 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
The Bible is silent on the issue of suicide, but I would like to strongly urge you to focus not on the consequences of suicide but rather how to overcome suicidal feelings. I'm now an ordained evangelical minister but was on the verge of suicide after my freshman year of high school. I can say emphatically that God's grace can carry us through anything, no matter how hard, if we just trust Him. If you are asking this question about yourself, please find a friend or pastor or especially a trained counselor you can talk to. I've got a list of crisis-hotline numbers at the links below, as well as information about my own struggle. Please e-mail me at chad@jesusfreak.com if I can help. I'll be praying for you.
2006-07-19 20:58:44 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Church used to preach this and would not bury a person in consecrated ground if they had committed suicide. Now though they have come to realise that a person that depressed or in so much emotional anguish is ill and not evil.
I do not believe they go to hell, but then I do not believe that the God I've been taught about would do such a thing to anyone He claimed to love. God's ways are not ours true, but you can rest assured that He understands that the taking of your own life denotes extreme despair and illness.
2006-07-14 10:15:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe anyone goes to hell. If anything, this is our hell. We learn here to be better in the next life, no matter what we have been given to learn from.
You also have to think about this: If you are an ax murderer, you probably have a mental illness (much the same as your depressed suicide). Does the ax murderer go to hell? I don't think so. I think when they die they are back to a normal consciousness and probably go through hell just thinking about what they have done. But it's all for the sake of learning something. If you don't learn, you come right back here again.
I do kinda think that if you kill yourself, you haven't learned what you were supposed to learn, so you come right back to earth and start over.
[So, if you're thinking about killing yourself (not YOU personally, Asker) ask yourself, "Do I want to just deal with this now or kill myself and have to start it all over again just to get right back to where I am?"]
2006-07-14 10:22:02 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that yes, a person does. Maybe not THE hell, but almost into a misunderstanding of what happened. It's almost like a deeper depression than what they were already in. It is a selfish act, suicide. And I've lost more than my share of people I cared about to it.
2006-07-14 10:08:21 · answer #4 · answered by plcarnrike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,,,i used to think so untill i became sick with depression and took medication. I was suiciadal all the time...looking back i know that if i had followed through with it i would not have been resposible for my actions, i was not im my right mind.. You can never tell what person is thinking...you can never tell what is in their heart or intentions.
God said "thou shal not kill" but he also said "as you judge so will you be judged"
I was raised in a catholic boarding school and i am still catholic. They belive that if you kill yourself you go to hell...they will not even allow you a catholic funeral...i say dont judge...dont judge untill you have been there yourself.
2006-07-14 12:04:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that Heaven and Hell depend on an individual's belief.
For me though, I don't necessarily think that because one commits suicide, they automatically go to hell.
I think the reason for suicide would have a factor in 'where one goes'.
What if the person had been abused to the point where they felt they couldn't go on, and chose to end their life?
Would that warrant their damnation?
2006-07-14 10:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by wee_bumble_bee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think God has compassion on His children. There are many factors involved when someone takes their own life, to judge all suicides as selfishness and evil isn't really my place. The act itself is a grave wrong, but we don't know what was going on the person's head, and we can't judge their relationship with God.
2006-07-14 11:37:31 · answer #7 · answered by mury902 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know and wouldn't want to find out the hard way.
I would hope I would get the help I needed before I took such drastic measures. If I didn't seek help I would hope someone cared enough and knew I was on the brink of jumping off the edge and they would make me get help.
2006-07-14 10:12:21 · answer #8 · answered by Peanut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it depends on the mind set of the person. If they are in their right mind and choose to just do it....I think that it is just like murder. But, if someone really don't have control and they feel that they are going crazy and they aren't themselves then I think that it is just as you said. A sickness.
2006-07-14 10:11:12 · answer #9 · answered by graham cracker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe what the Holy Book says:
It says nothing about going to hell for taking our own lives.
2006-07-14 10:11:13 · answer #10 · answered by suiki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋