Isn't suicide a sin........?

Question

I dont know but I think that would suck if you've been living the crappiest life and it's not your fault you try to do your best and be strong but that doestn't work so they kill themselves to have peace and be with god and then all of a sudden your in hell. Thats not right.

YEAH!!? well what if they also lived in New Orleans.

Answer 1

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 2

Suicide is a sin. It happens one of the sins that you may not be forgiven for. You have a choice, if you decided to kill your self,you can't turn around and ask God's forgiveness. "gee,I'm sorry that I tried to play you." If you look closely into a suicide's life,you may find out that they were not truly close to God. They are drug users and have not lead a godly life. Is it fair that people that try to do right be on the same level as those that don't?

Answer 3

Suicide is self murder. Murder is a sin. How do you know you are living the crappiest life. Did you not get something you wanted? You think your life is bad? Walk through the Barrio, the skid row, go to the missions, go to New Orleans. Stop pi$$ing an moaning.

Answer 4

The Bible doesn't say that suicide is a sin although in most cases it does fit the definition of sin meaning to "miss the mark" of God's perfect will. In most cases suicide is the result of mental illness and/or depression and it may also have a spiritual component to it since Satan and his host of evil spirits are described as murderers and destroyers and they want to kill people who are created in God's image.

So it's rather doubtful that God would hold someone accountable for dying as a result of being sick or succumbing to a spiritual assault. That having been said, except in rare instances where all avenues of prayer and medical treatment have been tried and suicide seems to be the only way to end a person's suffering, it is most often the wrong solution to a situation and therefore it's not in God's will for people to take their own lives although that wouldn't disqualify them from being with Him in Heaven in and of itself.

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Ephesians 2:4-9

Answer 5

Tough one. Once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you are forgiven, but nowhere in the bible does it say you will be perfect. In fact, it says you can not be. Only Jesus lived a perfect life. The hope would be that once a person does become a Christian, they can see the hope for their life in Jesus Christ. We are all human though, in the end, so we do things against Christ, but nothing can seperate you from the Lord once you have accepted him. I think this includes suicide.

Answer 6

Suicide victims are judged individually by God. Only he knows their hearts and state of mind when they committed the act. It is not universally believed that suicide is automatically a sin. I am Catholic and the Church does not condemn them.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

We don't have the insight that God has. We don't know what is ahead so we shouldn't have the power to decide when a life is worthless. Even if it is our own. When we try to do Gods job without his consent, we fail.

Answer 9

Yes because you can't ask for God's forgiveness.

Answer 10

yes..God don't forgive those who comitts suicide..that's one of the ten commandments Thou shalt not kill