As a Christian,if a believer commits suicide will they still enter heaven?

Answer 1

Those who are adamant that a person who takes his life is committing a mortal sin, and will go to hell, are basing their belief on church doctrine rather than on the Bible. Scripture is silent on the subject. There are no verses that say “He who takes his own life shall be damned.” According to Scripture, only one sin does not have forgiveness, and that is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. That means there is forgiveness for every other sin.

Some quote 1 Corinthians 3:17, which says that God will destroy someone who “defiles” the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yet, there is disagreement about what it means to defile the temple.
Does this include suicide? Does it include illicit drug abuse (slow suicide), prescription drug
abuse, cigarettes (deliberately breathing in poisons that will eventually kill), tattoos, over-eating (digging a grave with your spoon), or alcohol abuse?

God forbid that we add to the pain of someone who has lost a loved one through the
tragedy of suicide, by making a judgment about their eternal destiny. God is the ultimate Judge,
and we should therefore leave the issue in His hands. It would be wise to follow the biblical example and not come to any verdict in the case of suicide.

Answer 2

There was a time, prior to the understanding of mental illness, that the Christians believed those who took their own life, which is murder of the self, could not enter heaven any easier than one who murdered someone else.

But that teaching was cast aside hundreds of years ago.

below are some links to a site about suicide and what diffrent denominations teach.

Answer 3

The idea that suicides wind up in hell, do-not-pass-go-directly-to, hearkens back to times before mental health was well understood. Persons who committed suicide were seen as wilfully destroying God's gift of life and rejecting God's gift of grace in a final, incontrovertible way.

Most contemporary Christians understand most suicidal people to be mentally ill -- in despair because they are clinically depressed; and clinical depression, while it certainly has situational triggers, is an organic disease, like diabetes or hypertension. At least in my faith tradition, our inclination would be to commend the souls of these hurting people into the hands of a loving and gracious God whom we believe is willing and able to save us no matter what.

Answer 4

For the record and the gentleman above the Catholic Church does not say all suicides go to hell. It states we do not know as only God can judge a persons soul and state of mind. It depends on the person and the circumstances.I believe that God is far more merciful than most of us believe.

Answer 5

I hope this isn't a personal enquiry about someone you know. Suicide is determined as the epitome of despair, and despair is a sin because it means you have lost hope that God can ever help you. Traditionally this is seen as casting the suicide into hell. But its a heartless and wicked judgement upon someone who has already fallen to such depths, and cruel in the extreme for Christians to tell the relatives of the dead that their loved one's soul is damned, at such a terrible time. You should ask yourself whether a loving god could punish someone already in such torment, or whether instead he could put aside his ego and feel the sort of sympathy as those the dead person left behind.

Answer 6

If they are a believer, yes. Samson "committed suicide" and is mentioned in the book of Hebrews in the faith chapter (I'm not condoning suicide), however, when you're saved, your sins, past, present and future are forgiven. You HAVE eternal life.

P.S. I hope you don't know any Christians who are considering this?

Answer 7

Tough one. Some say no, but I have a tough time believing that when suicide results from illness.

Answer 8

No suicide is wrong. It is regarded as even worse than murder of somebody else. But in some cases I can see it as justified. But not just because you are depressed, there is help for that.

Answer 9

Someone who'd actually do that kind of thing is not at all well by heart, mind, or soul. I have a hard time believing that the unwell would be punished.

Answer 10

I personally don't think so, but it's up to God to judge. Just remember that God never gives us anything we can't handle, so there is never a reason to commit suicide. It's incredibly, selfish, too, and God calls for us to be selfless, not selfish.