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Question

Does it say anywhere in the Bible that if you commit suicide that you are condemned to hell I have always thought so since Jesus died We really spiritually don't have a right to take our life but looking for confirmation or better yet the truth Please respond with Bible references. I will study with other commentaries, books, concordances ects

I couldn't find any either and my pastor said the same thing y'all are but still always questioned in the back of my head I don't do studies on suicide very often was just wondering

I couldn't find any either and my pastor said the same thing y'all are but still always questioned in the back of my head I don't do studies on suicide very often was just wondering

but still if you commit suicide how will you ask for forgiveness

Answer 1

The way I've heard it explained is:

1. suicide is murder, because you are killing a human being, and therefore a sin.

2. All sin (except blasphemy against the spirit) is forgivable, therefore, murder is forgivable, but you have to be alive to ask for forgiveness. You can't ask for forgiveness before you sin, if you know you're going to sin before you do it, you shouldn't do it.

3. if you've murdered yourself, you cannot ask for forgiveness.

4. If you are unforgiven, you can't go to heaven, leaving only one other destination.

Answer 2

Dear Mimi,

I can't give you Bible references for that because the Bible does not say that suicide sends you to hell. The only thing that does that is failing to believe in Jesus.

John 3:16-19
3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

Acts 4:12
"And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

Jesus died voluntarily, but it was hardly suicide. Heros who jump on grenades to save their comrades are not classified as suicides, or they would not be heros.

John 10:17-18
17 "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father."

I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

First we need to get a clear understanding of the word hell.
Read Ecc. 9:5 .............

So, since the “dead know nothing more,” or as the King James Version says, “the dead know not any thing,” it would be impossible for them to know conscious torment. And since there is no work in hell, how can there be activity, red-hot or otherwise?


Remember, after the prophet Jonah had been swallowed by a big fish, Jonah prayed: “I cried out of the belly of hell [Sheol]: and thou hast heard my voice.” (Jonas 2:3) Was it red-hot where Jonah was? No, it must have been damp and dark, although warm at fish-body temperature. Jonah spoke the way he did because he understood hell or Sheol to be the grave. For, had not God delivered him, the fish’s belly would certainly have become Jonah’s grave. If hell were eternal, Jonah would not have gotten out.

Job was a faithful servant of God. Trying to break Job’s integrity, the Devil placed Job in a miserable state of affairs. So the suffering Job prayed to God: “Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell [Sheol], and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (Job 14:13) Since Job was already being tormented by the Devil, would he pray to be “protected” in, of all places, a Devil-managed compartment of red-hot coals? Hardly!

Job would not pray to go from the frying pan into the fire! Job understood hell to be the common grave of mankind where he would rest until the resurrection.

So when we all die, we go to the grave or hell. But as for committing suicide, we must remember like you said, Jesus died for us, so that would not be appreciating the gift or ransom he gave us. Also look at 1Corinthians 10:13- God will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear- So whatever we are going through he knows we can bear it.

Answer 4

We should pity the tortured soul that feels as if taking their life is the only way to end their pain. I would think God would have mercy on the guy that lost his wife, his kids, and his arms and legs in a bad car accident. Could you blame him? Now the guy that goes into a busy shopping center and mows down rows of people then takes his own life at the end of his spree... well you can see the difference.

Answer 5

I have never seen a verse that specifically states this, but if you look logically at sin and repentence -

"Thou shalt not kill"...if you kill someone, you have a chance at redemption if you repent, like the guys in prison usually do.

But if you commit suicide, you have killed and have no way to repent for it.

That's as close as I can get for you, but then I'm not a Christian, just going on what I remember from when I was...

Answer 6

no,

it comes from catholic traditional dogma and like many other dogmatic items of the catholic church there is no biblical standing for it. Many will call it self murder ect.... however the only unforgivable sin is balspheming the holy spirit. salvation is permenant, you cant do any works to recieve it and you cant do any works to lose it. That being said I would have trouble believing that suicide would be the action of a person who has put theie faith in god.

Answer 7

I'm not sure where in the Bible is says that you are condemned but in my opinion is that the Bible says Thou shall not kill and also it also talks about repenting from sin in order to be forgiven. If you kill yourself how can you ask for forgiveness?
This is just my interpretation...?

Answer 8

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.

A resurrection to life on a paradise earth will furnish this former criminal (and other unrighteous ones) a golden opportunity to be judged by what they do after their resurrection.—1 John 4:8-10.

Stunned friends of a suicide victim may thus take comfort in knowing that “Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him. For he himself well knows the formation of us, remembering that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:10-14) 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.”—See Ecclesiastes 7:7.
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.—2 Kings 21:16; 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13.
Thus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” 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.”—Matthew 20:28; Acts 26:20.

Life is a gift from God, not something to be abused or to end at one’s own hand. (James 1:17) Hence, 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.—Job 14:14, 15.
Love strengthens our recognition that suicide—though evading one’s own burdens—only heaps more problems on loved ones left behind. As far as the one who rashly took his own life is concerned, we humans cannot judge as to whether he will get a resurrection or not. How reprehensible was he? God alone searches ‘all hearts and every inclination of the thoughts.’ (1 Chronicles 28:9) But we may be confident that ‘the Judge of all the earth is going to do what is loving, just, and right!’—Genesis 18:25.

Answer 9

But if you actually believe, why would you commit suicide?! I mean, wouldn't you want to praise God for as long as you can? Then you can be saved and learn more and have more experiences and help younger ones and try to be a greater Overcomer (Revelations.)

Answer 10

Suicide is murder. Only God can give and take away life. If anyone else takes a life, theirs or smeone else's, it is murder.