unforgivable sin?

Question

I was having a discussion with my friend and she was saying that suicide is an unforgivable sin (in Christianity) and i said well what about murder? i know this seems like a kind of dark topic but i was wondering what was worse... suicide or murder (in Christianity) and is suicide and unforgivable sin... as in does it send you straight to hell? We are both taking a religion class and the teacher told us to research it or ask other people to see what their opinion was. So if you could help it would be great!

Answer 1

That is a non existent hallucination of ill thinking

Answer 2

Killing is against The Law and IS a Sin.

Perhaps the reason your friend said that "suicide is an unforgivable sin" is only because the person committing it no longer has the option of asking for forgiveness after it is done, unlike in the case of "homicide", "murder", or "manslaughter" where repentance can still be made.

But according to the Bible, THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN is only when one turns away from, or blasphemes, the Word of God.

Peace be with you.

Answer 3

Murder and suicide is the same thing. Part of being forgiven is to confess your sins but also to make restitution as much as possible, plus you also have to repent of your sins and that would be a little bit hard if you have died. The person has committed murder by killing himself and is therefore unable to confess and make restitution.
So they would both be equal as pertaining to the unforgivable sin, besides balspheme against the Holy Ghost. Look up verses pertaining to being forgiven and repenting.

Answer 4

I have been researching how religion initiated and was developed over thousands of years.

It appears that religion' s beginnings began with basic Pagan
beliefs. Sun, moon, stars, water, earth, fire, etc.

As religion developed it became more sophistocated and was used to develop power and riches by inventing a devil, hell, sin.
and laying a guilt trip on us. A one day old baby is labeled a sinner by religions. In effect, "original sin" is a myth. Hell is a myth, heaven is a myth all to keep control of people and make them subservient to the will of "god".

I do not believe in the concept of sin. We all all human beings
with human qualities which need to be developed. In the case of suicide and murder, they are morally wrong and are not "sins" but vilation of a moral code. If a person has a terminal illness and is tired of the pain chooses to commit suicide is it a sin or
morally wrong. No, no, no. A greater good comes from the act.
When a young child (2--10) is told s/he is going to burn in the fires of hell forever if they sin, the childs concept is that they will physically burn and it may make a child be good, but it is based
on fear.
Pope John stated in one of his speeches, "there is no heaven or hell, we create hell inside us by our lack of moral considerations.
Suicide and murder are not unforgivable christion sins. Your friend had better do her homework and not be spreading rumors and myths. She has been brainwashed by her christion upbringing and again should do her investigating.
I am a spiritualist and believe what I believe. I thing religion has been a great big failure in the world. More wars, killings, and family disruptions has been created by world christianity. Look at the situation in Iraq.
I rest my case

Answer 5

Although suicide is a very bad thing, one does not necessarily go to hell for that.

The reason for that is that many people who commit suicide are under terrible stress or are suffering terrible depression, so as a result, they might not be fully responsible.

For a given objective evil, God in His judgment, takes into consideration factors such as ignorance or unavoidable compulsion.

Only the naked will to do evil can condemn one.


But the unforgivable sin is rejection of the mercy of God at the point of death.

God can forgive any sin, but if one refuses forgiveness at that point, then there is nothing that God can do.

He just has to let the person go.


Hell is not something that God created that He throws people into who defy Him, but is a description of the darkness outside of His ordering harmonious power for those who choose to walk away from Him.





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Answer 6

Many don't know why the blasphemy of the holy spirit is an unforgivable sin. James, (especially) hebrews, and Peter 1 touched upon it, even jesus did further in his parable of the talents, yet they never make the connection. Having tasted upon the heavenly gift spiritual knowledge, being enlightened and falling back to ignorance and not living what you know is the greatest of all wrongs according to the bible.

"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud" (2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV)

For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). This says there is no more sacrifice for sin, after one deliberately doesn’t apply what they know – or sin when they know.

"And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48 NKJ

Answer 7

I would say that the circumstance surrounding the sucide would determine if it was forgivable. To all the christians that quote it is unforgivable, I ask you what about Samson? He surely knew he would be killed thus commiting Sucide, there was no way out for him physically and he knew this. So he had no other choice to make in his mind. And God gave him his strength back knowing what he would do with it. So I like I said depeding on the circumstances surrounding the sucide that would all depend on whether it was forgivable. If they said God please forgive me for what I am about to do, then I think that there is some forgivness there, they surley aren't goign to do it again if they succeed...

Answer 8

A person who commits suicide murders oneself. Judas murdered himself.

Murder is forgiveable if repented. Whern one is dead one cannot repent or ask forgiveness.

If you are a christian and commit suicide there is no forgiveness because the body is the temple of /the Holy Spirit. To destory the temple is blasphemy.

If the person is unsaved and commits suicide there is no savior to intervene so same thing goes.

Answer 9

The worse sin is to turn in to the police or the FBI pedophile priests and the bishops that protect them.
This gets the molested acusers a first class ticket to hell. The Judge and jury that sends them to jail go as well.
Your religion teacher will provide you with details on request.

Answer 10

A Christian doesn't have to ask for forgiveness whenever they sin, they're already forgiven, what asking for it does is puts in the mind of the Christian that they have sinned, and they need to turn from it. If you follow Christ, you're forgiven, even if you don't ask for it. I think that someone who committed suicide who believed in Christ will get to heaven, though I don't think God will be happy to see them there early.

Answer 11

If suicide is committing a sin, it doesn't leave much opportunity for repenting.:-)

But I doubt that's real high on the list of the person doing it.