If God doesn't give you more troubles than you can handle, why do some people commit suicide?

Question

No, I AM NOT suicidal. I've read this statement more than a few times here, and heard it spoken many times in day to day life. What do you think about this?

Bravo, Erin J:-)

Answer 1

Wow. I hope that no one suicidal reads such hateful comments that have been posted here. It's obvious that most of the posters here have never felt any real burden - such as the death of a close loved one, the torment of being homeless and ill, the fear at finding you're HIV positive, or any other intensely frightening or saddening experience.

I think people commit suicide because life becomes too much for them. I do not believe in God, nor do I believe that there is a balancing force that makes sure your life doesn't become more hard than you can handle. A balancing force like that wouldn't allow people to be experimented on by Dr. Mengele, wouldn't force survivors to eat their dead like the Donner party, wouldn't allow people to slowly waste away and die from anthrax or smallpox. Any one of those things would be reason enough to end this life in favor of oblivion - and if you disagree, I'm sure we can find a Nazi medical doctor somewhere who would love your fortitude in enduring his experiments as he'd save a fortune on suicide-watch precautions.

Answer 2

OK: Judging from your many posts, it seems as if you are very seriously contemplating suicide. Please don't do it! I know that it's a trite statement, but I will say it anyway: Suicide is a permanent solution to a very temporary problem. There is no viable scenario that suicide is a reasonable option. To rationalize suicide as some sort of message from God is very wrong and any way that you try to justify it bibically is without merit. The Ten Commandments provide "Thou shalt not kill." That applies to killing others as well as yourself. God would not instruct you to go against His commands. Also, it is true that God will not give you more burdens than you can bear. Whatever you're going through or dealing with will only be there for a season, and if it is permanent, God will provide for you in a non-lethal way. All life that God creates is precious, including yours. Even if you don't value yourself, think of the people around you that will be affected by you ETERNALLY cancelling yourself out of their lives. You would be surprised of the effect that this would have on EVERYONE that you've ever met. This is really traumatic stuff. Please get help!

Answer 3

What is impossible with man is not impossible with God. Many people can only see their troubles from where they are. They see no other solution. When Moses and the Jews stood at the Red Sea with the Pharaoh coming up at their backs, there seemed to be no solution to their dilemma. However God made a way where there was no way, simply because Moses believed that God was directing them, even when the people didn't. If no one believed. I am sure that those who commit suicide do so because they don't believe that God can help. Even Christians who have committed suicide have decided in their minds that God cannot fix their problems.

Answer 4

Because they don't feel like putting up with having to handle the situation. suicide is an easy way out of a problem. they think, well if i'm dead then i won't have to do ________. they don't want to work through their issues. some people put themselves in certain situations also. for example, if God tells a person not to have sex before marriage and he/she does it anyway and catches an incurable disease and commits suicide, then that's that person's fault. God 's way of keeping that person was to give them knowledge that they chose to ignore. Of course there are many more ways to catch incurable diseases through no fault of ones own, this is just the easiest example that i could come up with at the time.

Answer 5

Most people who commit suicide have a mental problem. Such as Bi polar disorder, depression.

Some may not have any belief or faith in God to help them to combat their health problems. Even with faith, it is a constant battle that they have to fight, because their highs are so high and their lows are so low. That's were having good friends to encourage you and keep tabs on you also helps. Which is what a true christian should do for their fellow brother or sister.
"There exist companions disposed to break one another to pieces, but there exists a friend sticking closer than a brother"
Prov. 18: 24

Answer 6

I believe the scripture is referring to temptation. It also says the God provides a way of escape. Just because God provides that way, doesn't mean someone who is feeling desperate enough to commit suicide will look for it.

Answer 7

God didn't give the person the troubles, many times our problems are self induced. God could have helped the person if the person reached out to Him. Most people who commit suicide are sick or very selfish.

Answer 8

maybe they commit suicide because they have had enough of this world, i know my friend commit ed suicide and he was a sold-out christian and he just couldn't take his friends and his step-father calling him useless and telling him he would never amount to anything. I prayed about it and i believe that he is in heaven rt now whether you think that ppl that commit suicide go to heaven or not i think he did.

Answer 9

I think it's all of the guilt induced by religion.

It couldn't help but make you despise yourself.

PS. I noticed that a lot of the answers were blaming Satan. I guess in a way I'm saying the same thing in a slightly different way.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

I personally feel 1 Cor. 10:13 is one of the most misquoted, misused passages in the Bible. It actually does not guarantee Christians will be supernaturally protected from unbearable testing, as some would have us believe. The example you've given is proof of that.

First, let's look at 1 Cor. 10:1-13 so we can review its context:

1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

First, Paul describes Jews who were tested by God to see which ones truly believed and which ones had no faith. The ones without faith were killed in the desert.

Second, Paul gives us the keys to understanding verse 13 in verses 6 - 10: that the believer is given supernatural strength to endure temptations of FAITH, even if those temptations (tests) are more than most others could bear. These tests include lust, evil, idolatry, sexual immorality and testing God's authority.

Third, Paul cautions us in verse 12 that any of us who think we're strong without God are kidding ourselves. In other words, God tells us we are supposed to rely upon Him completely for all things, including strength during our times of testing.

Forth, Paul explains at verse 13 that the tests the Corrinthians have gone through are not new to humankind, even though Christianity was new at that time. God can still strengthen them through these tests, IF they relied upon Him completely.

So are suicidal thoughts a test from God? ABSOLUTELY NOT. God loves us and would NEVER cause us to have such thoughts. We know this because suicidal ideation doesn't STRENGTHEN faith, it destroys it. Therefore, we can know such things come from the "father of lies," Satan. (I do acknowledge that suicidal thoughts and actions can be caused by mental illness. I am not suggesting mental illness is always caused by Satan.)