What does the Bible say about suicide?

Question

I am asking this Q because I am just curious. I know in church, they teach you that you will go to hell if you commit suicide.
But can there be exceptions for some people? For instance, for people who are in constant physical or mental pains (terminal illness, physical handicap, severe mental illness, trauma, etc.) and just wanna escape the pain?

Answer 1

Over 60% of people who commit suicide are suffering from clinical depression, a disease of the brain that alters one both physically and emotionally, They are often not in control of their thoughts and actions. These people are already in Hell. I should know, I suffered with clinical depression for three years and was often suicidal. Unless you can tell me what it feels like to have your body eating itself while you are still alive, I wouldn't put too much stock in the Bible.

Answer 2

The problem is that most people think that those who come to the decision of suicide do so with some sort of rational reasoning.

Personally, I find suicide for the sake of avoiding consequences wrong. Killing oneself because the bills are too much, etc. is only a means of escape.

Mental illness though is another matter. Profound depression, Bipolar disorder and such are terminal illnesses in the sense that suicide is the final symptom. People in such circumstances see themselves as a burden upon the earth, and think the only way to relieve pain, theirs and others is to end their existence.

Many people have been treated unsuccessfully with many different medications. They are convinced that nothing will work and "rationalize that the only solution is to die. Their minds have placed them in a position of hopelessness. An irrational mind cannot be held accountable for not following rational thought. In a state of hallucinations, reality itself may be bent out of the ability to understand what one is doing.

I think that those who use suicide as a mere means of escaping responsibility is one thing. Mental illness from chemical abnormality in the brain, or a result of chronic illness or pain is completely different.

Answer 3

Yes there are exceptions. As for Hell, there is no Hell. What God of LOVE would come up with such a horrible place? Certainly not my God, Jehovah. We as mere humans cannot judge how God will judge another. We need to be concerned with ourselves and know without a doubt that "God reads the Heart" and can determine a persons true intentions.

Answer 4

A very religious Rabbi that I know said that he does not consider suicide to be a sin anymore though he used to. He said this is because in today's society we understand that suicide is the often the result of a disease called depression and that the biblical justification against suicide is because in biblical times idol worshippers would sometimes sacrifice themselves as aprt of a ritual.

Answer 5

surely, whilst it somewhat is incorrect for the main section, it somewhat is pronounced interior the Bible and each so often it somewhat is incorrect and each so often it somewhat isn't any longer. Now for the tennant of your question. some, if no longer all suicides, are an entense emotional time. Many are no longer thinking of course in any respect or they does no longer bypass with the aid of with it. My Grandfather ought to no longer have killed himself if he had prevalent the way it grew to become into going to impress all individuals, yet he's ineffective and we carry on with each and all of the scars his determination left us. i in my opinion have confidence God will make his determination based on the life in the previous they killed themselves and he won't make a mistake. Oh while grew to become into suicide allowed interior the Bible? Sampson. Saul additionally dedicated suicide yet his grew to become into greater egocentric and particular led to Hell yet for his strikes no longer his death. those are the two I remember there ought to be greater, yet i won't convey them to ideas.

Answer 6

What the Bible says about Suicide

It's better to kill yourself (or have someone assist your suicide) than to be killed by a woman.

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. -- Judges 9:52-53

Suicide is a noble thing if it results in the death of your enemies (including civilians).

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. -- Judges 16:29-30

At the end of the world many will try to commit suicide to escape God's torments, but God won't let them.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. -- Revelation 9:6

Answer 7

i know jesus said it is better to commit suicide than to Hurt a child.
I also know that other books say that many people would commit suicide just to get into the lowest degrees of heaven.

Answer 8

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 9

It's considered a sin If you take your own life you will go to Hell. You will not be forgiven. Murder is also a sin. You are not suppose to take someone else's life. Not to mention it's just wrong.

Answer 10

It is a sin like all other sins...........including over eating.

I know in church, they teach you that you will go to hell if you commit suicide.
THE DO NOT teach that in very many Churches!