is it true that if you commit suicide, you go to hell? I dont believe that you do, but i was wondering what you guys thought...please only answer with serious answers...
2007-02-06 10:05:24 · 8 answers · asked by B 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why should anyone in that sad state of heart and mind be punished...that is just cruel and I hate that so many think that way.
2007-02-06 10:30:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
That is just a figure of speech or symbolical way to try to convince people it is not a good idea to commit suicide. (Humans preserve their race saying that).
If you believe in some sort of spiritual life, you may think that people "take with them" the negative feelings that would be associated with needing to commit suicide. Just a possibility.
As to knowing whether it is true, someone needs to come back from there and tell- just joking.
2007-02-06 18:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by Claire 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depending on what your faith is.
If you're Christian/orthodox, then yes, you will go to hell.
If you aren't, then no. Probably not.
Personally, I am in no way considered orthodox.
Therefore, I believe that people who commit suicide just die, like we all do someday.
2007-02-06 18:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by Charlie S. 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-07 01:24:09 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on one motive (why) for committing suicide. Please read John 15:13.
Jesus said they did not take his life; but he gave it (John 10:18).
May you receive a large pleasant surprise today to God's glory!!!!
2007-02-06 18:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. There's no such thing as hell.
2007-02-06 19:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not believe so
2007-02-06 18:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
God is the giver and taker of all life. No matter how much we hurt, no matter how bad a quality of life may seem, It is still God's call when you leave this world. We do not have that right because God owns us. It is wrong to take your life because it is not yours to take.
2007-02-06 18:32:35 · answer #8 · answered by Denise M 3 · 3⤊ 7⤋