Is it true that if you kill yourself and your a saved christian that you go to hell?

Question

cuz im a saved christian and i was talking on the phone to my friend and shes a saved christian too or so she says... but i told her that i wanted to kill myself and she was like if you kill yourself your gonna go to hell even if ur a saved christian

Answer 1

well, the first guy was right, it isn't cool to kill yourself without trying. Give a little therapy, some meds a chance. If that doesn't work after a while, and you just hate every moment of every day, then go for it.

I think you can get out of the killing yourself clause if you repent before you die.....Maybe if you jump out of a plane from high enough up and throw away you're parachute, you'll be sorry before you hit the ground, and ask forgiveness before you go splat. As long as you mean it, I think you still go to heaven.

But give life a try first, depression is a chemical problem in the brain it's like a car that isn't running right, it can be tuned up and running well.

I contemplated suicide for a long time but I got over it, now I'm a morning person, and my last gf hated how optimistic I was :)

Answer 2

What I felt as a Christian was more a feeling of being safe than happiness. My belief in the Christian god made me feel that somebody was watching over me and my loved ones. I did have a hard time getting over knowing that no such god existed (I was a teen). 20+ years later, I am happier now than I've ever been. There is a strength and a confidence in knowing I can handle most things life throws at me. Do I want to believe in a deity? I don't care one way or the other. It's a waste of time for me to even think about it (it's analogous to wondering how life would be if I were a unicorn).

Answer 3

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.