Why is suicide sin in many religions.? It seems like some religions say it, to support their religion and?

Question

to attract people to their faith.

Answer 1

We come into this life not by choice. We are then given relationships, challenges, happiness, strengths and weaknesses. What does all this reflect? Is this all a random occurrence or is there a purpose to life?

Every single soul which comes to earth has a resposibility. He/She has to fulfill her responsibilities. Committing suicide temporarily reliefs a soul of its responsibilty but the soul has to return to fulfill even more responsibilities later on.

Suicide is a sin in the favour of the soul. It is regarded a sin to avoid any soul having to suffer a worse fate in the afterlife and in the next birth.

Answer 2

Although suicide is a sin, it is no bigger a sin than any other sin.
Lieing, stealing, etc. are sins too and most people do these things ! Religions like to play suicide up in the same category as sexual sin. This gives these types of sins a glitter of somehow, being the worst sins. Sin is sin and all sin is against God. God makes a way available to people to have their sins cleaned up. This comes through his son, Jesus Christ, who paid the "sin bill" for all humans ever born. The real Good News is that ALL humans will one day, have their time and turn to come to Jesus and accept His offering for their sins. (Yes; Even, loved ones who committed suicide will have a chance to participate too !)

Sorry "Super Hero" - I beg to differ from you !!!

Answer 3

jeros- what you see as religion ( happy happy joy joy) isn't what I see as religion (sad sad hate hate ) which is part of the problem. I will admit religion or religious people in the name of religion do some good ( bringing food to people ) but I also see the bad. You admit the same things but think the good outweighs the bad ( especially if you count in the whole heaven thing and conveniently ignore the whole hell thing ).Suffering , if God exists, IS Gods fault b/c He's omnipotent. Much the same way if you let your child play with a nest of ants and she gets covered with antbites it's your fault she suffers.'Isn't that hypocritical?/yes, it is' - why do you ask if you're just going to answer?- As for hating religion, you have to understand why we hate religion (and not ALL religion and not even all christianity. Not the Amish for example )- It's because we define it as just about the worst thing to ever exist. We see it as a hindrance to scientific progress and thus the curing of diseases and the creation of more fertile farming techniques and on and on. Science has a proven track record of helping mankind. Religion doesn't. Religion has a track record of helping start wars and oppression. Science doesn't. So, you see Strawberry Shortcake and we see the monster from the Aliens movies.

Answer 4

I am honestly yet to discover something about suicide (In terms of being a sin) in the Bible...

however, with the relationship with God I have now I would never think of such a thing while God still has plans for my life here on Earth

Answer 5

Catholics believe suicide when committed in full knowledge and deliberate consent is a complete turning away from God (a mortal sin) and will send a person to hell.

There are 3 conditions of a mortal sin: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent.

While suicide (or any kind of murder) is always a grave matter, people who commit suicide may not always have full knowledge of what they're doing. Drugs can definitely impair one's thinking, as can other things, such as diseases, intense pain, or anguish.

Therefore, suicide is not automatically treated as a mortal sin.

We are commanded by Christ not to judge others so we leave final judgment to God who alone knows each person's heart.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

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.”

Answer 7

Suicide is considered a sin so as to encourage people not to commit suicide. Often, whatever one is suicidal over, it will pass.

Answer 8

Suicide is a GREAT sin that is forbidden in all religions, it leads to Hell
Becouse suiciding is an objection on the destiny that God created to ur life, so when u don't accept that destiny, God will punish u & enters u Hell

Answer 9

I can't answer for other religion. In Christianity, our body is the temple of God. So we have to take care of it.

Whether it attracts people or not, I don't know nor do I care. I only know that it's good and sound wisdom to myself.

Don't you think so?

Answer 10

Over 60% of suicide victims are suffering from clinical depression, a chemical unbalance of the brain that leaves the individual with little to no control of their thoughts, and thus, their actions.

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