If a person commited suicide, they will go to hell?

Question

I've heard explanations from all sorts of people. I want to know what other people think...

Answer 1

God is a God of just He will give everyone alive a fair chance to except him and get salvation.

a person that commits suicide is a person that has turn it's back from God for if he was Christian then there is no reason for him to commit suicide for he believes in Jesus Christ. and if he believes in Jesus Christ then that would mean that he knows that God will help him and he will Indore the gift of life (not go and kill himself).

A person that commits suicide is a person full of sin, a person that has no fear of God for if he did he would know that God is the one that gave you the breath of life and only he has the right to take it away.

The Bible tells us you shall not kill - so what makes you think that by killing your self it will pleas God? When he states " I cam to bring life, life in abundance"

Think about it. seek God and study the Bible and you shall see.

God Bless

Answer 2

The belief that suicides go to hell is an old tradition and doctrine of the Catholic church. It is not in the Bible. Furthermore, nobody but God knows where another person's soul is headed. Also, someone who kills himself may be mentally ill and therefore may not have much clear choice in the matter. God looks at the heart. I believe each suicide has a chance if they had a God-seeking heart. It is not for us to decide. We don't see everything.

"When a man who has been perverted from his youth does some tiny little kindness and thereby perhaps risks being sneered at, he may, in God’s eyes, be doing more than I would do if I gave up life itself for a friend. Put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may in fact have made so little use of a good heredity and upbringing that we are worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit and then with the bad upbringing and then with the power say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on what he is given at all but on what he has done with it. Most of the man’s psychological make-up is probably due to his body. When his body dies, all that will fall off him. The thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of his material will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then see, for the first time, see everyone as he really was. There will be surprises.

Answer 3

According to the Bible, whether a person commits suicide is not what determines whether he or she gains entrance into heaven. If an unsaved person commits suicide, he or she has done nothing but “expedite” his or her journey to the lake of fire. However, the person who committed suicide will ultimately be in hell for rejecting salvation through Christ, not because he or she committed suicide.
I do not believe that a Christian who commits suicide will lose salvation and go to hell. The Bible teaches that from the moment a person truly believes in Christ, he or she is eternally secure (John 3:16). According to the Bible, Christians can know beyond any doubt that they possess eternal life no matter what happens. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13).

Answer 4

Repenting is an important part of forgiveness. When we repent in our hearts for sins we commit, God forgives us. The trouble with suicide (a sin) is that you cant repent afterwards. You can say you repent before but its how sincere can it be if you go ahead and do it still.

Some smart aleck will say 'well if you repent sincerely in the fleeting moments before your soul leaves your body are you forgiven?' That answer, is unknowable. Its ultimately up to the Lord but why would you bet your life down to the last roll like that?

I have a relative who lived a horrible life of drugs and violence. He was shot about a year ago and died minutes later. My family consoled themselves by saying he made his peace with God before he died. Did he? Do we know that? Was he even in his right mind? My sister was in a car accident and accidentally killed a girl who ran a stop sign and jumped out into traffic. The girl was killed instantly. If SHE didnt know the Lord, did she have time in that split second to accept Christ? Who knows...and who would want to risk where they spend eternity trying to guess?

Bottom line, suicide is a choice that you may not get an opportunity to 'take back'.

Answer 5

To commit suicide is breaking an Old Covenant rule. Under the New Covenant salvation is primarily a work of Christ on our behalf, we receive it through faith. We then become righteous through the presence of God in our lives. It is probably possible to lose salvation through rejecting Christ after salvation (so we are told to make sure we mature in 2 Peter and other verses), but I think suicides are normally desperately depressed and not thinking straight; can't see them being cast aside for one foolish decision at a time when they are just not thinking straight.
As for suicides when people are in excruciating pain, I can't believe thats a damnable offence.

Not a great witness in heaven though; a person who had truly developed in their faith would not do it.

Answer 6

A person who takes their life, is obviously at the end the line in their head. Now is that a sin? To be pushed up against the wall till you see no other way out? I guess god would judge the person as a whole. Not on one act. And there ain't no Hell.

Answer 7

They will certainly not receive the promises or blessings of God, that He has planned for this person while living. Having not repented of sins, this person will carry the sins with him after death. This person actually turns his back on God by taking his own life, and hence God will have no choice but to "cast thee off forever." He will certainly not be able to kingdom of Heaven. Where will his spirit go? To a place where the spirit be wrapped up in the sin of mind - that is a Hell in itself.

"Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Matthew 18:18 KJV

"For the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." 1 Chronicles 28:9 KJV

Answer 8

I think God will have to decide. Those who commit suicide are hardly ever thinking clearly....they are in pain emotionally and nothing is going right in their life and they think by taking their life it will make the pain go away. If they are going to hell because they are in such emotional pain then God is not being just. He knows our hearts he knows their emotional state when they take their life for whatever the reason may be. But i personally don't believe those who are emotinally sick when they take their life will go to hell.

Answer 9

No, i do no longer have faith that a individual is going to hell in the event that they dedicate suicide yet I do have faith that they placed their households with the aid of hell and consequently that's a egocentric act. i think in reincarnation a hundred% as i think i grow to be reincarnated as I keep in mind issues from a prior existence. i do no longer have faith that the way you die has something to do with what happens afterwards

Answer 10

Well, if you believe in Karma, reincarnation, and life lessons, a person who commits suicide places him/herself at risk for having to repeat a similar incarnation if the life lesson had not had a chance to be completed. If it was a bad life, then they are committing themselves to a rerun in their personal Hell.