Do you think people with depression that kill themselves go to Hell?

Question

It's a sin to kill youself right? But is that fair for people with depression. Depression is not fun, I know from experience, I just felt like crying all the time and like I had nothing to live for and I thought about killing myself a lot. Luckily I'm better now. But yeah anyway, I mean with depressed people should they be blamed for killing themselves when its not really their fault. Would God not forgive them?

Answer 1

i wouldnt want to venture a guess .. all i know is a person needs to accomplish good in this life and learn to be selfless .. killing urself is being selfish really and not rising above it ... not trusting in God ... if anything u give up opportunities to do Gods work, opportunities that He gave you ... its just bad but i wouldnt go so far as to be a judge and say u would go to hell ..

Answer 2

I had a choice, kill myself, or let God or 'the God's' or whatever it was have a chance. So I gave the God's a chance. Whenever I started to get down on myself, I remembered that I put myself on the paths of the Gods.

A little later I was presented with the Biblical idea about God. . . from a barber. And then eventually, when I was all alone, confessed to God that I was a sinner, and declared that I belived that Jesus rose from the dead.

Before I went through that ( I'm leaving out what happened after I did that) , I would not have been covered by the sacrifice that Jesus made for me. I suppose that if I killed myself now that I would be still saved.

I am not persuaded that anyone who commits suicide is automatically sent to Hell. I think that it's between God and that person. I know what the Roman Catholics say, but I disagree with many things that they say.

Answer 3

I know what you mean, I've had my bout with depression also.
Medication didn't do anything but put me to sleep...I suppose you could say that while I was asleep, at least I was not depressed, but I didn't see that as being an answer I could accept.
The only thing that really did help me to climb out of the darkness was prayer. Really and truly.
I don't believe that God cannot forgive suicide, but then, I am not in God's place, to make that, or any other judgement.
That is completely up to God...He can see a person's heart, as I never could.

Answer 4

Over the last five years I had begun to have increasingly withdraw into a downward spiral of depression..

But now with the method I can fully focus my energy and thoughts into a decisive line on how to make my life better constantly. And it works like magic! I'm beginning to attract people to me once again and things have just been looking up since then.

Helping you eliminate depression?

Answer 5

This is a good question.

I often think about this same thing because of a personal experience. My boyfriend killed himself five years ago. Since then, I have these recurring dreams in which he tries to have conversations with me. In each dream, I'm walking through a narrow corridor in a house with burgundy carpets and walls, which resembles the house he grew up in. I always find him sitting on the carpet in the living room. He stares at me with this mournful expression, and then tries to talk to me about something really mundane, but I can never open my mouth in the dream. I have this dream at least once a month, and each time, he says to me right before I wake up "I'm so lonely. Don't forget to come back."

I guess that doesn't really answer your question, but I always refused to believe that he was in hell, so I used these dreams to conjure up this idea that he was really stuck in some otherworldly replica of his childhood home, where all his problems with depression began, and that was like his purgatory. I know it sounds silly, but these are the kinds of things you think of when you love someone...you never want to picture them in Hell, especially when you know how troubled they were on Earth, and you just wish they would find peace.
I really hope God forgives people who are burdened by unbelievable sadness.

Answer 6

The only sin the Word of God says that you cannot get forgiveness for is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Whatever means you leave this earth, as long as there is breath in your body, I believe you can ask God for forgiveness and He will grant it. However, true people of God do not kill themselves. There may be times when they feel like it but they don't actually go thru with it. However, just as I stated before, as long as there is breath in your body, you can ask for forgivenss but who is to say if you will have enough breath once you shoot yourself or can think of it once you just from a 10 story building, etc. May God Bless U.

Answer 7

The Lord will never allow us to suffer more than we can handle.

I believe most of us have been depressed and perhaps suicidal at one time or the other. You are not alone in this. :)

The way I believe is that if you take your life, you do not have the opportunity to ask for forgiveness. You have committed murder without recourse.

The best course of action is to stop being self-centered. When we become so focused on our selves, we are self centered. Time to refocus and look to Yahsua, Jesus the Christ. We are fallible, sinful human beings who make poor choices...otherwise we would not have been in need of a Saviour.

Suicide is self serving, as it completely leaves out the people who love us. We are only concerned with what we feel - how are we going to cope with whatever is going in in our lives, without thinking about how our loved ones will feel - how they will cope.

So...anyway...yes it is a sin and no it is not forgivable.

Mt 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. (30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Answer 8

life is something that can't b reversed and such a lil mistake of suicide may b the worse so no dont take any chances.
ppl here say that they will go to hell and they dont care or whatever . if they dont care then why dont they burn their body now as it will b same in hell too. but i kno they wont burn their body bcuz they know its painful so if they cant bear this burning pain now how will they bear it later.?
just dont listen to them they r losers and wish to see others as losers like themselves too.

and no its a sin whether u do it in depression or whatever. so all u have to do is just bear it bcuz problems are meant to b solved and they fly away one day all u have to do is ask help from GOD
take care

Answer 9

No.

I think God makes suicides go back and relive their lives over until they end up dying of some other cause.

God gives us one life, I believe that life is spiritual. Even if it is only one Physical life, that does not mean God cannot send you through it multiple times.

Yes, I know, I will take a lot of flack about this belief from nut cases in every conceivable religion on earth. What else is new.

Answer 10

God's grace covers a multitude of sin. That is why Jesus came here to die in our place. What a blessing it would be for those who haven't depended on Him to know and depend on Him for their security and joy.

I believe that Hell is for those who just plain reject Him (Blasphemy of the Spirit). He won't make anyone live eternally with Him if they don't want to. God knows each person's heart. He loves us. He will make the decisions.