Sin is sin, one sin can't really be considered worse than the other, the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. I believe if you ask God to forgive you before you commit it, I believe he will allow you to pass on to heaven, but either way no matter how much pain you have, suicide should never be the answer. Things should get better in the end, thats why you have to have strong will through God to get through it, because I think suicide in reality is the most cowardly way out of any situation like the one your talking about.
2007-06-18 16:51:38
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answered by Anonymous
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Hello
Well for those who don't believe in any of the religions what the heck? If you do yourseslf in for a terrible crime then you go with honour saving the tax payers lots of money. If you are just upset, weak and depressed with life then say goodbye to the world and leave it for stronger willed people. It is hard to figure how the human spirit works from people tom people. I've seen people who were reduced to skeletons in concentration camps, lost all their loved ones but keep going and start over again becoming very well to do a decade or two later yet other who fail out of med school entrance exams through to losing a boy or girlfriend do themselves in.
Many theologians think the "unforgiveable sin is not to believe in God at all, ie reject him. Suicide is tied into this sin because when you take your own life, you are essentially giving up all hope and faith in your God. more or less spitting in his face.
Many other religions other than the Judeo- Christian also condemns suicide. Islam does as well but just like James Jones in Jones town who got 900 to kill themselves, there are other false teachers in Islam that lie and brainwash their students into thinking its ok to do so. Some followers in the Hindu and Buhddist religions tell me suicide is a no no. Should youi do it you won't make the next level and have to live a similar life again.
Michael Kelly
2007-06-18 17:07:45
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answered by Michael Kelly 5
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It is my own personal belief that (even in my religion for some older crowd) the forefathers of religion based their belief of suicide as an unforgivable sin on the verse in the Bible where it says "Thou shalt not kill" and so they felt if killing yourself was the last deed you did, then you had to go to "hell". But then, also, most early Christians in general did not have the benefit of education that is widely available today, or history and travel benefits we enjoy to understand other cultures and their beliefs and even some did not really know enough about how to decifer the "big words" in their proper English KJV Bibles to realize that if you read the whole, not just the one verse, there is only one thing that is unforgivable, and that is to reject the Holy Spirit one time too many and the spirit will not bother you again, and so if you do not repent of your sins, your spirit will go to hell at death. It also was not always understood that mental illness really existed as disease as we know it today. Early Christians and even pagans believed all mentally ill were possessed by Satan. So, in their eyes, if you committed suicide, all suicidal persons went to hell in their view because mental illness was not recognized. Therefore, it must be "sin" in all cases. I believe that today, most pastors in Christianity, anyway, recognize and teach that mental illness is a disease just like any other and the person cannot help what he does if he is ill.
The question of whether the person was ill or actually in possession of his wits and realizes at death that he is committing murder is one that I will leave to God to decide for each individual at his death. We cannot possibly know what another individual is going through, only God knows this for sure.
2007-06-18 17:05:11
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answered by Possum 2
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Because the person, in committing suicide, is interfering in and altering the will of the Deity. The Deity is the creator and therefore, the one to decide when life begins and when life ends. Suicide is an unnatural end to life. And, although the person who commits suicide is out of - what we know as pain-that leaves friends and family members in even more and worse pain. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
2007-06-18 16:51:28
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answered by ? 3
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Well a long time ago the church used to believe that if you could not ask forgiveness and repent you were unclean and ungorgiven-you died before you could ask. But as the generations go on and we sudy more, we know that there is only one unpardonable sin- It is blaphemy against the holy spirit. which alot of people are doing on some of the questions. This can be found in Matthew 12:31
2007-06-18 16:50:16
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answered by debbie 4
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I don't believe suicide is an unforgiveable sin, but I do believe a person is much less likely to commit it with Christ in their lives.
And as far as it being wrong: Not only is it a reckless way of ending life God gave you, it also affects so many others. What if someone you knew committed suicide, wouldn't you be devastated?
2007-06-18 16:49:00
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answered by Anonymous
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Then, along the same lines, is driving drunk suicide? Would doing dangerous things where you could get killed be suicide? Would agreeing to a surgery that has a chance of being fatal be suicide? Is merely living suicide? Very interesting question, where the line is drawn between actually trying to take your life and merely endangering your life.
2016-05-19 05:35:57
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answered by Anonymous
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Honestly, I don't know if suicide is "unforgivable" it's one of those things we have to interpret.
There are a lot of views on this:
1.) if you give you life to God and then kill yourself, have you then stolen from God.
2.) If we're put on earth to use our gifts for his glory and we kill ourselves then what's happened here?
3.) I don't think it's every a good idea to condone suicide. (Bear in mind suicide and self-sacrifice are two different things - I say this because I know it's going to come up.
I was fellowshipping with some people tonight and this subject came up while we were talking about Judas. (Really Judas is the only suicide that comes to mind in the Bible and if he went to hell there are other reasons for it).
It's considered a sin because you're basically killing yourself without having the chance to ask for forgiveness.
This isn't in the scriptures verbatim and I don't know how to feel about it.
BD
2007-06-18 16:54:45
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answered by The Brian 4
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The Bible doesn't contain anything about it.
It does not affect the Kingly law as such - the one about loving your neighbor as yourself.
I have often wondered though that if we all had an on / off button that we ourselves only could push for a painless turnoff / death -- I do not believe one single human would be alive today in the entire world.
You have a lot of company in many not understanding why so many churches condemn this so harshly.
There is of course the problem of cowardice, the Bible does indicate that termination of one's life due to cowardice leads to damnation.
2007-06-18 16:53:59
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answered by Fuzzy 7
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I think that if a person chooses suicide, it's sad and somewhat of a waste, but it is their choice and I respect it. The reason that it's against some religions (mainly Christianity) is that it's a rejection of God's gift of life.
2007-06-18 16:50:08
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answered by Gothic Shadow 3
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