suicide?? thoughts on what happens after...heaven ...hell...???

Question

My aunt commited suicide 2 days ago. That is 3 close family members in my life and I am 30. She actually did it the day before I posted a yahoo question about my own anxiety. We have severe depression issues within my family. I have my own religious beliefs and would never go that far now though I have thought about it in the past at serious low points. Your thoughts...anyone know any direct references from the bible. Though I have had the same beliefs for years, you find yourself questioning them when it is this kind of situation.

Answer 1

This is a very terrible time you are going through. I will say that some people have answered what I believe, but I will not stress it at this time. You have heard enough, I don't think it would make things any better for you at this time. I will leave you with one scripture. It will give you something to think on.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

My spirit hurts with you. May the Lord give you peace of mind.

Answer 2

I really hate to speculate on this one. Its a scary thing to think about. By the way, I am a Christian and have been for a long time. While most would say suicide would condemn a person, I'm not going to say. But I can offer you my personal experience. After being terribly disabled (after 3 gun shots to the head) and waking without vision or the ability to walk, I thought about it. It was a scary time, though I have regained most of my vision, and am able to walk now. While I wouldn't ever condone suicide, I think you probably need to come to your own conclusion on the matter. Considering the mental disorder, I would hate to go condemning your aunt.

Answer 3

(John 5:28-29) 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
We will have a chance to live again and hopefully God will forgive us for all the past mistakes and the ones we make everyday. No one is perfect and when we are sick we can make some foolish choices.

Answer 4

We should do all that we can not to stand before the Lord with any kind of sin. I hope that you can find some kind of comfort in knowing that your Aunt stands before a Righteous Judge. I would plead with you to go on the attack mode with this spirit of depression. It is time for it to leave your Family and the Oil of Gladness to take its place. This might require a Spiritual and a Physical attack on it.Please read these scriptures Psalms 45:7 and Hebrews 1:9

I was so caught up in depression about 7 years ago that I could not make any kind of a decision. All I could do was cry. I hated the taught of being faced with a decision. My church family thought I needed to repent. So did I, as a matter of fact thats all I could do. I finally went to a Doctor, he put me on a Antidepressant. I tried about four of them before it finally worked. It was then that i could start making good Spiritual decisions for me and my family. I will put you on my prayer list, God Bless You all !!

Answer 5

The Bible says there is only one unpardonable sin, and I believe that to be blasphemy against the holy spirit, Not accepting Christ.

The Bible also tells us that God is able to keep us.

When we are suffering severe depression, we aren't ourselves. We feel guilt, because we are made to believe if we had enough faith, we wouldn't be depressed. Nonsense.

Committing suicide is a sin, just like a lot of other sins that people commit as far as punishment.

You are not lost by commiting suicide, but you do loose rewards.

Believe me I have been there and done that, I have dealt with depression all my life. But , giving up , just isn't in me because if I give up on myself, I feel like I am giving up on God.

Make sure you see a doctor and keep on top of your depression..

Answer 6

When my son is disobedient, he is still my son. I Love Him. Period. If you can lose your salvation, then God didn't answer Jesus prayer in John 17:15 and v20 and v24.
Jesus uses the terminology "everlasting life" 8 times in the Gospel of John.
God promised eternal life to those who accept Him as Christ, and a promise cannot be conditional and eternal at the same time. A promise is based on the One who makes it. There is not one scriptural example of anyone being saved twice.
Even our secular court system recognizes a difference between involuntary manslaughter and premeditated murder. If you accidently slide into someone walking across the highway in a blinding snowstorm because you didn't see them and they were walking because their car just slid off in the ditch, and you kill them, the prosecutor is not going to treat you as if you just shot them in a bar fight, and neither is the jury.
I pray God grant you peace, not of this world, but of his spirit

Answer 7

I am a Christian. I believe the only sin that is not forgiven, is the denial of accepting Jesus as savior. As humans we make mistakes, and are to repent of our sins and to turn away from them.

I do not believe suicide is going to send someone to hell. A good friend of mine had a dad who took his life in late February. He had a very bad disease that was in the late stages. His wife left and came home and found three letters. One letter was addressed to her, and the other two to his sons. I was friends with his oldest son. His letters told them how much he loved them, and he could not put them though this anymore.

I do not like people take their lives, because there is not a lot of closure.

I don't remember anything mentioning that Judas was not going to spend eternity in hell.

The Bible does say "Thou shall not murder." though, which suicide is murder to yourself.

I am not one to believe if you die with unforgiven sin, you will go to hell, inless it is the one of denying Christ.

Peace be with you in this time of mourning.
Ecclesiastes 3

Answer 8

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.”

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.

Answer 9

Dont get upset we all feel that way..
when the declaration of independance was written
and they gave you that jones act for your back pocket
they still have not come across with the
Truth
HOW COME I WORK AND YOU DONT,,,????
Me first before You ...!!!! Get Back in the Back of that LINE!!
got nothing to do with Religion its called Justice,,,!!!
on time and they still Have not Arrived...
whom suppose to Dock them ????with this cause for IDENTITY ?????And this fanatical explotation of WAR
AND depression no respect for the youth no resect for home and Country you print suicide every day you get up for breakfast lunch and dinner to eat its infestation on the
I .D.ES "s dont fret stay strong sooner or later
it will come to a halt i know i lived it several times
history in the making JACK!!!

Answer 10

I don't believe that people go to hell, especially for suicide. No person does that unless they are very ill. I am so sorry for your loss. I am sorry for her, to feel like that the last day of her life. Depression and even suicide are hereditary. Please get help for yourself if you are suffering. There are so many things you can do to help yourself, there is no need to feel like that.