Life is a gift, sometimes just lke the ugly sweater that you are expected to wear, but you just want to get rid of it, but you can' t because someone would get mortally offended so it just hangs in the closet unused. And I don't see how any loving creator would create a life and subjugate it to hell on eath, just to condemn it to eternal tormment for being too weak to withstand the torment of life. So either way, I don't think you'll go to hell. I think that there are more sinister forces that want you to believe that god would do such a thing, but it is far beyond what I can perceive. So, chin up little kitten. All is forgiven.
2007-07-22 11:33:32
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answered by ? 5
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I'm not sure where you got the idea that suicide was an unforgivable sin. Such a concept is not fully developed or expressed in the Bible, and since you use the word "sin" I assume you are asking what the Christian position is on this issue. Some thoughts on this:
Not all suicides are the same. Some people who commit suicide are not in their right minds. Others are suffering to abnormal extremes.
Biblical salvation is not based on any one act. One does not fall in and out of salvation with each sin they commit. Certainly the person in your illustration would be saved, but it if they were genuinely saved before the suicide they would be saved after it even if death had been instantaneous.
Still, suicide can be evidence in SOME cases that the individual was living a life without hope. The suicide was the final evidence they had no lifeline, no refuge, no source of strength and power such as believers have. The suicide in such a case would be the final statement that they had not overcome.
I do not have the prerogative of sorting such things out when thinking of a specific case of suicide. Judgment is not in my job description.
2007-07-22 12:07:20
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answered by Anonymous
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A sin - particular. Unforgivable - no. I incredibly have on no account heard of a suicide sufferer that wasn't tousled a approach or the different. the two by psychological ailment or duress. God will take that under consideration. exchange into the guy a Christian that sinned like all of us do or have been they no longer saved in any respect? it incredibly is the genuine variable. asserting you do not have time to repent is religious legalism. you ought to bounce off a bridge and repent on the way down and that standards may be happy. there are various genuine Christians who die and don't have time to repent in spite of sin they did that day - I doubt they bypass to hell. human beings ought to objective to pull by in spite of they trials they're enduring.
2016-09-30 11:47:14
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answered by ? 4
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If you repented, there is a good chance of forgiveness. Many times those who commit suicide do not allow themselves that opportunity.
Suicide is completely compatible to murder as our bodies or someone else's body and souls are created by the Most High Lord, call him whatever name that brings you close to His essence. Thus killing yourself is no different than killing someone else. A human being who is living and breathing who is capable of having free will and worship the Holy One is killed, which makes it such a serious crime.
If one truly repents, and is also losing one's life in any case, then perhaps the Lord will forgive such a person. If someone murders a person, it is understood at least in my religious upbringing that killing the murderer clears his sin. If he asks for forgiveness and receives absolution from the victim's family and genuinely asks for forgiveness and does what he can to alleviate the suffering caused, he may be forgiven the sin.
In many cases the person who commits suicide does not allow himself the time to ask for forgiveness. Thus such a person is surely destined for hell.
After that, really Allah/God/YHWH alone knows and may He forgive me if I have said something wrong and may he contain any wrong I said from moving farther and let it die before it reaches too many and if it does reach many, let it be forgotten if it is wrong and let it be remembered if it is true. Amen.
2007-07-22 11:36:13
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answered by NQV 4
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Although it is wrong to take one’s own life, a person who commits suicide may not be responsible for his or her acts. Only God can judge such a matter.
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said: “Obviously, we do not know the full circumstances surrounding every suicide. Only the Lord knows all the details, and he it is who will judge our actions here on earth.
"When he does judge us, I feel he will take all things into consideration: our genetic and chemical makeup, our mental state, our intellectual capacity, the teachings we have received, the traditions of our fathers, our health, and so forth” (“Suicide: Some Things We Know, and Some We Do Not,” Ensign, Oct. 1987, 8).
2007-07-22 11:33:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Let me give you an answer from My Favorite Professor, Dr. James Alman. When asked if someone who committed suicide would go to Hell, even if they had accepted Jesus Christ, he answered (slightly paraphrased, it was a long time ago):
"I don't believe they'll go to Hell, because once saved always saved. However, I wouldn't want to have to stand before God and explain to Him why I didn't have faith that He would work things out."
I agree with the Doctor. I miss you, Doc, and I did learn, eventually. Thank you so much! For everything.
---an unworthy student.
2007-07-22 11:45:41
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answered by Steve 5
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see, my perspective is one of a compassionate, semi-logical *Wiccan* but since you didn't specifically ask for Christians I figured my 2 cents might be welcomed.....?
Suicide even *being* a sin was one of many Christian beliefs that -always- disturbed me....there are just so many senses in which its horrible to "punish" or condemn someone for. it's wrong in the first place....b/c by a christian definition we have free will, why are we to be punished and looked down upon every time we choose to excersice it? but for another...if you were a "father" and you saw your child in such pain that they wanted to die...would you HONESTLY hold that against them? I know I wouldn't, I couldn't be so selfish, and if *I* can say that....how great can their god be if he cannot?
but even if we're going with the best Christian-friendly arguement (yes I have many on this)....what if this person who killed themself...what if they lived an essentially good life, they never did *anything* else their god would disapprove of....and they were in so much pain that they're only thought was dying SO THEY COULD be with their god and father and who they believed to be their creator....what kind of a sadistic @$$ would punish someone for that??!
but to answer your question, if those were my beliefs, and if I did believe it to be a sin- no, I don't believe so, I believe that if his god were to love the sinner and hate the sin- than the fact that his child learned from his sin but couldn't change it SHOULD be enough to atone for what he did.
after all, if you believe in it, wasn't Jesus inviting his own death?
2007-07-22 11:33:33
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answered by jess 4
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if you repented of it then the sin is absolved (Mark 6:12, Luke 13:3, Acts 2:38). ONLY Christ is our high priest and mediator (2 Tim 1:5) not a priest.
2007-07-22 11:32:28
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answered by ShemaYisrael 2
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When a child of God is saved, all their sins are forgiven: past, present and future.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. - 1 John 3:9.
Suicide does not mean one is going to hell, need we only look to the tragic ending of Samson's life, yet he is remembered amongst the hall of faith in Hebrews 11.
2007-07-22 11:38:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Asking for forgiveness, and repenting is the key.
The problem with suicides is that one never knows how successful their attempt may be. Death might be immediate, in which case there is no time to repent and seek forgiveness, or you may linger, and be granted space to repent.
At issue is whether or not one dies in his sin, in an unforgiven state.
2007-07-22 11:31:03
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answered by Bobby Jim 7
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