"Do it if you want but you are going straight to hell if you do."
Christians, your thoughts on this please?
2007-09-26 01:19:07 · 32 answers · asked by . 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No this wasn't said to me. I can't post a link...that could be said to be harassment of the user who made the comment and I really don't feel like getting a violation.
Thanks for the responses thus far :)
2007-09-26 01:29:26 · update #1
Sharon M you put that so nicely...thank you :)
2007-09-26 01:31:40 · update #2
Vitamin C: Yeah I noticed. Nice huh? I don't understand some people....
2007-09-26 01:38:06 · update #3
I'd like to know who thought it was a smart idea to get the kid's questions deleted. How on earth will a violation notice help him? I only hope he had a chance to read the kind words others wrote for him before someone with an itchy finger hit the report button.
2007-09-26 11:19:55 · update #4
No it isn't appropriate. And it isn't theologically sound, either. I think if someone is depressed, they need to be encouraged to seek help. As a sufferer, I know that my depression is linked to the chemicals in my brain. I also know that there is treatment available to make my life better. That's what I would share with them. I don't know why some of us think that we are supposed to be happy all the time. It doesn't work that way. And anyone who is telling that to a depressed person is operating out of fear, which is not of the Lord.
2007-09-26 01:28:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suicide is too complicated to have one pat response.
In most cases this would be a very, very inappropriate response particularly for a depressed person.
However, what about the 1 out of a thousand people about to commit suicide for perfectly evil reasons (to hurt or extract revenge for example) and would deserve to go to hell for this act (if there were such a thing as hell). Would it be appropriate to point out the inherent evilness and reprehensibility of what they were contemplating?
Necrophilia... now that is not a pat answer.
BTW I just made a WAG at the 1 in a thousand. I have no reliable estimate of how many suicides really fall in this category. Given that the chief result of a suicide is immense pain and suffering by the survivors and that this fact is plainly obvious to most "sane" people, I can't help but think that this number is at least this high.
2007-09-26 01:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by skip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a person that experienced suicide of a step parent at a young age this is a touchy subject for me. I was brought up in the Catholic Church and my mom would always cry saying that my step fathers soul was in Purgatory. Unfortunately suicide is such a complex issue and people who are contemplating it are selfish for they do not understand the ramifications and pain they are inflicting on those that are left behind. It is hard for me as a Christian to deal with such issues because as a human being I still have raw emotion. I would call my Pastor, not leaving the person's side, I would also make sure that their parent's wife or most influential person in their life was there. When my step father shot himself, he was not alone, he had just finished having dinner with my mom, unfortunately for my mother he did not die instantly. I still harbor resentment for the pain and cruelty his death inflicted upon my mom. I am now a Pentecostal Christian, and am working on ability to let go and let God, working on my forgiveness, I mean that was over 25 years ago.
Do I know where his soul is? No, I don't know the conversations he had with the Lord God in his final moments. Do I pray that he is in Heaven? Every day.
2007-09-26 01:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by fire_side_2003 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, my cousin who is a Christian and has had a lot of depression says that that is one reason she has not killed herself. But I think that might not necessarily be a good way to put it.
Why don't you say to a depressed religious person that "God gave you this life and you do not know what God's plan for you is, in your life you may in some way do a lot of good for someone else , and that plan would be destroyed if you take your own life."
At the same time suggest that they get help, there are ways they do not have to feel like this, and medication is NOT a failure that they did not have enough faith or did not pray enough which I've heard those attitudes before and it is a terrible thing to say to someone, more likely to make them kill themselves.
2007-09-26 01:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by Ariane deR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i can somewhat relate to both sides, no i am too chicken to take my own life but there have been times (recently) that i have asked God to remove me from earth where my life is filled w/pain, despair, & just a lot of uncaring people in professional fields; that my mind & body have become so weary (no rest for the weary until they get to heaven) i want to join my grandparents in heaven. now i cant say what u did was wrong i wish i could remember the passage in the Bible where it states self destruction is a straight ticket to hell (not in those exact words) sometimes the truth hurts when we r blunt & 2 the point everyone is different when handling such situations who r we 2 say u were wrong. oh if only we could love one another the way God loves us there wouldnt be any problems on earth, all we can do is rebuke satan, get thee behind me for u have no business in my life which is governed & given by the Almighty my mom is always saying "man is mighty by God is Almighty"
2007-09-26 07:35:22 · answer #5 · answered by nunya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is not an appropriate response.
Any response to suicide should include both a recognition that this is not the way the world is meant to be, that it is corrupted by our sinful natures and that we all long and hope for something better. For Christians, this hope is founded in the return of Christ to save His people, execute judgement on the Earth and institute the new heavens and earth.
2007-09-26 01:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by Gruntled Employee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not the right response in any situation. I would want to talk to ther person and find out what is bothering them to see what I can do to help. If I truly want to live as a Christian, I need to be able to act like I believe Jesus would in that situation.
2007-09-26 01:29:53 · answer #7 · answered by Dozer 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is.
I think we should offer a better solutions - a hope, a reason to live through Jesus Christ.
We aren't here to tell people to go to hell and burn.
We are here to tell people why they don't need too. How to get back into a right relationship with God.
I hope you weren't that person who was told that.
I'd be glad to help if you were. Feel free to contact me.
2007-09-26 01:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of direction we do. by way of fact even although there are recommendations to our questions, by way of fact the solutions are larger than our minds are, that is not like that is this pat element. that is much less that there is an answer which you will wrap words around and supply to somebody so as that they haven't any questions left, and extra like there retains being further and further colours of answer, however the solutions are purely approximately in no way words. i'm hoping it is wise --- if I have been interpreting that i'm not sure it may. :|
2016-11-06 10:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If any of you guys don't believe someone actually said this, then check it out for yourself: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvmuNhJJe5MROfNrCS3Zqm_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070925201726AAwh2bX&show=7#profile-info-a76de61a485dce976cf95e2df9dc479daa
And no, I think it is just horrible that she said that. She must 13 or something. Let's hope so!
I don't know if you noticed, but the person right under her said something just as bad. Some people are pretty clueless.
2007-09-26 01:28:06 · answer #10 · answered by Tea 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋