where in the bible does it say that if you commit suicide, you will go to hell?

Question

the 10 commandments say "thou shalt not kill". but is there a quote that specifically says that if you kill yourself, you will end up in hell?l

my girlfriend heard of a recent story about a 15 year old girl who killed herself and all of her religious co-workers said "oh, that girl is going to hell." it made my girlfriend angry because her co-workers had no idea how bad the girl's life may have been.

my girlfriend's story made me think of this question.

so the hebrew translation says thou shall not murder. well good, i can tell my girlfriend that the 15 year old is not in hell because she killed herself. thanks all.

Answer 1

It doesn't.
Actually, most people kill themselves in this world due to a mental illness, or the effects of drugs, or other things due to this imperfect, wicked system.
Their judgment is in Gods hands, just like ours.

Answer 2

It doesn't people come to this conclusion because they say that you wont be able to ask God for forgivness after you kill yourself, so then you cannot be forgiven of it. Which IS NOT true since salvation through Jesus takes care of ALL sin; past, present and future.

The actual translation from the Hebrew text is: "Thou shall not murder."

The Bible in Basic English translates the phrase, "Do not put anyone to death without cause.", The Hebrew word used here is ratsach, which nearly always refers to intentional killing without cause (unless indicated otherwise by context). Hebrew law recognized accidental killing as not punishable.

Answer 3

it doesn't-not that i know of. my pastor explained it like this: as long as you TRULY believe in god and jesus christ and the holy spirit, and you have a good relationship with all of the above, you are in the book of life...so you will go to heaven. but we will be given "rewards" when we get there based on what we do here on earth, and our intentions behind what we do. therefore, if you were to commit suicide, but you were a christian, you would still go to heaven, but your rewards would be less than if you hadn't killed yourself. my question to the pastor was "isn't going to heaven reward enough?''. i know everyone automatically assumes that the ten commandments state that you shall not kill, and that goes for yourself too. you can't very well ask for forgiveness after you're dead; it's too late then. everyone sins. that's just the burden we've inherited. i don't believe (now) that if you commit suicide you go to hell, no. God is a forgiving God.

Answer 4

It would be foolish, I think, to say that if one breaks a commandment that they are going to hell, escpecailly since at one time or another everyone has broken a several of them. (Remember the Sabbath Day....Do not bear false witness..etc). No where does it say that one commandment is more important than the others.

The text you are looking for exists. but it is in the interpretation of the text that suggests the victim will be going to hell, not in the text itself. The problem is that this text is applied to all who commit suicide.

Mark 14:21 Jesus is speaking at his last meal and says, "The Son of Man is going the way appointed for him in the scriptures; but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had never been born."

The person, obviously is Judas Iscariot who went out later and hanged himself. The problem is how the text is used.
Does Jesus mean eternal punishment, the self punishment that drives one to suicide, or the suicide itself.

My own opinion is that Jesus is saying that Judas is going to suffer greatly because of his guilt when he sees that the results of betrayal do not cause angels to come to Christ's rescue ( remember the temptation story - angels will come lest he stub his toe Matt 4:6).

It is the intense suffering here that drives one to suicide, not the act itself that is referred to. If it was the act itself, then Jesus would not have said, "Greater love has no person than he lay down his life for another."(John 15:13)

Because Judas was the key instrument that resulted ultimately in the resurrection, it would seem to me that God would have great compassion on him,...and by extension, any one who suffers so much.

The bottom line is that no one, save God himself, has the right to say, a person is condemned to a hell, That is God's decision.

Answer 5

The Bible doesn't say you'll go to hell for suicide. But, it does say murder is sin. If you murder yourself, then you can't ask for forgiveness. You can't be forgiven of a sin until the sin is committed. So if you commit the sin of murder upon yourself, you cheat yourself out of forgiveness. The Bible also says there will be NO sin in Heaven. One must use common sense here. Also, no matter the circumstances one is facing, there is hope and help from someone, somewhere. So suicide is no answer for anything.

Answer 6

The word is not in the Bible but the teaching against suicide is in the Bible. There are many teachings in the Bible like Holy Trinity, Incarnation, Purgatory, etc. which are not mentioned by those words but the doctrines are there.

Suicide contradicts the human tendency to preserve life. It is gravely contrary to a love of self, a love of neighbor (because it breaks ties of family and friends), and love for God.

Answer 7

The idea is that as your final act you are not only violating one commandment but most of all the first commandment also. Which is to have no other Gods before God Almighty. When you decide the day that you die, you choose to be God. So as your final act you usurp God's authority over life and death and you are murdering.

Answer 8

In the 10 Commandments;thou shall not kill.If you cannot create life you have no right to take it. Not even your own.

Answer 9

There isn't, and really that's a cruel thing to say to her family.

Hell, as a place of eternal fiery torment, does not exist. It is unscriptural.

Two scriptural things for you to consider:

When Job was going through his overwhelming pain and suffering at Satan's hands, he asked that god hid him ... in Sheol (the hebrew word for hell). Why would he ask to be concealed from his temporary suffering in a place of permanent torment?

Also, the scriptures (I'll find chapter & verse for you soon) says that Jehovah disciplines "to the right degree". How could punishing someone for eternity for the sins committed in a minute lifetime be considered "to the right degree"?

Answer 10

The Bible says that your attitude to Jesus is what determines whether you go to heaven or hell.

If you have said sorry to God for ignoring him or disobeying him, if you accept God's offer of forgiveness by Jesus' death on the cross, and if you have resolved to treat Jesus as the ruler of your life, then you will go to heaven.

If you continue to ignore or disobey God and reject his offer of forgiveness, then you will go to hell.

Since we are not perfect until we get to heaven, then we will sometimes sin. We will be tempted to lie, to steal, to hurt and so on and sometimes we will succumb to temptation. That means that sometimes some believers will succumb to the temptation of killing themselves.

However, if they are already in a the type of relationship with God that I described above, then they will go to heaven because they have already received God's free offer of forgiveness.

Also bear in mind that people do not kill themselves because they are evil. People kill others out of evil, but not themselves. They are either in a desperate situation which they perceive as inescapable, or they are mentally ill.