If God doesn't give us more than we can handle...?

Question

why are there so many people committing suicide?

Now I'm not a skeptic, I'm more of a doubter. I believe that a God may exist, but... all the common cliches that I've heard from religion don't seem to really prove their point. In fact, it just raises more questions and makes me even more doubtful. I know I'm supposed to just believe and have faith of my own accord, but the things I've heard and read that are supposed to help me believe in God and convince me that he's loving and kind, all kind of contradict that, and make me decide that it's a God that I wouldn't want to believe in.

I want to believe in a good, loving God. Someone please help me.

Answer 1

This goes for everyone,
God will not give more than we can handle. It is our choice to do or not to do in these situations.
I am a survivor of being completely broke at 4 different times in my life, managed to get out of relationships of the following: drunk, a beater, a drug abuser, a guy that almost killed me twice, another one that was emotionally abusive...and that list goes on of poor guys that treated me horribly. I managed to raise a child on my own without help from the father or the government. There is so much more in my life that I care not to share. I felt at times that yes I wanted to kill myself. That was a choice, I felt God was dishing out more than I could handle, but I screwed my head on straight and fought the battles and conqured them. God will give us situations to see how we handle them, to know what we would be able to handle in heaven. He needs to be able to trust us with small things.

Answer 2

Hey Friend, I used to be a skeptic to. I knew something was not right but if you need proof you need to take yourself away from the city where there is a lake or some where where there are trees. Stay there and look around and you will find your proof. Think about it where did the all these complicated life forms come from they just didn't appear from thin air and speaking of air where did it come from it just didn't come from nowhere. all of these things you see around you came from somewhere and I can't tell you where but that is the higher life form that you hear people referring to as God. I don't know if the Bible is completely truthful I don't know what religious group is right or wrong all I know is their is a higher being a God and you should defiantly believe in him otherwise you never will know what the consequences will be.

Answer 3

If there is a God I think 'he' gives people the ability to handle any situation but it's up to the person to live up to that ability. No matter how depressed a person is, suicide is a choice and people have the power not to choose it even if they don't believe they do. I've been suicidally depressed before and I finally chose to get help instead. I'm glad I did. Now I can look back and see that I was strong enough to handle a bad situation.

Answer 4

If everybody committed suicide every time we had a trial or tribulation, we would all be dead. If you truly love God you will offer up your hardships to the Lord in repentance for your sins. We would not have had to suffer if it hadn't been for the downfall of Adam and Eve. Before that, everything was perfect for man. We, man ruined that in Genesis. We are therefore suffering for that sin. God gave us a free will, people who commit suicide, do so by choice. I do believe there are cases in which people will not be held accountable by God for suicide. People who are severely mentally ill. God promised us an eternity of happiness hereafter if we follow his commandments and repent for our sins. It is Satan that is trying to confuse you. Read your bible and you should understand that suffering can be a good thing. It cleanses us from our sins. God bless you. I hope I helped you. Ask a priest or your minister, they would be able to explain all of this to you in much more depth than I could ever.

Answer 5

People who commit suicide, are not looking to God for the answers. They have chosen a different way. Now, that is not to say that all people who commit suicide are in Hell. Because, no one knows except God Himself, if that person had a change of heart just before they died or something. It is not for me to say. But, I really think that suicide is a selfish thing to do, because it leaves all your loved ones grieving and without answers, and puts them in torment. But, I totally believe if that person had turned to the Lord, they would not have done it in the first place.
May I add that God always gives us a way out of these things.

Answer 6

First you have to stop defining God by man's standards... God is God... not man...

I believe that if God were not concerned for mankind that mankind would not even be here. God offered mankind The universe... and mankind rejected Him... yet God still provides The Way, for all who will, to come to Him.... yet... the vast majority still reject Him... because they want to "do it' their way, not God's

God makes the Rules... play by God's Rules... or... ultimatly... you lose.

I invite you to visit my web site... http://www.mikesfaith.com
it might give you a sart on comeing to know what The Church is about...

All who come to God in The Way He prescribes will receive His free gift of Salvation. Those become part of The Body of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head. Those are the ones of The True Christian Faith. Only those of The Church will enter Heaven.

Answer 7

I have been having severe problems here lately with depression.
Feeling that no one cares, my friends have turned against me, God has abandoned me.
But then God revealed to me that I have gotten so caught up in the pressures of everyday life that I haven't been spending anytime in His Word.
See, I'm a Christian Preacher, writer and Evangelist and I face the same pressures and problems you do.
I assure you that God is a loving and caring God.
Are you making time for HIM?
I am now, praise God.

Answer 8

Aesity means self-existence. Aesity explains the metaphysical nature of God as a purely self-existent being that exists in complete actuality. God is not a being that is created by another god; neither does God create himself into existence. Rather, God has always existed as an unchanging, completely actualized being.


God has his Being of himself and to himself such that he is Absolute being and the definition of existence.
Since God’s essence is his nature and God’s existence is the same as his essence it follows that God is existence.

Answer 9

Study up on other religions. If you don't find one that suits you, keep searching, or create your own spiritual path. Whatever relationship you have with the God of your understanding is entirely up to you.

Answer 10

You have to rermember, that we ARE still human, & all too often, we DO fall prey to Satan & His deceptions.

That DOESN't mean that God loves us any less, though, as we see here:

2 Timothy 2:12-14 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society



12if we endure,
we will also reign with him.
If we disown him,
he will also disown us;
13if we are faithless,
he will remain faithful,
for he cannot disown himself.