What becomes of suicides in the christian belief?

Answer 1

they apparantly go to hell, i dont know why, they are better than child molesters who repent and go to heaven.

Answer 2

This is a good question. Really, we can't know the answer. The bible (which is where Christian's beliefs should be coming from) does not ever directly say what will happen to someone if they commit suicide, so we are left to the things it does tell us to conclude an opinion of our own.

It is Christ's death on the cross alone that saves us from our sins, so apart from believing in and knowing Him you will go to Hell when you die - however you die. And if you were indeed born again and in a relationship with Christ when you die, then you will go to Heaven. Some christians believe that you have to confess every single sin and ask to be forgiven or else you are not forgiven and if you were to die you would go to Hell. So if commiting suicide is a sin, and then you die before being able to ask for forgiveness .. according to their logic you would go to hell. Others, however, find it imposible to remember or even know every single sin they commit or have commited and trust God to be less confusing and more mercifull than that.. therefore if suicide is a sin you might still be going to Heaven. The doubt alone is enough to keep me from every doing it.

Answer 3

If some commits suicide it is indeed a failure of Christians. If some are driven to kill themselves then they have nothing to live for. A Christian has God to live for. A Christian believes that he/she is not owned by herself but has been purchased at a price. A lot of suicides and suicide attempts are a cry for help and often the person does not mean to carry out the act but realises this when it is too late.......if this is the case then that person regrets his/her action and God will see this. Only God will decide the fate of the person not us. Suicide is not dealt with clearly in the NT as it was obviously not an issue for new covenant Christians.

Answer 4

The same as what becomes of anyone else. The person who commits suicide out of desperation is a sight more likely to get mercy than the people who drove him to it. Unless, of course, it's his own folly that landed him in a mess.

The Christian message to non-Christians is always the gospel, and not moralising. And if you've heard the gospel and rejected it, you are no different at all, on the day of judgement, from a suicide case who has done likewise. One could very aptly say that rejection of Christ is _real_ suicide.
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Answer 5

There is no explicit scriptural statement. Suicides are left to the mercy and compassion of God. By the way, Hell is not eternal; so IF any suicides go to hell, they are just being purged of their bad karma/ sins, to make them fit for God's presence. The Eastern Orthodox church also teaches this, that Hell has a purpose and is not endless suffering. My conviction is that everyone goes to 'Hell' after Death for a limited time, in order to purify us. It's not endless torture but rather a painful healing process; just like a skin graft.

Answer 6

They do not go to hell! I want someone to show me where they get this from because it doesn't make sense. The whole foundation of Christianity is that belief in Jesus as a person's saviour is what makes people Christians not their actions. Your actions have consequences obviously, but they do not determine whether you go to heaven or hell. Therefore if someone commits suicide it's their beliefs that determine where they go not their actions.

Answer 7

maximum people who effectively commit suicide are genetically mentally ill, and if God made them mentally ill to the component that their lives might replace into excruciatingly insufferable, committing suicide is in simple terms an act of nature, the effect of being ill ends up in a hastened dying one way or yet another. So i individually disagree with the religious attitude that suicide is a sin. there is a lot misery in the international, and faith can't answer to all issues.

Answer 8

There are far too many different types of church in the 'Christian' belief system to tell you all of them, so I will tell you what MY church 'thinks and does' about 'suicide' ...
I'm a Catholic, and it USED TO BE that if a person committed suicide, that person COULD NOT BE BURIED ON HALLOWED GROUND (cemetary owned by Catholics, where Catholics MUST be buried, back then) ... and the belief was that suicide was a 'mortal sin' and the person who did it would go DIRECTLY TO HELL for 'eternity.'
Nowadays (after the 'council' was held in the 1960s), we are taught that those who commit suicide are 'mentally ill' and are 'not in their right minds' when they kill themselves ... and sucides can be buried on 'hallowed ground' and they can go to heaven ...
I believe that the 'new thinking' is correct ... but I also believe that GOD has His 'own opinion' on what people are, and that it doesn't require 'burial on hallowed ground' to go to Heaven ... when Jesus was crucified, he died for ALL OF OUR SINS, and that included both those who died after he did, and those who died BEFORE he did ... and NONE of those people could be buried on 'hallowed ground' (which didn't come into 'effect' until more than 300 years AFTER Christ's death), and if they can go to Heaven, so can ANYONE who dies after, even those who are NON-Christian.

Answer 9

Jesus said that there was only ONE unforgivable sin:

Luke 12:10 (New International Version)

10And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

This is the only sin that God will NOT forgive.

I don't believe that God would ever turn away a child of His, even if they DID committ suicide, becasue of these truths:

Romans 8:35-39 (New International Version)

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Answer 10

John 15:13.
Chief question; Why? 1 Samuel16:7.

Answer 11

It is consider a sin, maybe the ultimate sin. And as all sins are forgiveable, a founding fact of the Catholic faith (forgive me if I am wrong)....., so it would be too. A catholic family had a teen who committed suicide and they refused to even be a part of any of the funeral for her because of her ultimate sin. Ouch, do that to a child based on faith, that is unforgiveable to me.