religious people have told me that when you accept god as ur savior than he will forgive you for anything, yet oddly enough these same people think that if u commit suicide u go to hell... is that true? and does it say anywhere in the bible about this?
2007-11-25 16:44:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No they leave Hell.
2007-11-29 14:56:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is an old Catholic belief that many Christians still believe. It is based on the premise that one had to confess their sins to a priest, who would in turn take the confession to God. Protestant and Evangelical Christianity both believe that a person can go to God themself without using the priest as an intermediary.
When a person asks Christ to forgive them of their sins, it means ALL of their sins--even the ones that have not been committed yet. Therefore, IF suicide is in fact a sin, you have already been forgiven of it beforehand when you initially asked for forgiveness.
2007-11-25 16:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by SDW 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Usually if you commit suicide, your not right in the head. You are suffering from mental illness. Your not going to hell for being sick. Then there are the others. You are a murderer even if you kill yourself. It all depends where your heart and where your head is at, at the time.
2007-11-25 16:53:17 · answer #3 · answered by guitarrman45 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever accepted Jesus in into your heart? If not, I would love to give you the opportunity to do so,
Pray something like this-
(example feel free to use your own words)
God , you loved me so much that you sent you son to die for my sins so that i can have eternal life, and not have to experience eternity in hell. There is nothing I can do to earn salvation. I believe and confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is Your son, the savior of the world. I believe that he died for my sins, paying for the price of them all. I believe that you raised him from the dead, and he is alive today. I am a sinner and i ask you to forgive me. By faith i receive Jesus Christ now, as my Lord and Savior and I will spend eternity with you-thank you Lord-In Jesus' name amen.
2007-11-25 19:34:05 · answer #4 · answered by dawn 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the last act of one's life is breaking one of the Ten Commandments (Thou shalt not murder), I don't believe one goes to heaven, even if he/she is a Christian. However, I don't know what God does in every case and that's up to Him. What happens when a person is dying and can no longer take the pain and hopelessness and commits suicide? If God is infinitely merciful, He judges each case separately.
2007-11-25 16:51:14 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)
That means everyone has sinned.
"The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), by death it means both physical death and eternal death (hell).
So basically everyone deserves hell. Now the way to heaven is Jesus Christ ("Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6)
A person cannot earn heaven by themselves, they need the gift of God, by accepting Jesus as their saviour for their sins. ("For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8))
So a person cannot do enough good to earn their way to heaven or after accepting the gift cannot mess up or do enough bad to make God's perfect gift inadequate to go to heaven.
So if a person has truly accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, yes they can still sin afterwards and not have their salvation disqualified. (Whether it is suicide, or lying, or hating someone, or whatever the sin)
2007-11-25 17:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by LearningGuy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were already in hell, that's why they killed themselves.
actually, yes it's true. you go to your own frightening hell, where everything that bothered you, still bothers you and also even more. when you finally wake up from this afterlife hell and reincarnate, it will take 7 life times to shake the urge of wanting to commit suicide. bible isn't the only source for info..
2007-11-25 16:47:00 · answer #7 · answered by satya 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those who have their sins forgiven my accepting Jesus Christ will go to Heaven. It is wrong to kill yourself, but it is not the unpardonable sin.
Those who die without Christ will go to hell, no matter how the lived, or how they died. They must pay for their own sins and hell is the price.
2007-11-25 16:50:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You must ask for forgiveness to be forgiven. If you ask for forgiveness, you are forgiven, but if you are dead before you ask, how can you go to Heaven??? You can't ask before the fact and expect to be forgiven knowing you are about to commit a sin knowing it's a sin. clear as mud???
2007-11-25 16:51:59 · answer #9 · answered by freebird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that a person who is depressed enough to take their own life, or ill enough to self terminate, will not go to hell.
Not only because there is no such place, but even if there were such a place, it still wouldn't be wrong, under those circumstances.
2007-11-25 17:12:23 · answer #10 · answered by moonbaby 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Someone that Kills himself is a looser and weak, Someone that truly accepted God in their hearts would never commit suicide
2007-11-25 16:52:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋