if i kill myself will i go to heaven?

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kricky517

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I have not read the other responses so sorry if I am repeating. But, when I was a teenager, I had anxiety/panic and depression. Every morning, I woke up feeling sick to my stomach. I hated my life. My belief was that if I killed myself, I would go to Hell. But that was not the only thing that kept me from doing it. The other thing that kept me from taking my own life was that I knew that it would be selfish. My family loved me and how would they feel if I killed myself?? I would not only be damning myself but I would also break the hearts of those around me.
Your body is your temple. God created it for your spirit. Pray, find help, go to church, surround yourself with positivity and other Christians. God loves you.
 

presidente

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sadch,

People will have different answers based on their beliefs. People who are heavy into eternal security are going to say suicide won't send a Christian to Hell. People who believe if you die with an unconfessed sin you go to Hell.... self-murder as the last thing you do? Wow. They are going to think a different way. And the idea of being depressed, killing oneself, and then being depressed AND burning in incomparable painful fire for all eternity on top of feeling depressed is an awful thought. Be that as it may, you will have to stand before God and give an account. I believe believers who end life 'okay' in regard to their eternal destiny are still going to have to stand before God and give an account of how faithful they were with their lives.

God gave you your life, and it would be extremely foolish to throw you away. Do you remember the man in the parable who was given one talent? Even if you don't think much of your life, you don't want to fail to make good use of it like that man in the parable.

I do not know what happened to you. But do not make a permanent decision based on a temporary problem. If your issue is just the pain you feel about something is immense, that's terrible, but emotional pain does go away. It does lessen over time, and it is possible to be healed, emotionally by God.

Let me also share a little experience of mine. I had a close female friend once. We weren't dating, but we were close and there were a lot of emotions. One day she told me on the phone she didn't want to be a close friend of mine anymore, and she also said some other things that hurt me. That hurt, but the next morning was Saturday or a holiday, so I lay on my bed thinking all these thoughts about how bad she was and how bad what she did was. It was like it was addictive to think these thoughts, but as I thought them, it was like a knife jabbing into my heart.

Someone at church had a vision of an enemy shooting arrows into my heart and me allowing it. This was from the group that prayed before church. So they prayed for me, including the person who'd hurt my feelings, and I was about 90 or 95% better after that.

What I learned from this is what it can be like if accept thoughts demons put into your mind. I didn't know that was what was going on at the time. I remember another time when I was young, and something had happened I didn't like, but it wasn't nearly as painful as this. On a long road trip, the idea of just killing myself with the car at a high speed came through my mind. I realized, though, that that was stupid, and I might have realized it was demonic.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of what you are experiencing is demonic in nature, demons putting thoughts into your minds, and instead of rejecting the thoughts, you accept them. II Corinthians 10 talks about bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Christ did not teach you to commit suicide. Memorize some scripture. Maybe that verse about 'rejoicing in our suffering' might help you. Psalm 42 tells about David feeling downcast. He talked to his soul and said he would hope in God and praise Him. That's a solution for you. Talk to your soul (talk to yourself) if you have to. Quote scripture to yourself. Say, "I am not going to think those thoughts. My life is valuable. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I must use my life to glorify God" and pray to the Lord for help. Do like David. When you are downcast, praise the Lord. Do what James says. If any is afflicted, let him pray.

Don't lose this battle. Just imagine a small gang of demons around you. One of them throws a thought your way, and if you accept it they all join in and start laughing and mocking as they give you more suicidal thoughts. But now imagine that thought crosses your mind, and you say 'no' and you quote scripture with resolve. You start to pray. Now imagine they get scared and run away. Why would you want to lose a battle like that?

As far as emotional pain goes, you can be cured of that. Spend time in prayer and the word and meet with other believers who can pray with you about it or just talk with you. That kind of pain doesn't last forever, and the Lord is very able to heal you. I was healed from horrific emotional pain in an instant when people prayed with me about it. Don't give up hope.

Also, don't focus on how you feel and how the decisions you make will effect how you feel. Rats in a maze do that. If the food tastes good, they'll push a lever or jump through hoops. If there is an electric shock, they go the other way. Instead of making decisions based on how you feel, make decisions on what pleases the Lord. You will likely feel much, much better soon if you do that and seek Him. Use this pain as an opportunity to draw closer to God. There is more to you as a person than just how you feel at the moment. You are bigger than that.
 
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sensible

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no u will not go to heaven my dear , it is God who takes ur life when the time is ready , u don't have to choice the time , u will be cast in hell , god give u life , why should u kill urself? if u kill urself u are hurting God , and u will commit the worst sin in ur life , don't do mistake like that , ask god help , this life is not easy , god say u will not have a easy life , but remember he is always with u until the end ; don't kill urself , u will have victory in Jesus , god bless u , and have courage
 
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GreenNnice

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I hope and pray things are getting better for you, milady. The c.c. folk care an awful lot about you :)


The Lord leads. Follow Him. His path for you in life is one with good plans for you to do and with a future and a hope, just like Jeremiah 29:11 says. :)
 
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AlayaRose

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God needs you here. You are a witness to what sin does. Please think on this for just a moment. Christ has promised to wipe away all our tears when all this is over. Who will wipe away his tears. A god that loves us so much that he will wipe away our sorrow yet remember it him self is worth suffering for. This is a small amount of time to suffer if you consider, 10,000 years from now.
 
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Rudyboi

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God never throws anything at you he knos you can't handle but you'll be In my prayers keep your head up!:)
 
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DragonSlayer

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The problem is we live in a world who teaches us very early to hate oneself, whereas it's a Lord's command to love oneself.
If you love yourself you cannot kill yourself. To love yourself you have to know yourself, your personality, your qualities, your hidden potential in certain activities, etc. these things we usually learn them in a loving childhood with loving and responsible parents. But what happens when it's the opposite ? What happens when you have a childhood filled with hatred with hateful and irresponsible parents ? It happens the opposite; abused children learn to hate themselves very early and that leave them very vulnerable to self destruction and suicidal thoughts. Abused children must learn to love themselves, they must live what they missed in a loving childhood environment to love themselves, they must explore their true self and discover what they truly are and realize they are NOT what their abusers wanted them to believe ! They'll discover that they have an incommensurable value and great qualities and a great potential ! What you can't fully express with words, you can try expressing it with an art you like ! You can express your soul, heart, and thoughts through poetry, through writing, through music, and so on...
It's a great way to be at peace with yourself, and really the best way to never kill yourself is to learn to love yourself as a little child in a loving environment...

It's not selfish to love oneself...even Jesus loves the Father so if Jesus is the Lord and is One with the Father, then the Lord loves Himself ! Also it's the Lord's command to love yourself, as Jesus told us to love one's neighbor as oneself. So clearly this Lord's command told to love yourself first, and after you are able to love your neighbor as yourself. And your neighbor is not your enemy, your neighbor is another you with a different personality,
your neighbor is your best friend, your neighbor is Jesus, your neighbor is you yourself !

No shame to love yourself ! It's the best protection the Lord can give you against self-destruction ! If you love yourself, you'll never inflict any harm to yourself, trust me !

Learn to love yourself as a little child in a loving environment, sister !
And you'll live forever ! By the Lord's Freedom !

P.S : I'm a survivor just like you, you're in my heart, you're in Jesus heart !

Be yourself, Love yourself, Be happy !

 
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Godismystrength

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Maybe, maybe not.

But one thing is for sure. God cannot get mad at you if you just keep trying your best. Who knows, maybe someday you'll find the answers to your problems. Maybe someday you will rise above them. I know I have found the answers to my problems, and I deal with being bullied and humiliated almost every day of my life. I KNOW humiliation. There have been many points where I considered suicide or getting a final vengeance on my enemies before killing myself. I've reached a point now recently where my therapist pointed out that I had 10 exceptionally good days right in a row. Despite them. You just have to hit your problems from the right angle. Pray to God for wisdom to help you see your problems clearly. Worked for Solomon. There is nothing that God cannot help you overcome.

My life would have been a guaranteed sad ending had I killed myself, and now I live a pretty good life. Why trade that potential happy ending for a guaranteed sad ending? There were times where I was the most miserable excuse for a human being. I kept going, and I learned a lot from the pain, which made me a stronger, more understanding individual.

Not everyone succeeds at killing themselves. Some people just make their lives worse. Look at people who shoot themselves and survive, but they effectively disfigured themselves. Now they have to live with the consequences of that. Not just shooting yourself, but so many other ways where you can screw yourself up like that.

Really puts things into perspective. There is always something that you can be grateful for. That person who shot themselves could have been grateful that they weren't disfigured, prior. However, even if a person did make a mistake like that, they could still be grateful for their hearing and beautiful music. Right now, you have eyesight to view this page. Heck, you have a computer with an Internet connection.

I created a list of 1,000 things I'm grateful for. I'm up to 900 right now. 100 per day. When I reach 1,000 things, I'm moving onto 10,000 things. You can be richer than any billionaire if you simply appreciate what a billionaire would never think to appreciate. It gives you reasons to live too. I have over 900 reasons, and I'm 'certain' I have not thought of them all.
 
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Adinah

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Suicide is blasphemous and blasphemy is unforgiven so I assume you will not get into heaven right away
This is a ridiculous off-the-cuff answer. It's not that simple. People suffer. People become terribly depressed, desperate, despondent. Life is hard. My grandfather killed himself during the depression. He became terribly sick, his farm failed, he despaired. God isn't a monster.
 
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shijus

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i was talking to a muslim friend yday.people who commit suicide do not go to heaven,their souls are cursed to repaet the act everytime till the day of doom.its gods will to take a life.
 
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danschance

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I have not read the other responses so sorry if I am repeating. But, when I was a teenager, I had anxiety/panic and depression. Every morning, I woke up feeling sick to my stomach. I hated my life. My belief was that if I killed myself, I would go to Hell. But that was not the only thing that kept me from doing it. The other thing that kept me from taking my own life was that I knew that it would be selfish. My family loved me and how would they feel if I killed myself?? I would not only be damning myself but I would also break the hearts of those around me.
Your body is your temple. God created it for your spirit. Pray, find help, go to church, surround yourself with positivity and other Christians. God loves you.

Amazing insight. Thank you for it.
 
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breana

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As Praus pointed out...1 Corinthians 6:19 - 20 indicates that our bodies belong to God because he bought them with Christ's blood. This gives him authority to do as he wills with our bodies but be not dismayed if you trust in his love for you, you will see the good in what he has brought you through. You keep repeating your age & you dont even realise that its God that has brought you this age & no matter what you are going through or have been through none of it supercedes his love or purpose for your life. If you take the focus off yourself & focus on his love & fall in love with him then you will be able to see his purpose in your suffering.

2 Timothy 2:12 says if we suffer with him we will reign with him...God cannot lie therefore he has a purpose in your suffering. If you put your trust solely in him you will find joy & peace that you cant even fathom. Your circumstances may not even change but when God baptises you in his Spirit & hides your life inside himself...you will never see or feel the same unless you choose to. I encourage you to let God be God in your life & free fall into his love. Seek him with all your heart & he will come to you...Psalm 51:17 says he wont refuse a broken & contrite heart. Do not be deceived God loves you more than you can ever imagine.

*If our bodies belong to God this indicates to me that if any man defies God's will & takes his own life then he certainly cannot enter heaven. Our bodies belong to God & he wants to use us as his vessels to work his ministry of reconciliation, to rescue the lost. God wants to use you, your experiences are your training ground regard them as precious as gold as the scriptures say. If you do you will reap the eternal benefits of it, resting in his bossom :)
 
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shijus

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My friend, I have had two strong death urgings in my life.pray to god.i believe god saved me on both occasions.he also saved my soul from further sin and the peace for my near and dears.read the new testament.go to church.talk to the priest.you will see change in a short period.and may god help you.
 
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Cino

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We all think when we are down, that our life is the worst. I have been there myself. Nobody else suffered like me, nobody else had things happen like I have, and my life was the worst. We all feel that when we are down. That is a tool that Satan blinds us, making us think that there is no hope, and God does not love us. Be strong and tell Satan to go away, and do not give up. You say you wish you were Job? You think his life was better than yours? I think you'd better read the whole book of Job again, and I don't think there are too many people in this life today that could through what he did. He lost his land, his cattle, and most of all, all his children. He had bodily sores to contend with. He had friends and family against him, and even his wife told him to curse God and die. He not only had all the physical pain and loss, but he had the rejection of God so to speak, that God gave APPROVAL to Satan to test and try him. Think hard before you think your life is harder than Job. You are 23. I don't know what you went through, but Satan is certainly putting a dark cloud over your eyes to blind you. As far as the question if you can kill yourself and still go to Heaven, well God give life, and ONLY God can take away life. It is not within your right to take your life. So, if ONLY God has the right to take away life, and you kill yourself, it doesn't look very good for your eternal future. I also recommend that if you are that depressed, you need professional medical help. Don't wait. Talk to someone professionally, and maybe you even need some sort of medication. Just tell Satan to go away, and remember that some place out there, there are friends who care about you. I mean look at this site? None of us know you, and yet we are trying to reach out to you because we care. Think of all the things that Job had to contend with... I certainly don't think you have gone through all of that... as a matter of fact, I know you haven't, cause you probably don't have 8 or 10 children that you lost, you probably haven't lost all your land and thousands of cattle, you probably didn't have sores all over body and suffer in pain, so think good before you say that.
 

presidente

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Suicide is blasphemous and blasphemy is unforgiven so I assume you will not get into heaven right away
How could suicide be blasphemy? You don't have to say or write anything to commit suicide.
 
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libertygirl

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Sadch, have you tried medication for your depression? Also, I recommend getting your thyroid checked. Sometimes depression and anxiety is due to thyroid imbalance.

God is so great and He's transformed so many lives. He wants to transform your life too. I'm not sure what life issues you are facing but feel free to PM me if you want to talk about it.
 
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I am 23 and i want to kill myself. Can i still go to heaven? all 6 people in the bible who killed themselves were evil so that scares me but i really cant take anymore humiliation.
When we obey the commandments of the Lord, humiliation is replaced by respect. That is the path to follow. It doesn't take long.
 
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QuietCaptiveFreed

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Hi sadch, I think the only thing I want to tell you is that I too struggle with living in this world with all that I have been through. It seems that I have just lived one tragedy to another and I have no answers as to why God has allowed us to endure all of the horrible devastation and pain that has happened. For me, the only reason I am still here is because I have children who would be left in the care of their father who is abusive. There is also some kind of tug (I suppose it is God) that tells me that all I have been through will serve some sort of purpose. Can not imagine what, but it will. And if I take my life I can not see that through. My youngest brother took his own life 10 years ago. I can assure you that it will affect people in your life, whether they have loved you like they should have or not. In fact, I think that is part of the reason I struggle with taking my own life. I've seen and felt what it does. Can I ask what "humiliation" you are referring to? I would love to talk further if you want to. God has something waiting for both of us. I know it.
 
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Sheena

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Dunno if you will get this but I pray so! I am bipolar. Life time of ALL FORMS of abuse....14 yrs of therapy and medication. God never left me nor forsook me and he hasn't you! Suicide is never ever the answer! Please please go get help?! Help of all kinds is available! Private message me if you want? Prayed for you. May the Father of all that is, was, and ever will be,grant you peace that surpasses all understanding...