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Agreed Dabears,

Im actally disgusted at most of the comments (baring a few) made on here by those talking about suicide being punishable. How many believers have suicided,even apostles (I dont like using the word 'commited' as that implies to many that is is a crime) God gave free will to do anything you please..be it whatever..even murder..its your free will. If a person wants to judge another on what they call a sin, then jesus' story of the woman caught in adultery didn't mean anything when they read it. Did one of those cast the first stone?

The beam in the eye verse rings through here as well. It is one thing judging peoples doctrines, that is to be done..but judging their actions is a different thing. What then? are you allowed your free will to sin as you like, but others arnt? Remember a sin is a sin is a sin to god.. he doesnt have levels of sins like we humans do. Murder is as much a sin in gods eyes as stealing an icecream.

Where does the bible talk about suicide much anyway? Where are these verses that claim its unforgivable?

Did god not say, I will not put upon you more than you can bare?, Surely if someone is to the point of suicide, they are at that time in a totally different frame of mind to normal, the depression or whatever has got to a level where they are not thinking clearly anyway and reasoning is messed up.

None of us know what goes on in the minds of someone who suicides at that time of doing it. as none of us have done it..no matter even if we almost have..we have not got to that limit..or otherwise we wouldnt be here now.

Judas suicided.hanged himself by the description given, Do people think he wasn't remorseful of the actions he had to do? Do people think he wasn't totally sorrowful and depressed out of his mind for doing what he did? If you don't think he was repentent before he died..your kidding.

3Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself
One must ask the question in most cases , what/who causes so much pain/depression/anxiety to another that would cause them to leave all loved ones to be out of the world. It could be ones partner, family,church, ‘friend’, bully etc , but most times in todays world, suicide is a process of some other person’s action to destroy the will of the one suiciding. Is that not the one that should more likely be judged.
Besides most people don’t know even if a person talked to god before they do it. God knows their reason anyway, no matter what ignorant people think or judge about it.
Even murder is forgivable and while under grace laws are nothing anyway
Did not Adam partake of suicide indirectly? He was told by god that he would surely die if he took of the fruit, he did. One could even argue that Jesus did as well indirectly, as he knew they would kill him and unlike all other times did not run, one could argue that as a form of suicide, as much as murderers today who do not want to go to jail use ‘suicide by cop’ to get police to shoot them to save doing it themselves.
Those who are all righteous about suicide being punishable and one cannot be saved because of it are ignorant , wrong and downright embarrassing. If this is the mind of a so called chrsitian no wonder others want nothing to do with Christianity. And if their ‘’god’’ is such an unrighteous god with no love, then who would want a god like that, It reminds me of those who have a god of eternal punishment.. who would want such a tyrant god anyway.
 
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Wait, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable?? Where does it say this?

I mean, there are plenty of people in the Bible who has committed blasphemies against Christ, but repented and became important people in the early church. What of these people???


Anyway, to the issue of suicide- I don't believe it is "unforgivable." It certainly is not the right choice, but we ALL make poor decisions every once in a while, and try to solve things ourselves instead of going to God. Suicide is one way of doing that, and while it is certainly more sad, it is not more evil. And plus, if suicide (killing yourself) sent you strait to Hell, what about some odd circumstances?

#1- You attempt to kill yourself. While you lay there bleeding, you ask forgiveness. You haven't died yet, but you've already effectively committed the sin. Does this send you to Hell or not?
#2- You step out in front of a car (that you didn't see coming) one day. You technically killed yourself. Hell???
#3- You attempt to kill yourself by cutting your wrists. Someone finds you and you get hospitalization. However, a coupla weeks down the road you get an infection and die, because of your attempted suicide. What happens then?!!?


The entire idea of suicide sending you to Hell is flawed, both scripturally and logically.
 
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GospelOnly I was too disgusted by peoples responses. It mostly demonized the act itself and if history is a good judge of what people will do now that only reinforces people who are in a bad place to commit suicide since doing so would make them feel even more worse and add onto their feelings of self hatred. Instead what needs to be focused on is how to incorporate people who feel society has left them out show them love and that they are worth something.
 
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GospelOnly I was too disgusted by peoples responses. It mostly demonized the act itself and if history is a good judge of what people will do now that only reinforces people who are in a bad place to commit suicide since doing so would make them feel even more worse and add onto their feelings of self hatred. Instead what needs to be focused on is how to incorporate people who feel society has left them out show them love and that they are worth something.
yeah Well said Dawn,
Love is the reason Jesus came and the whole point of anything.. Not much shown in some of the comments on this topic here and other places it is disgussed..It is indeed no wonder people get to the point they get to.
Its also hard to not get angry at some veiws on the topic when it its close to home too.
 
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Wait, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable?? Where does it say this?

I mean, there are plenty of people in the Bible who has committed blasphemies against Christ, but repented and became important people in the early church. What of these people???


Anyway, to the issue of suicide- I don't believe it is "unforgivable." It certainly is not the right choice, but we ALL make poor decisions every once in a while, and try to solve things ourselves instead of going to God. Suicide is one way of doing that, and while it is certainly more sad, it is not more evil. And plus, if suicide (killing yourself) sent you strait to Hell, what about some odd circumstances?

#1- You attempt to kill yourself. While you lay there bleeding, you ask forgiveness. You haven't died yet, but you've already effectively committed the sin. Does this send you to Hell or not?
#2- You step out in front of a car (that you didn't see coming) one day. You technically killed yourself. Hell???
#3- You attempt to kill yourself by cutting your wrists. Someone finds you and you get hospitalization. However, a coupla weeks down the road you get an infection and die, because of your attempted suicide. What happens then?!!?


The entire idea of suicide sending you to Hell is flawed, both scripturally and logically.
A good post also, well said
 
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ok so this is a very diverse and interesting topic to talk about. suicide.. if a christian that is saved commits suicide would they go to heaven or hell. ok floor is open.. what do you think and why? do you have scripture to back it up?
Deuteronomy 5:17 "You shall not murder"

Knew GOD' s word and yet defeated,commiting suicide is killing...and no more chance to repent.probably you're going to hell.
i did once thought of that word,(because of my stupid love) but thanks GOD! HE reminded me of His words.how to be in hell!
 
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Deuteronomy 5:17 "You shall not murder"

Knew GOD' s word and yet defeated,commiting suicide is killing...and no more chance to repent.probably you're going to hell.
i did once thought of that word,(because of my stupid love) but thanks GOD! HE reminded me of His words.how to be in hell!


Murder is NOT killing for starters.

Murder is what people do to ‘other’ people,
Kill is what people do when ordered by god to do it.

Where in the bible does it say murder is either??? Yet Another opinion without any scripture to back that false opinion up.

Newsflash.. Hell is the grave..we all go there, Its about who gets resurrected out of there and judged worthy that matters. Unless of course you believe in that torturous god that many sects believe in these days.

I posted verses above that show Judas repented before he died. If you can find a verse that shows that verse to be a lie. Please do

Would be nice if opinions were left out of such a delicate topic though.

Like i said before. No wonder people get to the point of suicide when the lack of love and judgemental people cast stones . They must be perfect to do so and have no sin at all.
 
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Wait, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable?? Where does it say this? I mean, there are plenty of people in the Bible who has committed blasphemies against Christ, but repented and became important people in the early church. What of these people???
Jesus answers that specifically. Matthew 12 has:

Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, "Could this be the Son of David?" But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

"Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Obviously, there's been a lot of discussion about precisely what it means to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. In any case, it's probably not suicide.
 
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I believe that it is hard to say. No one knows an individuals heart except God. We could sit here and debate this topic but ulitmately ,He has the judgement. However, the bible does talk about protecting our bodies. Our bodies are God's temple. We are supposed to protect and take care of that temple. Therefore, it would seem to me that suicide would be doing the opposite. Plus, God gave everyone life for a reason. If God is truely inside of someone, then I can't see any reason why someone would kill themselves. So, even though I lean more towards the idea that yes, people who commit suicide go to hell, I still think that no one really knows that except God. He knows our hearts inside and out.
 
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Calvina


Murder is NOT killing for starters.

Murder is what people do to ‘other’ people,
Kill is what people do when ordered by god to do it.

Where in the bible does it say murder is either??? Yet Another opinion without any scripture to back that false opinion up.

Newsflash.. Hell is the grave..we all go there, Its about who gets resurrected out of there and judged worthy that matters. Unless of course you believe in that torturous god that many sects believe in these days.

I posted verses above that show Judas repented before he died. If you can find a verse that shows that verse to be a lie. Please do

Would be nice if opinions were left out of such a delicate topic though.

Like i said before. No wonder people get to the point of suicide when the lack of love and judgemental people cast stones . They must be perfect to do so and have no sin at all.
hi brother,first i want to ask you whats the difference of murder and killing.isn't the result the same? death? suicide is killing yourself which is not really our own.who are we.do we have rights to stop the breathing of this physical body.we just borrowed this body.since we are christian,we knew right and wrong.we know what please GOD and things HE abhor.

Mark 9:40,42-50
for whoever is not against us is for us.
And if anyone causes one of these little thing ones who believe in me to sin,it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.if your hand causes you to sin,cut it off.it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell,where the fire never goes out.and if your foot causes you to sin,cut it off.it is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.and if your eye causes you to sin,pluck it out.it is better for you to enter the Kingdom of GOD with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,where their worm does not die,and the fire is not quenched.
Everyone will be salted with fire.Salt is good,but if it loses its saltiness,how can you make it salty again?Have salt in yourselves,and be at peace with each other.
 
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Word says not to say who goes where. Good enough for me. Hey didnt Samson commit suicide???
 
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The only people who believe suicide is an unforgivable sin are Roman Catholics.They have a false doctrine based on tradition instead of actual scripture when it comes to that.
The Catechism states:

We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance.
If someone differs from this teaching and insists that suicide is unforgivable, then they're not in line with the official teachings of the RCC and shouldn't be used as a representative. There are numerous Catholics who believe God can forgive as he wills.
 
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hi brother,first i want to ask you whats the difference of murder and killing.isn't the result the same? death? suicide is killing yourself which is not really our own.who are we.do we have rights to stop the breathing of this physical body.we just borrowed this body.since we are christian,we knew right and wrong.we know what please GOD and things HE abhor.


As I said before Killing was ordered by God, and Murder isn’t. Same result yes.. death. Suicide is neither murder or killing for god. Yet same result also.. death. Do we have the rights to stop the breathing of the physical body.. only if God ordained. However knowing ‘right’ from ‘wrong’ has nothing to do with salvation, unless its who is the ‘right’ god and who is the ‘wrong’ god..then its important.
God is no more pleased in somebody kicking a cat than he is murdering a human. Humans rate sin, God doesn’t. All sin is bad in God’s eye, and All people do it. To say murdering is worse than kicking the cat is human rating of sin. God says if you go by the law then if you break one you break them all. If you have disobeyed your parents then you have murdered if you go by law. Break one you break them all.
Hence my point... laws are done away with, because they never saved anyone,only faith saves..and suicide has nothing at all to do with faith. As someone mentioned Samson suicided, he was a king, Judas was one of Jesus selected apostles, Adam and Eve also knew right from wrong yet decided to suicide by eating the fruit..and jesus himself knew he was going to die and let it happen. If you are condemning suicide you are basically calling many godly people sinners even Christ. A dangerous thing to do.
Many of the bible fathers murdered, suicide is not harming anyone else physically..only yourself.. yet those fathers murdered many people and not ordered by god.. Tell me which in human judgement is worse?
We are not saved by our deeds.. we are saved by our faith and belief in the true jesus and need to know his nature fully. Anything else is moot. And nothing to do with salvation. We are not jews who live and die by their laws.
 
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Romans 1212

I believe that it is hard to say. No one knows an individuals heart except God. We could sit here and debate this topic but ulitmately ,He has the judgement. However,

Why say however?
After saying the above why go against your belief above? Or are you trying to convince yourself what you said above isn’t correct?

the bible does talk about protecting our bodies. Our bodies are God's temple. We are supposed to protect and take care of that temple. Therefore, it would seem to me that suicide would be doing the opposite. Plus, God gave everyone life for a reason. If God is truely inside of someone, then I can't see any reason why someone would kill themselves. So, even though I lean more towards the idea that yes, people who commit suicide go to hell, I still think that no one really knows that except God. He knows our hearts inside and out.

People overeat, eat bad things, drink bad things, smoke, do drugs, don’t exercise as they should, play sports that could injure us, don’t take medication needed etc etc..one could argue that this is not looking after that ‘temple’ either. We all do it though.
Yes god gave us all life, he also gave us all a free will to do as we wish, otherwise we are just puppets.

But really anyone who can say they are doing everything perfectly don’t need Christ as a sacrifice anyway.they have their perfect selves for that.
If one cannot see why someone kills themselves that is very fortunate for them..and they have most likely had a good life with not much dramas or stress. However that is not the case with many and until you walk in someones shoes you cannot judge where their mind is at . Judge how you would like jesus to judge you because that is how it will be.

As for going against your first sentence by lastly saying that you ‘lean towards suiciders going to hell’, Everyone goes to hell. Righteous or continual sinners. Ted bundy is in hell just as Jesus was in hell.

The question should really be.. will suicide lose salvation, in which the answer is a simple NO. It won’t lose salvation anymore than murder or kicking that cat. Salvation for a Christian is solely based on faith alone, not what one does, and especially not what one does in the ‘incorrect ‘ judgements of humans.

If we were to all judge ourselves to make it to god.. NONE of us would make it thats for sure.

Infact the way peoples hearts are hard and so judgemental I doubt many will make it in jesus’ judgement, considering it will be based on faith and belief in the truth.. not who has done bad things.. and again.. we are not jews under any laws ever.
 
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Originally Posted by DABEARS85

The only people who believe suicide is an unforgivable sin are Roman Catholics.They have a false doctrine based on tradition instead of actual scripture when it comes to that.

The RCC has false doctrine on everything
 
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Hi Gospel..good day.Brother,i do believed that we were saved by His Grace through faith.Ephesians 2:10- 'For it is by grace you have been saved,through faith-and this not from yourselves,it is the gift of GOD-not by works,so that no one can boast.For we are GOD's workmanship,created in CHRIST JESUS to do good works,which GOD prepared in advance for us to do.

is it because we know GOD is so good,faithful,His love is unconditional that we will keep on sinning? is suicide not a sin? isn't HE punished the people during Noah's time because HE no longer tolerate the wickedness of the people? even after the floods still sins continued so GOD sent HIS Son JESUS to Redeem us,to save us from our sins..though JESUS Himself preach, still some people didn't believed Him.

Luke 6:46-49
Why do you call me,'LORD,LORD',and do not do what i say?I will show you what he is like who come to me and hears my words and puts them into practice.he is like a man building a house,who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock.when a flood came,the torrent struck that house but could not shake it,because it was well built.but the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation.the moment the torrent struck that house,it collapsed and its destruction was complete.
 
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Hi Gospel..good day.Brother,i do believed that we were saved by His Grace through faith.Ephesians 2:10- 'For it is by grace you have been saved,through faith-and this not from yourselves,it is the gift of GOD-not by works,so that no one can boast.For we are GOD's workmanship,created in CHRIST JESUS to do good works,which GOD prepared in advance for us to do.

Hi Calvina,
I do also believe we are saved by grace because of our faith, and should do what is right,,in which love is what is right. That is the message jesus delivered.. Love. (hard to do a lot of the times, but if we muck it up, we are easily forgiven no matter how often we muck up). That is the basic salvation message. I do not believe laws or commandments have much part of salvation for gentile Christians (which I am) I don’t speak for jewish chrsitians. So in essence I believe we try to love.. no other law or comm has to be kept and as for the old laws are nothing to do with Christianity at all. So what im saying is salvation has nothing to do with anything we do, its to do with what we believed as well as loving ‘others’.

is it because we know GOD is so good,faithful,His love is unconditional that we will keep on sinning? is suicide not a sin? isn't HE punished the people during Noah's time because HE no longer tolerate the wickedness of the people? even after the floods still sins continued so GOD sent HIS Son JESUS to Redeem us,to save us from our sins..though JESUS Himself preach, still some people didn't believed Him.


Interesting point you say there ‘his love is unconditional’ which goes against some people on here that believe god could burn people forever in a fire. Hardly a thing an unconditional loving god would do to even the worst creation. Anyway..his love is unconditional that he will forgive all sins if we are repentant, Christ came to destroy sin.
The flood time..people were doing all sorts of things as they did in the days of Sodom, bad things to each other. It wasn’t anything to do with what people did to themselves.. loving others has nothing to do with loving self. God didn’t tolerate their wickedness back then and destroyed almost all of them..as he will again soon to this generation. Even murderers have can and always will be able to have salvation.
I actually believe a lot of murderers will come to god and have salvation over millions that claim they know god. Fact is most churches these days don’t go by faith..they still live in commandments and laws that are against faith..which is against gods grace..and although they may be mr and mrs good citizen.they simply arnt believing the word of god and cannot have salvation. While there are on the other hand people out there that are doing some really bad stuff and all they have to do is realize true grace by faith and they will be with god..(remember the thief just to name one of the many in the bible) another one that just needed to click the faith part was the eunich. Both knew their scriptures but sometimes it needs a click to understand that its all about faith, not works..works never saved anyone never will..nor did commandments or laws.
 
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GospelOnly I agree with you, it seems like a lot of people are trying to use the bible as an excuse to not love each other and to further their hate. Which is why I don't understand why people make laws against loving other people and doing other things thinking that is what God wants of them. It only makes Christians look bad.
 
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GospelOnly I agree with you, it seems like a lot of people are trying to use the bible as an excuse to not love each other and to further their hate. Which is why I don't understand why people make laws against loving other people and doing other things thinking that is what God wants of them. It only makes Christians look bad.
Likewise Dawn.. I agree with you on all of that.

Sad isn't it?

Human nature.. such a lovely thing lol
 
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Likewise Dawn.. I agree with you on all of that.

Sad isn't it?

Human nature.. such a lovely thing lol
Yes it is most sad.

I think if people had proper role models that taought love instead of hate then the world would be a better place. I'm a flower child, at heart. :)