Does
someone go to hell for committing suicide?
Those
who are adamant that a person who takes his life is committing a mortal sin,
and will go to hell, are basing their belief on church doctrine rather than on
the Bible. Scripture is silent on the subject. There are no verses that say, He
who takes his own life shall be damned. According to scripture, only one sin
does not have forgiveness, and that is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (Mark 3:29-30).
That means there is forgiveness for every other sin.
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never
forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Mark 3:29-30 (KJV)
It’s a downward
path that people can find themselves on if they get hurt by someone. It goes
like this, Hurt, Rejection, Self-Pity, Resentment, Anger, Bitterness grows and
it becomes Hatred, brings with it Depression and Suicide. You can see it
happening in Scriptures, if you follow the life of King Saul, he felt rejected,
he felt hurt by his people “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands”.
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel 18:7 (KJV)
So, he
felt rejected and he became bitter and he got deep depression and he eventually
committed suicide. “It’s something you need to shake off” Some quote (1
Corinthians 3:17) which says that God will destroy someone who defiles the
temple of the Holy Spirit, Yet, there is disagreement about what it means to
defile the temple. Does this include suicide? Does it include illicit drug
abuse (slow suicide), prescription drug abuse, cigarettes (deliberately
breathing in poisons that will eventually kill), tattoos, overeating or alcohol
abuse?
God
forbid that we add to the pain of someone who has lost a loved one through the
tragedy of suicide.
If we
are genuine followers of Christ and have been “born again” (John 3:3) the answer
is no to does someone go to hell for committing suicide, because we are saved
not by what we do, we are saved not by keeping the law, we are saved not by
living perfect lives, we are saved by the grace of God alone, through faith
alone, in Christ alone.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)
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