Why is suicide sinful?
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Hell is a place in the astral world, where all souls are "living"in agony and some kind of hopeless faith.God is not punishing You, when you are suiciding You, because you have done it. But we are all here have to fullfill our destiny. And our destiny is a part in a giant Masterplan, where we have our role to play.We have to meet people and we have to realise projects. When you commit suicide, you are leaving your place.That means you have stolen experiences of other people who cannot fullfill their destiny because you are not playing your role anymore in the future. That is the sin. You are a thief. You had to be to a special place to a special time to do a special thing in the future, and because you are death now, and nobody can replace You, you have stolen to the other person a very important experience, who cannot be replaced....
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Ok first of all....LMAO at The Wanderer.\nNow that that's out of the way....The Bible doesn't speak directly about suicide. It kinda lingers on the Sixth Commandment of Thou shalt not murder. But it doesn't say suicide is unforgivable either, The only sins unforgivable to God are rejecting Christ and blaspheming the Holy Spirit. But it's a complex issue not to be taken lightly
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Too many people believe it's a sin and you'll go to hell for suicide.  Others believe than you should have the right to terminate your own life with dignity when it becomes unbearable.  And then there is the issue of those who are too ill to speak for themselves and have not left an advance directive (or living will).  So... oppression because of religion, again!
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Not that i believe in that logic at all, but I think it has to do with the fact murderers have time to repent their sin, while a suicide does not.
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Hi Bluetike! :) \n\nCome to God just as u are. (dont wait until you are "good enough").  remmber God came for sinners not for the righteous. :) if you have surrendered ur life to Him, all u need is for u to restore ur relationship w/ Him. just confess all your sins and He is faithful to forgive you.. \n\ndont attempt to commit suicide again. ul regret it in eternity. :) God bless
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I understand what your point is, but I also think that when a person is going through ideas of suicide, the person's judgment is not at its best at all.  It may seem like a solution to problems at that moment, but when a person goes into that mindframe, it is good for another person to help take over and not let something bad happen.\nA friend of mine killed herself by hanging herself. She must have felt there was no way she could deal with her life or be happy. I would not want my friends to live that way, but I also think that dark moods will pass and there will come other things and chances in life to bring more happiness. My friend will never know what those things could have been. I don't know if I'd call her "selfish" for killing herself. But I don't think she chose the best way to handle her grief.
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Technically it would fall under the definition of suicide.  Suicide includes things like a soldier sacrificing his life for the sake of others.  So, if Jesus was indeed a god omnipotent omniscient god, then he would have known that by doing certain things he would bring about his own earthly death (kinda like suicide by cop).  I doubt you'll get any christians who will admit that it can be called a suicide.
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The concept of someone dying for our sins goes against all the principles that God has laid on earth for us.  It throws the idea of accountability out the window.  If he truly died for our sins, then there shouldn't be anymore sin.  But the fact is, the world is more corrupt now than ever before.\n\nAlso, after he supposedly died on the cross, he allegedly rose from the dead.  Doesn't that nullify his death and thus nullify the sacrifice??  He's no longer dead, so my sins are no longer washed (that's assuming the concept hold to begin with).\n\nIt doesn't add up.  One day we will all face God and we will be held accountable for every little deed, good or bad.  God will ask Jesus whether he instructed people to worship him, and Jesus will say 'no'.\n\nAnd God only knows best.
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There is only one unpardonable sin. Rejecting the gospel unto salvation. Jesus refers to this as blasphemy of the Holy Spirit where you equate the work of God's Spirit to the work of Satan.\n\n\nNote: There is no biblical evidence that suicide is the unpardonable sin.
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When I was a Christian, I heard that a suicide could not go to heaven.  Someone in our village was buried outside the churchyard because she had killed herself.  She could not have a church funeral.  I thought this was very wrong.
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Being Christian unfortunately does not stop you from being sinful.  I think just tryint to live the life you want to have, but also being a good example to others is enough.\n\nEveryone is sinful, Christian or not, that is why Jesus died on the cross!
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People are against suicide because it makes them feel bad. They selfishly think of themselves and how bad they will feel about it instead of thinking about ending the suffering of a loved one.
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God is a loving father and as such he can and does forgive any sin.  There are certain individuals in this world who are so sensitive to the vagaries of life that ultimately they find themselves so unable to cope that the only way to find relief is to end this physical existence.  There are other reasons such as clinical depression which could cause the same course of action.  Though such suicides can and do happen, it is not necessarily a reflection of the spiritual status of the individual.  Faith in God is the only requirement for salvation and if such individuals had faith, then they will indeed be forgiven and resurrected in the next world.\n\nAs some people here have stated, the only way to assure you will not survive beyond the death of this physical body is to deny God.  To sin is to deliberately go against the will of God.  To embrace sin as a continual course of action is to become iniquitous.  Sin is unreal to God and such a person who follows the path of sin and iniquity gradually becomes unreal to God as well and does not survive beyond this brief life in the flesh.\n\nCertainly God does not want anyone to commit suicide.  People should make every effort to cope with whatever problems they encounter, including seeking professional help such as counseling.  We only get this opportunity to live and learn as material beings once.  We should make the most of it while we are here.  However, as I said before, if indeed a person does commit that irrevocable act of ending his or her own life, God will forgive.
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This concept comes from the idea that if you don't repent from a sin, that you will go to hell, and that there is no opportunity to repent from commiting suicide. However, most people view repent here as "ask forgiveness." Repent does not mean that. It means change the way you think and act. If we had to ask forgiveness for every sin we ever commit NONE of us would ever go to heaven. Grace is not such a fine line that if you sin, you are lost, if you ask for forgiveness your saved again, sin again and you're lost again, etc. There is another problem with this... There are many ways to commit suicide in which you have time to ask for forgiveness. Jumping off a bridge, for example. While I certainly believe it would be a sin to take your own life, I don't think that one sin would necessarily negate the grace that comes from accepting Jesus as your savior.
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You have a mistaken idea of sin. All people sin. We are human and are affected by our fallen nature.\n\nNot just any sin will send you straight to hell. Only mortal sins can do that. A mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. \n\nFor a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will. \n\nMost of the sins we commit are venial sins. Venial sin is a sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul, as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it. \n\nVenial sin is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent.\n\nPeople die all the time with venial sins on their conscience and they will go to heaven.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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This question has actually come up and been discussed in political and religious circles, regarding real life situation.  A few decades ago, a South American Soccer team's airplane went down in the Andes mountains.  The survivors had no real hope of rescue, and eventually came to the point where they had to decide to either eat the flesh of their dead comrads, or die of starvation.\n\nI seem to recall that all  of them but one ate the human flesh.\n\nThe eventual result was that even the Catholic church, which considers canniballism a grave sin, forgave the survivors, who were told that, in their particular case, no sin was committed.\n\nBut, while most Christian religions consider  suicide a mortal sin, the act of sacraficing onself, to benefit another in not a sin.  On the other hand, for someone to make the choice to sacrafice an OTHER person, to benefit several others, he might still be acused of some form of murder.\n\nSo, the answer will ALWAYS be that it depends.
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Yes.\n\nCatholics believe suicide when committed in full knowledge and deliberate consent is a complete turning away from God (a mortal sin) and will send a person to hell.\n\nThere are 3 conditions of a mortal sin: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent. \n\nWhile suicide (or any kind of murder) is always a grave matter, people who commit suicide may not always have full knowledge of what they're doing. Drugs can definitely impair one's thinking, as can other things, such as diseases, intense pain, or anguish. \n\nTherefore, suicide is not automatically treated as a mortal sin. \n\nWe are commanded by Christ not to judge others so we leave final judgment to God who alone knows each person's heart.\n\nWith love in Christ.