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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so my answer would be “no”.
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I think these days you need to go way more hard-core than that.
Christianity is spelled with a capital C just like Islam has a capital I because its out of respect for the religion. Based on what context you use Hell depends on the capitalization. If you use it only as a proper name or in the context of religion then it’s caps. Otherwise, lowercase.
Usually you go to Hell if you commit suicide because you disrupt the plan that God had for you and you performed one of the ultimate sins. According to western religions it’s evil but I don’t know how eastern religions treat it.
Oh yeah, blahblahblahmonke, if you want to be sent to Hell then just be yourself. Don’t believe in God, don’t follow any religion and do what ever you want. You’ll go to Hell for sure then.
I don’t believe you do. I see us all as God’s children, and no one would want his child to go there. Are you or someone close to you thinking of suicide?
Thanks :-).
WhiskeyMac, if you read this again, what are the other ‘ultimate sins’? And how would you know if God’s plan hadn’t been for you to kill yourself all along?! Hmmm … so you’d go to Hell anyway, just for not being religious? That seems a little harsh. I’m quite … ummm … moral, would that not count for a thing???
I think in Islam it’s considered an even bigger evil than it is in Christianity, but I don’t know about any other religions (and what I do know comes from GCSE short course RS … so … y’know).
thehappycanuc, if you read this again(!), do you mean that NO ONE goes to Hell, even … I don’t know … people who’ve done really horrific things? Surely they’re God’s children too?
If this comes across like I’m trying to challenge your views, either of you, I’m … well, not. I just want to understand :-).
I’d really appreciate any “answers”!
Christianity:
Everyone is a sinner
Everyone who is a sinner goes to Hell
God had Jesus die for our sins so if you put your trust in that, and believe what He did and repent from your sins and put God in the center of your life, then you go to Heaven. He already paid the price for you not being perfect.
The catholic church teaches you go to Hell if you commit suicide, but the Bible doesn’t say that. I go with the bible. It’s valid and reliable and testable. Hope you believe me, and test it out for yourself.
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Well, if you would outline your definite religious beliefs for us, that would really help us answer your question. I personally believe that suicide is an immoral act, but that if there is an all-loving God, he will forgive us for everything, by definition. I also believe that an all-loving, omnipotent God could not create something less than perfect, including humankind. Humankind is obviously imperfect, therefore if there is a God, he is not both all-loving and omnipotent, and possibly neither. Either way, I refuse to worship such a being.
Unfortunately the only people who get to go to heaven without needing to accept Christ are children and mentally challenged people. But sometimes even those people can go to hell. It depends on their age of awareness. Basically, once someone knows the difference between right and wrong, and knows that doing wrong is … well … wrong, then they can go to hell if they don’t accept Jesus as their savior. If someone doesn’t have the mental capacity to determine that difference then they get a free pass. So I’m pretty sure that animals go to heaven too. Even cockroaches.
Oh yeah, God would never have suicide as part of your lifeplan. He might have you sacrifice yourself by jumping a suicide bomber and saving a group of kids (because one of those kids might grow up to be the next Billy Graham or your example might end suicide bombers forever, etc.) but he wouldn’t have you slit your wrists in a bathtub. I believe that if you are a Christian before you commit suicide then he will forgive you for the act of suicide but he’ll just be a little disappointed in you when you get to heaven.
I can only think of one other “ultimate sin” (btw, I didn’t mean to make it seem like their was a huge list) and that’s preaching that Satan has done the work of Christ, or something similar to that. Can’t remember right now.
@ Kadoo: God may be an omnipotent, all-loving supreme being but he still has rules. He gave us free choice so that we aren’t robots and so with that free choice we can sin against him or we can serve him. He will forgive us of everything as long as we choose to swallow our pride and accept him as the ruler of our hearts and minds. If you wanna talk about it, shout me or something.
You go to hell if you are an unforgiven sinner. If, at any time in your life, you come to Christ, confess yourself a sinner, repent, and ask Him to save you, then you become a child of God. No child of God goes to hell. You have been forgiven for all the sins that you commit in your lifetime, and you are cleansed from the sin nature which causes you to sin. Christians should not happily continue to sin without any struggle against it, but Christians do still sin.
People may commit suicide because they are mentally ill or in a very dire situation. Suicide is not what God wants you to do, but if you belong to Him, you are forgiven and will never go to hell. If you do not belong to Him, you will go to hell when you die, regardless of how you died.
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will you go too hell if you kill your self but u believe in god? i need help in this email me the ansers
im not sure wat to say…but this is wat my dad tells me, u will ********** because u r not thankfull for the life that God gave u and to show it, u kill urself
Just don’t think that life is bad. Count your blessings. There’s always someone who’s willing to trade places with you. I’m a Christian I belive that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. It’s not to say that I do what I want,that I’m perfect, or people are always perfect towards me; I’m trying to say that no one has a perfect life. Everybody has something to deal with no matter who you are. Suicide, or hurting another person or people is negative. Have you ever thought of any positive solutions? If suicide is you problem you should seek professional help. There’s someone waiting to share your burdened heart. I f it’s a family member or friend, you should tell them to seek professional help. If this is just a thought that you had, you should take what I said into consideration. Especially telling some one to get professional help. You may meet someone in your life who needs to here this. They will feel like somebody cares.
If it’s a problem your dealing with, I want you to know I care about you too. You should try to get involved with Christianpenpals.com. It’s a website for Christians all over the world to contact each other. The people could answer your questions about Christianity and suicide, or give you further help.
To everyone who reads this Jesus died on the cross for all of your evilness. He wants to be their for your every problem. Pray and believe in him. To everyone who reads this, GOD BLESS YOU. May the rest of your life, be the best of your life. To anyone struggling with something, seek professional help. especially if it’s hurting someone else or yourself. Trust me when I say this because I am a servant of God, the positive solution is what you need and want. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
To: Kadoo Wants A Coker
God is not the reason for the imperfections in the world. There is an evil force that we can not see. The devil is that evil force. God is everything good and perfect. Mankind is a perfect creation from God, but we have been corrupted by the evil one on this Earth.
hi i want to go away from this world. I had a path that I was trying to build, but everything broke apart. so i made my decision to go away from this world today and all i know i would just be gone in a place with no worries.
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**** I hope noooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
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wait i know someone who did shoot himself and boy was it soo scary! funny I’m soo bi-polar its not even funny you no?* um hoping you dont go to **** hell b/c jesus christ we are all ******* gods children!!
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the consequence of suicide is a function of the reason for the act. Under some circumstances it can be the correct thing to do. If the body’s genetic profile is lacking in robustness and functionality death will result in an evolutionary correction of the lacking genetic components. Religion puts a major bottle neck on evolution. One must be clear and focused on the next life. Suicide is only used as a last resort. This is what i beleive. Remember what doesn’t kill you can only make you stronger!!
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If someone commits suicide they will go to hell. If you die and have any sin at all on you then you will go to hell. It is one of the ten commandments that thou shalt not kill. If you kill yourself then that sin will be on you when you die and obviously you can`t have time to ask for forgiveness. Suicide should never ever be used as a way out of a situation or problem. This world and the devil is full of evil and lies and will fool you into thinking your taking an easy out. But people hell is real and it will be more painful and sorrowful then this earth. Luckily, we all have the promise of God and life with him for ever and ever.I think everyone would commit suicide if they would go to heaven with the pull of a trigger, but that is not the case. I have seen God work in peoples lives and bring them out of depression and bad situations. God is here for you…just run to him. He loves you so much and will never leave you. Please I encourage you to pick up a bible and read. Let God come into your life and with him you can do all things. God loves you more than you could ever know, no matter what you have done, he loves and died for you. When he was on the cross he look out and saw you and died for every sin you have ever committed along with mine and everyone elses.
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I think you wont go to hell but you wont go to heaven either i think that you just die im not saying theres no god i believe in him but if there is a heaven or hell i think god should respect our oppinon on what we do we are all his children.
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Thanks everyone that was a dumb question life just gets tough sometimes I should defintley count my blessing
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I have never seen anyone return after killing themselves to ask them.
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Shroye you can’t possibly believe that if there is any sin on you when you die that you go to hell. I’m sorry but you couldn’t even come close to asking for repentance for every sin in your life at any oint in your life except to say fogive me for everything that I have done or will do in my life, and you can do that before you pull the trigger. Thats way too many to actally remember. All you can do is trust in King Jesus and in Gods love for us. I mean I do believe that you have to whole heartedly try to live a life that pleases God and practice elf control, but your still gonna stumble. I can’t really tell you where you would go if ou commited suicide and I think it’s foolish to try and think that we actually know what God would do. I try not to think too much about what I think God would do if I did this or that. It will eat you up because we will always fall short of his Glory. He says our good deeds are like dirty rags to him. The only thing that mkes us right with him is to believe in his son and what he has done for us. He says like the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my ways hgher than yours, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
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Mental illness is a serious problem, if someone ends up killing themselves because of this ILLNESS, I believe there are ways GOD will understand and forgive. People are not perfect and the human mind is extremely powerful. Not everyone who kills themselves should be deemed worthless and selfish. THIS IS NOT A SELFISH ILLNESS.
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BIBLICALLY, the answer is NO!
ABSOLUTELY NO WHERE in the Bible does it say “If you kill yourself, you go to hell.” Everyone dies. Some people die of physical illnesses, and others ( like people who commit suicide) die of mental disorders. Yes, it is in the ten commandments “thou shalt not kill,” but there are also nine other commandments that we all break, often daily. Does this mean we are all going to hell now? Not at all. If you are a child of God your sins are PAID IN FULL, no matter what you do. Now, I am not in ANY way saying that suicide is okay, in most cases it’s a terribly selfish thing to do. But it does not ******** to hell. Being an unforgiven sinner does. The origin of the common belief that people go to hell after suicide actually came from the catholic church. Do your homework, you’ll see.
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we have to look at the bible for this answer, i love me some Jesus, and it doesnt say where you go. one way or the other. there are a lot of ppl that killed themself in the bible but you have to pick it up and ready it. its one of those things God didnt say anything about. there is too much other stuff to worry about. just think of the ppl you leave behind tht you could have helped not be to the point your at. just think!. Trust in the love with all your heart and know that Jesus died for you and he will help you. if your ready to kill yourself what do you have to lose by giving God a turn at fixing your life. you havent done so hot. and he Tells us plan. He will help but we have to let him in. he is not going to force his way into our lives
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I think I can show you verses which suggest that it is a sin to kill yourself. First God tells us not to murder. Period. He does not say don’t murder anyone who doesn’t want to die, He says don’t murder. Here is my point. Is it okay to kill someone if during the fight with them, they come out and tell you to kill them their life sucks anyway? Of course not, it is still murder in God’s eyes. So does it make any difference just because you want to die? I don’t think so. Now let me give you a few of those verses:
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV) [19] Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
(1 Corinthians 3:16-17 NIV) [16] Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? [17] If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God&’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
I think those are pretty clear. If you are a Christian your life and for that matter your body are no longer your own, they were bought with the blood of Christ. Here are two more passages:
(Psalm 39:4 NIV) Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.
(Psalm 139:15-16 NIV) [15] My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, [16] your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
im wondering the same thing, and im hoping to find some answers
Kadoo wants a Coker wrote:
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so my answer would be “no”.
well i think that God is real and u will not go to hell if you believe in God but if u dont then u will
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i beleive in god with all my heart and wonder so many things about aterlife.I beleive that we are all gods children and he loves us all. God forgives everyone. God does not want to send us to hell. The devil drags us down when we make sins. But however if we ask god for forgiveness we will get pulled up again because you are realising that you have made a mistake. And besides God is more powerfull than the Devil and thats why you should ask for forgivesness.If you make alot of sins and dont ask to be forgived then the devil will send you to hell.I beleive that if you kill yourself its a sin because god says its a sin to kill.And also if you kill yourself its not being thanfull for the life god gave us. But im sure He will forgive us anyway because remember God forgives everything we do if we ask for forgivesness. If a person kills themself because they are mentally ill i dont see why god sould not forgive them, because they can’t controll themself. But! however remember. there is not just heaven and hell… there is also pergetry, which is one of the hells (there is not just one hell) you go to pergetry if you have done somthing bad but you diddnt regret it or somthing like that. So i think people who kill themself or commit suicide go to Pergetry. i dont know what it is but i think there is such place. i have also heared of a hell called Limbo but i think thats for children who havnt been baptised. But i dont know everything do i? so maybe not everything i said on this is true but thats for you to decide. Im not going to tell you what to beleive but im just saying my opinion. Its been a pleasure to help :)
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no you do not go to hell sin is sin not one sin is greater than another and alll sin is forgiven through jesus christ as long as you belive in and love jesus christ no matter what you do you go to heaven
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God doesn’t exist. Once you die, you rot in the ground. That’s it. Don’t get your hopes up for heaven, and don’t worry about hell. Live your life for today, and for yourself.
i have a friend and he recently took his own life away. he was a great person. made everyone laugh. and he even got along with teachers. when one of my teachers would get a headache he would go to a gas station during school and get her a coke or anything that would help her. no one really knows why he did it. but i really want to find out if under some circumstances can u do that and still go to heaven? i think this question will be bothering me for the rest of my life. and im 15 years old so that will be for a long time. i just want someone that knows what they’re talking about to answer my question.
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If God is real in the end, and Hell exists, I guess my future is going to be filled with torture. I am sorry for everyone that has ever committed suicide, for what ever reason they have. I know I have logic on my side with my decision to do so, but I still would like to believe that there is someone to shepherd all of the people that had blessed lives and never got upset. But what I do is so that others may sustain themselves off of the resources that I waste. The future is going to record many people taking their lives in a very similar fashion, sometimes it is just for the best when you give up and move out of the way for other people.
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I don’t think anyone who commits suicide is in their right mind. :( I lost a good friend last friday to it. Extremely wonderful person, but inside something was killing and eating away her. She was being treated for depression and possibly other mental conditions, apparently unsucessfully. I know what it’s like to go through trial and error medicines. It took two years to get mine right. And there were times i wanted to jump off a bridge as well. Those have to also be considered. I don’t think He wanted anyone to feel that way, and I believe HE loves us ALL. I have to believe that in a situation where you are unsucessfully treated, you are forgiven. I want to believe. I miss her so dearly. So in response to the question, I don’t think their can be any definite answer, and just because some Pope decided to make the rule, kill yourself -> go to hell, it doesn’t make it Gods rule. Who are we to know if everything in the bible is actually transcribed perfectly, forgive me if it is, I just know how hard it is for me to actually remember conversations. But then again, divine intervention can implant the entire book in the deciples mind i am sure. We want to believe suicide doesn’t send you to hell, we need to in many cases. Our loved ones are our loved ones, and the promise of seeing them when it is our time is all we can hope for.
Don’t do it. SUICIDE is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
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i hate my self so much! everyone says i have stupd brain even my dad i wish i could just go fly and no one would no where id go and i would be so free and so flowy and laid back with no stress no friends no love just peace and then i would dissappear now that would be the greatest thing that would happen to me i honestly dont care anymore if i go to hell or not if god hates me go ahead send me to hell pshhh like hes real i lost my faith at such a young age ( 9)
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Why do some accounts say: deactivated? Did the person kill themselves or make the wrong remarks? I no longer want to be part of this “HELL ON EARTH”… this is the HELL that I believe truly exists.
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all sins have the same value, none is greater. God always gives you a second chance no matter what the sin is. You’ll always have the chance to accept him, suicide or not. He won’t be disappointed, he loves everyone equally.
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this is the question that always stops me.
i wish i had faith.
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