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Suicide
So my boyfriend brought up an interesting topic last night and i just wanted to know some oppinions. If you commit suicide and youre a good person do you really go to hell? and why?
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Because you are selfishly taking someone's life. Just because its yours and not someone else's doesn't mean God thinks any less of it.
Suicide is the ultimate selfish act. The elevation of yourself and your pain above everyone and everything you know in your life.
People have a need for each other. These needs force us to form bonds with others, we are not OK alone. When you kill yourself, you selfishly sever those bonds. You show people that your whims are more important to you than they are.
It harms those around you, bonds broken leave wounds. And when one of us gives up everything they have to failure by choice, it diminishes us all.
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I grew up Christian but never really spent my time reading the Bible though that is what I heard as well. Suicide is considered a sin, so ultimately when you commit a sin, you go to hell.
However, you can usually ask for forgiveness. But, when you're dead, you can't ask for it. See how that works?
Basically, no one really knows. I would read the Bible or ask a priest or someone you know who is highly religious. Maybe a grandparent or something.
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'm going to assume you really want a Christian answer... but I'll give you a few other as well.
However, there is no definite answer to this question. Even if you look to the Bible; Some suicides were said to be damned, others weren't.
If you are looking for a definite, complete answer, you are shit out of luck. If there was one, we'd all agree and get it. We don't, and there isn't.
Most Jewish groups would say suicide is forbidden to a Jew, but there isn't really an official statement on whether or not it's a one-way-ticket to hell. The concept of hell embraced by most Jews is very different from the 'eternal damnation' idea of Christians. 'Hell' is generally not seen as a permanent situation.
Of the three major semantic religions, it's actually only Islam that flat-out commands you may NOT commit suicide. (You might not think it, but there it is.)
"And do not kill yourselves, surely Allah is most Merciful to you."
Pretty much all mainstream Muslim scholars consider suicide completely forbidden under any circumstances by Islam.
As for the Christians: According to many Christian sects, suicide is a mortal sin, so suicides go to hell. Suicide in these faiths is considered self-murder, and an unrepentant murderer is damned. The Catholic Church, the Anglican and Orthodox sects all officially take this view. Suicide is a rejection of God's plan for you and an unconfessed mortal sin. You go to hell for that.
Other sects, like most kinds of Protestants and the United Church, think that anyone who is 'saved' and has given themselves over to Jesus is still saved, regardless of anything that they do.
You can easily find verses from the Bible to support either view. Some talk of having to have a steadfast endurance of suffering in order to truly achieve eternal life and that the murderer is always damned... others imply once you are saved you are always saved.
As with most things, you are just going to have to go do some reading and make up your own mind on this one.
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