Suicide

 What does God say about Suicide?


    I have grown up on the common saying "If you commit suicide then you're going to Hell!". So I have always believed that and so does many others. But recently I watched a speech on suicide and it was a preachers daughter who committed suicide. And he said she might be in a better place but I want her here next to me. So if he was referring the "better place" to be heaven, then is what we learned as kids not true? 

    So I asked my Old Testament teacher the same question that's been on my mind for days after that speech "If you commit suicide do you go to Hell?". This was his response; 

    "I think it is a question a lot of students have. If one believes that the God revealed in the Bible is a God of love who is especially concerned for those who are hurting and in pain (as I do), and if one recognizes that anyone who commits suicide has to be living in a realm of unimaginable hurt and pain, then surely one can conclude that God’s love Is especially with such persons. As I said in class, I know of no place in the Bible where suicide is explicitly said to be something that damns one to hell. We need to do everything we can to prevent suicide. That means helping hurting people. We have no business being judgmental toward those who are in a darkness so deep that they see no alternative to taking their own life.  That’s my view on it, anyway."

Let's Talk About Suicide and The Cross | Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church - Michigan - 48154 

The Cross and Suicide


    St. John Vianney, the famous parish priest of Ars, France, once encountered a woman who was very troubled. Her irreligious husband had died after jumping from a bridge. She worried he was in hell. When he encountered her near his church, Fr. Vianney had no way of knowing about this unfortunate situation, except by a special grace from God. He whispered into her ear the words “he is saved!” The woman was taken aback, so Fr. Vianney repeated himself, saying “I tell you he is saved! He is in purgatory, and you must pray for him. Between the parapet of the bridge and the water he had time to make an act of contrition.” The woman was greatly comforted by this revelation. We can find comfort in it, as well.


 

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