(June 30, 2017 at 7:43 pm)Lek Wrote: People don't go to hell for committing suicide, but for refusing God's offer of salvation. Yes, suicide is considered sinful because our lives belong to God. A follower of Christ shouldn't consider suicide. The problem is we don't know what the state of a person's mind is at that point and are not equipped to make a judgement concerning that person's salvation. If a person says "God, I know what your will is, but I don't care" I would think that he doesn't want salvation and won't have it. If his mind is messed up, as is the case of many suicide victims, who knows?
That's a little hard to justify, scripturally speaking, if you accept that 'thou shalt do no murder' includes murdering yourself. This makes suicide a mortal sin which cannot be forgiven because the sinner is unable to repent.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
