(July 1, 2017 at 9:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(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
The biblical law about not murdering only applied to Israelites killing other Israelites for minor things. It was perfectly fine for them to kill Gentiles for anything and each other for things like picking up sticks on the sabbath.
