This is just my view on the subject - who is the final judge? Is it your Mom or God? It is not up to your Mom to decide if someone goes to heaven or hell. It is up to God. I think God is a lot more forgiving of our mistakes than we are.

What geeogree said. Suicide may be selfish, and I even believe it may be unselfish on certain occasions (Matthew 5:29-30)...but who is to say who is forgiven? That's up to God. Jesus even forgave the two beside him who spat on Him and mocked Him. Everyone is capable of receiving forgiveness. They simply have to reach out and accept that gift. Many people in my church see suicide as the opposite of that: Saying "I don't want that gift, I give up.". Suicide isn't always giving up, though. For someone with mental disabilities like mine, it may give them a chance. If they can do nothing significant in this life, then departure to the next is a necessity. In the next life, they'll be given a resurrected body and will be healed. I really look forward to when I die (although I don't have legitimate reasons enough right now to commit suicide). I often daydream about what the next life will be like. Often, I see the problems of this life and am prone to being depressed. But I realize this life is a test. I will grow stronger by facing these trials head-on. And that will make me all the more stronger in the next life and will give other people a chance to be happier in this life.

Suicide is something I feel really strongly about, so this post may get long on me.

Let's be practical. If Jesus went to all the trouble of living an absolutely perfect life, never sinning once, and died one of the most painful torturous deaths in practice at the time, just so He could give you the chance to spend forever with Him, do you think he'd stop and say 'woah man, I know I died for you and all, but that one thing you did was just too far and I decided my sacrificial life and death no longer apply because of that one thing'?

I don't either, which is why I'm confident that Jesus' payment covers all my sins.

Here's the kicker, though. If we believe Jesus is real, that He actually did die for our sins, and that His payment covers every sin we've made and will ever make (hence being a Christian), then we must therefore accept and act upon what He shares with us in the Bible. In First Corinthians 6: 19-20, Jesus inspires Paul to share that our bodies are temples to God, and God resides within us. In verse 20, we see that we're asked to 'honor God with your bodies'. My question to you is, do you think destroying the temple God has made of you is honoring to God?

As an analogy, let's say that you spend many hours working on a secret project for your friend's birthday. After finnnnnnaaaallllyyy completing it, you give it to him/her at their birthday party. They're elated! Super excited! You feel really good having given them that gift! You know it took a ton of work, and you could have spent that time doing something else, but you're happy with how happy the gift made them, and you know it was worth it.

Then, as soon as they finish thanking you, they purposefully tear a big hole in it, ruining the work you've done. It's their property, as you gave it to them, so they are allowed to ruin it if they want, but it still really hurts you to see that they purposefully ruined your gift. That's kinda how I see suicide. It's saying 'hey God, thanks for those 33 years you suffered and then eventually died an excruciating death just to save me from hell, I'm gonna cut things short and peace out'.

I'm not saying God won't forgive you, I'm saying you'd be hurting Him deeply (believe it or not, God has emotions too!). If you truly are accepting Jesus' gift, then hurting God and/or making light of that gift should be something you avoid.

The only unforgivable sin is to resist forgiveness. The question is then "do people that commit suicide resist forgiveness?" In general, I say yes. Forgiveness is not taking something into your own hands. Forgiveness is giving your guilt to the victim. However, this isn't an absolute thing. I cannot say that all suicide victims are necessarily opposed to forgiveness or outside of God's reach. I can only say that the act is not as open to forgiveness such that a Christian could endorse it.

Txgangsta:                    hi, its not FINAL unless of Man to turn his back of the n Lord.
no longer of to use WEAPONS. ....geeogree....
          hey supernerd117, its great to see you again.
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what up TX?
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Decree of God
Ye shall be the Caretaker of the Earth.
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While committing suicide is forbidden in the Quran, I do believe God forgives a person if they committed suicide, since I believe God loves and forgive everyone. At first I imagine God would be disappointed at the person (I believe God has feelings too!), but eventually God would forgive him/her. God would also be mad at first, because committing suicide is like you're rejecting God's gift: Life, and suicide is a very selfish act. But like I said, God eventually forgives. God doesn't put people in Hell permanently.

greenluigi : Sounds very Christian of you.

Who is to say God is real? Now,hear me out. If there was an all-powerful being that controls everything,would he not be seriously disappointed in us? Or shouldn't he be fired for letting the world end up like this? Now that is out of the way,I would think He would. Suicide might be the only way out of a hopeless situation. Let's say you have a terminal disease and you will slowly deteriorate mentally and physically. I would sure as hell want a bullet in my head than live like that. Or let us say,that you are so defeated by life that it might be viable than existing for no real reason.

I believe I made a rant on another site I belong to about this. I say,if someone is going to off themselves,at least have something in place to harvest organs or resources,that way nothing is wasted and they could help someone else. If man truly has free will,then it is his choice to end his own life.

Oldschool777 :

Why not, instead of taking yourself out, go out fighting your enemies? So lets say you have a terminal disease. Why not volunteer to use you as a human guinea pig? You could die from the disease, and you will likely suffer more. But, you've died fighting one of the many problems in the world. It seems a much more honorable death to me.

So, instead of saying we may kill ourselves in a given circumstance, why not simply fight the circumstance that makes us desire death?

That might be nice,except you are still terminal and declining by the day. And  who is to say it would help people or it would not contaminate the results? A lot of treatments have no long term results would be hard to do with those that are terminal.

There's no definite answer, but assuming we're talking about Christians who commit suicide, I'd say probably yes, he'd forgive them.

My reasons are:
- Once you accept Jesus' sacrifice, you're forgiven and have salvation. While it's obviously good to ask for forgiveness when you sin, it's not like you have to constantly worry about having to be forgiven again and again for every single sin for fear of dying before having asking forgiveness for something. You've already been forgiven, so whether you lied before you died without repenting or, worse, committed suicide, you've already been atoned for. It's not like the old covenant any more where you need to sacrifice something for every sin; Jesus was the perfect sacrifice and is all that's necessary. ...of course, some denominations disagree with this.
- Suicide is often a result of mental illness, and I like to think that God would be understanding about that.

Final Weapon : We really don't know, but I think it could possibly depend. If you were being tortured and bullied and people are making your life terrible, I think you deserve to go to heaven. But if you want people to feel bad for you and you want to be famous for your suicide, you deserve to burn. Of course, this is how I view it, and we don't know how God views it.

EDIT: If you do suicide and have not followed God and accepted Jesus into your heart, you will burn in the lake of fire.

OmegaVenomous : I don't think that's how salvation works. We're not saved because we've followed Jesus and accepted him into our hearts, we're saved because we've been forgiven. The question is if suicide is forgivable.

In my point of view, i don't think the god will forgive em, cause god place you on earth in the first place to pay your 'debt' from the life before now.
By debt i mean, like flaws, problems, etc etc i hope you know what i mean.
Thats just what i believe, agree or not i dont really care.

I would think so. Cripes,all a murderer has to do is accept last rites,confess to his sins and he is given a morally clean slate. But then again,I have not died and seen him to ask him what his stance is on that.

Oldschool777 : I'm pretty sure that's not how it works either. If the murderer must accept last rites and confess to his sins, then the person has to work for their salvation. This would contradict the Christian principle that salvation is not earned, but that it is a gift.

He is about to die,Txgangsta. It is a little hard to work for your salvation when you are dead.