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Can God really turn his back on those who...?

kill themselves? Does suicide automatically condemn a person to hell?....My cousin killed herself...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    scare tactics made up by the Catholics

  • 1 decade ago

    God doesn't turn his back on anyone because he's a merciful God and a just God, so the choice of a person killing his or herself, determines the fate of his or her well-being when God returns.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    My honest opinion is no. Samson in The Bible committed suicide and wasn't sent to hell by God for doing so.

  • 1 decade ago

    The truth is the only way into heaven is by believing in Jesus Christ and that His death pays off all your sins. Once you are given the gift of eternal life it can't be taken away by anything. Please pray a sincere prayer with all your heart admitting to Jesus you are a sinner. Have full faith that His blood pays off all your sins and accept His gift of everlasting life. I pray that God blesses you with eternal life. Amen.

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  • 1 decade ago

    God never turns His back....who are we to condemn and judge someone, to say who's going to hell and who is going to heaven. God is a God of Love...

    "Augustine argued in the fifth century that suicide was a violation of the sixth commandment,

    “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13).

    Later, Thomas Aquinas, being Catholic and believing that confession of sin must be made prior to departure from the world to the next, taught that suicide was the most fatal of all sins because the victim could not repent of it. The problem with his view is that it represents a gross misunderstanding of eternal security, which Scripture clearly teaches. We are saved by the grace of God, not by works (Ephesians 2:8-9) and nothing can separate a Christian from the love of God (Romans 8:37-39).

    Other verses that clearly teach assurance of salvation for the believer are:

    “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

    —John 5:24

    “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.”

    —John 10:27-29

    “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”

    —1 John 5:11-13

    However, suicide is not what God wants for anyone. We have a God who loves us and cares for us and promises to meet all of our needs if we place our trust in Him (Proverbs 3:5-6).

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe that in God compassion, that He is the only One who knows the circumstances wherefore they took their own lives, though if someone has been hounded to death, by someone else, the one who did the hounding has the greater sin.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I doubt it ....and he loves babies for the umpth time ....I have never felt comfortable knowing that someday I will die up until this year ..and that's because I was fierce in studying the truth

  • 1 decade ago

    There is no hell. Life is hard, but worth it, and I hope to live till I die. This is all we've got.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i don't know. , my uncle committed suicide. i hope God had mercy.

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