Do Christians still get to Heaven if ...

[Muffvan]

The question of whether Christians who die by suicide go to Heaven is a complex and sensitive theological issue, and different Christian denominations and theologians may have varying perspectives. Here are some general points that are often discussed:

1. **Understanding of Sin and Forgiveness**: Many Christians believe that Heaven is accessible to those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and have repented of their sins. The Bible emphasizes God's forgiveness and mercy, suggesting that no sin is beyond His grace, including suicide.

2. **Mental Health Considerations**: It's important to recognize that suicide is often associated with mental health issues. Many Christian communities emphasize compassion and understanding for those who struggle with mental illness, viewing their actions through the lens of their suffering rather than solely as a moral failing.

3. **Biblical References**: The Bible does not explicitly address suicide, but there are passages that speak to God's love and forgiveness. For example, 1 John 1:9 states, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

4. **Theological Perspectives**: Some theologians argue that God's judgment is based on the individual's relationship with Him at the time of death, rather than specific actions. Others emphasize the importance of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

5. **Pastoral Care**: Many Christian communities focus on providing pastoral care and support to those affected by suicide, emphasizing prayer, compassion, and understanding.

Ultimately, the question is deeply personal and theological, and individuals may find different answers based on their beliefs and interpretations of scripture. It's often recommended to seek guidance from trusted spiritual leaders or theologians within one's own faith tradition.

 

[The Encourager]

I prayed in Jesus' name that God will answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. Thank You Jesus!!!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Let Us Pray: God Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus' name to please bless me with everything I stand in need of, and everything You want me to have. Bless me to know You in truth and fall in love with You with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. Bless me to prosper, have excellent health, and have an ever growing closer stronger more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always honor, respect, and obey You. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps, actions, and words.

God heal me, body, soul, and spirit. Cleansed me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You or breaks Your heart. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, pray Your best for me, and all those I love and care about. God please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith. Prayer written by Encourager ###, M.A., Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach.

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[Articles]

Heavenly Father,

We come before You with heavy hearts, seeking Your wisdom and comfort. Our dear friend ### is troubled with a profound question about the fate of Christians who die by suicide. Lord, we know that Your love and grace are boundless, and Your understanding surpasses all human comprehension.

We ask for Your guidance and peace to envelop ### and all who are struggling with similar thoughts. Remind us of Your promise in Romans 8:38-39, that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Help us to trust in Your mercy and to find solace in Your Word.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

 

[AnonymousTL]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[CassieSeaCat]

Father, Son and Holy Ghost it seems likely that You understand the despair, hopelessness and mental health problems some people have? If others pray hard for a soul surely You would not send such a soul to Hell? My ### had a 17 year old sister who took her life and she could not cope with the tragedy. Eventually, she swears that her sister appeared at her bedside telling her to let her rest. I believe the story and the implication is that she was not going to Hell. Please soothe this Servant, take whoever he is concerned about and my ### and her sister to Heaven. Thank-you, in the great Name of Yahushua we pray. Praise the Lord!

 

[Direwin]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[ThankfulBC]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[The Encourager]

If they are a real Christian yes they do.

 

[Brother James]

Do Christians still get to Heaven if they die by suicide?

Praying for you in Jesus. How long does it take to die once we try or have put things in motion? Is the Word of God True in that Jesus loved us first? I believe it is Truth! And I believe a true believer can commit suicide and still go to Heaven as well as do nothing to lose our Salvation! I believe questioning our own Salvation is or can be healthy but that is just for us between us and Jesus who is the Name of names given for us to call on, proclaim things on and I truly hope this is helpful in Jesus.

Do you Believe Jesus died for our sins, is Risen from the dead, is Preparing a place for us and is about to call us to join Him?

Are you watching for Jesus in the Clouds of Glory? Jesus is about to call us to join Him!

We can do everything Jesus did and more! We can speak; sickness leave in Jesus! Be healed by Jesus stripes! I am healed by Jesus stripes! Amen! Thank You Lord Jesus!

You can copy and paste this to pray every day and share...

There is nothing that happens for us that is bad. All things work for our good in Jesus! Look at everything as good!

Sing through out your days Thank You Jesus, Praise You Jesus, Glory to You Lord Jesus or anything that is on your heart to sing to Jesus! It doesn't matter how we sound, Angels will join in with us and Jesus will join in with us as well as fight for us, knock down walls for us, open locks for us, save people for us, evil will flee from us, He heals us and He will over flow His Holy Peace in us.

Praying for others on here and reading your Bible will help you tremendously.

I wanted to commit suicide once, I even came up with a plan. Right before I headed out the door I posted a prayer on here and hoping there might be help from God one last time I opened the Bible and only read take no thought for your life. I read that before at least 100 times but never really could understand how. This time I took it to heart, all right God I will end my life by not thinking about it. I take no thought, I take no thought, I take no thought over and over and over again I take no thought was my only thought that day. All of a sudden I noticed something, Jesus showed up, all my pains were gone, no neck ache, no back pain, no leg pain from many many accidents I had over the years and no pain in my heart as my wife had left me. I started singing praises and thanks to Jesus and my life has never been the same. It is our obedience to God from His Holy Instructions that makes a difference to His Power of His Promises in our lives.

Be a doer of Jesus friend, it really makes a difference! Thank You Lord Jesus!

Search the Bible for Jesus' Promises friend, do them and claim them in Jesus! Amen! Thank You Lord Jesus!

Powerful healing promise hidden in Proverbs 3:7-8, I am not wise in my own eyes, I fear You Lord, I depart from evil, especially my own evil thoughts and my flesh is healed and my body is refreshed in Jesus.

Praying for others especially in your situation will help you tremendously in yours friend.

Take no thought for your life dear friend and Jesus will take thought for you. Sing praises and thanks to Jesus and He will overflow His Holy Spirit in you and so much more. He will fight for you and give you the desires of your heart.

Pray this prayer look up the verses and pray it again with your friends and family and let's mount up with wings as eagles and soar. Soar with me.

Let Us Pray: God I ask in Jesus' name, bless me to grow closer to You. I long for a more intimate relationship with You. God I take You at Your Word, if I will draw closer to You, You will draw closer to me (James 4:8). Show me how to draw closer to You. Bless me daily to cast off and forsake my thoughts and ways for my life, and exchange them for Your thoughts and ways for my life. Let me think Your thoughts and dream Your dreams for my life. God bless me to live and walk in Your love, mercy and forgiveness (Isaiah 55:7). I confess, I will take no thought for my life. I will trust You Father God to take thought for me and take care of me (Mathew 6:25-34). I will not be wise in my own eyes, I will fear You Lord and depart from evil and my flesh will be healed and my body will be refreshed (Proverbs 3:7-8) daily. Thank You Jesus for Your Promises! Lord make me the Child of God You need me to be in Christ for all those around me and for the world to see (Psalms 128:3). Not by my might, nor by my power, but by Your Spirt Christ Jesus (Zechariah 4:6) this shall happen. And it will happen, it is happening now in Your timing, Power, Strength, Might, and Spirit, Christ Jesus. God all that I have asked of you in this prayer please do the same for all those I love, care about, and every faithful prayer warrior on this site. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Lord Jesus, my Savior and Lord for answering this prayer with a Yes and Amen.

Bless us to sing praises and thanks to You Lord Jesus so You can fill us with the wine of the Spirit in Jesus Name, Amen.

 

[Muffvan]

Praying for you in Jesus. How long does it take to die once we try or have put things in motion? Is the Word of God True in that Jesus loved us first? I believe it is Truth! And I believe a true believer can commit suicide and still go to Heaven as well as do nothing to lose our Salvation! I believe questioning our own Salvation is or can be healthy but that is just for us between us and Jesus who is the Name of names given for us to call on, proclaim things on and I truly hope this is helpful in Jesus.

Do you Believe Jesus died for our sins, is Risen from the dead, is Preparing a place for us and is about to call us to join Him?

Are you watching for Jesus in the Clouds of Glory? Jesus is about to call us to join Him!

We can do everything Jesus did and more! We can speak; sickness leave in Jesus! Be healed by Jesus stripes! I am healed by Jesus stripes! Amen! Thank You Lord Jesus!

You can copy and paste this to pray every day and share...

There is nothing that happens for us that is bad. All things work for our good in Jesus! Look at everything as good!

Sing through out your days Thank You Jesus, Praise You Jesus, Glory to You Lord Jesus or anything that is on your heart to sing to Jesus! It doesn't matter how we sound, Angels will join in with us and Jesus will join in with us as well as fight for us, knock down walls for us, open locks for us, save people for us, evil will flee from us, He heals us and He will over flow His Holy Peace in us.

Praying for others on here and reading your Bible will help you tremendously.

I wanted to commit suicide once, I even came up with a plan. Right before I headed out the door I posted a prayer on here and hoping there might be help from God one last time I opened the Bible and only read take no thought for your life. I read that before at least 100 times but never really could understand how. This time I took it to heart, all right God I will end my life by not thinking about it. I take no thought, I take no thought, I take no thought over and over and over again I take no thought was my only thought that day. All of a sudden I noticed something, Jesus showed up, all my pains were gone, no neck ache, no back pain, no leg pain from many many accidents I had over the years and no pain in my heart as my wife had left me. I started singing praises and thanks to Jesus and my life has never been the same. It is our obedience to God from His Holy Instructions that makes a difference to His Power of His Promises in our lives.

Be a doer of Jesus friend, it really makes a difference! Thank You Lord Jesus!

Search the Bible for Jesus' Promises friend, do them and claim them in Jesus! Amen! Thank You Lord Jesus!

Powerful healing promise hidden in Proverbs 3:7-8, I am not wise in my own eyes, I fear You Lord, I depart from evil, especially my own evil thoughts and my flesh is healed and my body is refreshed in Jesus.

Praying for others especially in your situation will help you tremendously in yours friend.

Take no thought for your life dear friend and Jesus will take thought for you. Sing praises and thanks to Jesus and He will overflow His Holy Spirit in you and so much more. He will fight for you and give you the desires of your heart.

Pray this prayer look up the verses and pray it again with your friends and family and let's mount up with wings as eagles and soar. Soar with me.

Let Us Pray: God I ask in Jesus' name, bless me to grow closer to You. I long for a more intimate relationship with You. God I take You at Your Word, if I will draw closer to You, You will draw closer to me (James 4:8). Show me how to draw closer to You. Bless me daily to cast off and forsake my thoughts and ways for my life, and exchange them for Your thoughts and ways for my life. Let me think Your thoughts and dream Your dreams for my life. God bless me to live and walk in Your love, mercy and forgiveness (Isaiah 55:7). I confess, I will take no thought for my life. I will trust You Father God to take thought for me and take care of me (Mathew 6:25-34). I will not be wise in my own eyes, I will fear You Lord and depart from evil and my flesh will be healed and my body will be refreshed (Proverbs 3:7-8) daily. Thank You Jesus for Your Promises! Lord make me the Child of God You need me to be in Christ for all those around me and for the world to see (Psalms 128:3). Not by my might, nor by my power, but by Your Spirt Christ Jesus (Zechariah 4:6) this shall happen. And it will happen, it is happening now in Your timing, Power, Strength, Might, and Spirit, Christ Jesus. God all that I have asked of you in this prayer please do the same for all those I love, care about, and every faithful prayer warrior on this site. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Lord Jesus, my Savior and Lord for answering this prayer with a Yes and Amen.

Bless us to sing praises and thanks to You Lord Jesus so You can fill us with the wine of the Spirit in Jesus Name, Amen.

Thank you, Brother ###. I am so thankful for the words in this post. I have tears running down my face. This is Christian guidance I have needed to hear. All too often and for too many years I have and do take thought for my life, and just have focused on every problem and pray over them as if I am praying to put out fires constantly. I have been struggling in every area of my life since my divorce fifteen years ago and for all of these years I have spent them focused on just fighting to survive, to provide for my children and for myself. I have prayed so many prayers for help for years and things have at many times and even lately gotten worse and harder and in a few cases - life threatening for me and my children - as the enemy has been hard at work trying to kill me though anemia and also literally tried to drive all three of my children into depression and kill them. My three children are adults now - my daughter is married with two young children - she and her husband are Christian, baptized and have enrolled their children in private Christian school. But the last four years my daughter has struggled with depressive thoughts, anger and has seen demons. She is trying so hard to get the enemy out of her head and house. The enemy has also been trying to divide her and her husband. I get texts and phone calls from my daughter and son-in-law when things get bad. In 2017 my youngest son at the age of 19 tried to take his own life on three separate occasions. The Lord protected him each time - praise God! He was put on three different medications and by 2021 he had successfully weaned himself off of them and is doing much better he is 26 now, but he still has moments of social anxiety and he fears he will never be good enough or smart enough to have a good paying stable career. He still lives with me, is studying to be a pharmacy assistant, and in spite of my prayers and discussions about God, he is not a Christian. He resists any talk about Jesus and God. He uses marijuana to cope with anxiety and life. I do not approve of this at all never have - but he will not quit in spite of my prayers for his salvation and freedom from this addiction. He does receive a small income for doing work for my ex-husband which helps me not have to 100% provide for him. My other son - middle child - struggled in 2017 until 2022 with thoughts of suicide, profound insomnia, severe panic and anxiety attacks. He had mentioned to me last year that since he was twelve he had these thoughts that he was not going to live passed the age of 26 - he was convinced he would die by that age. He is now 29, engaged and is doing better although he has panic attacks at times still that feel like heart attack. He did go to church with my daughter and her family three years ago and we think he prayed and excepted Jesus as his savior - he is open to talking about God and is convinced his struggles are demonic. His girlfriend of 10 years is now his fiance. She nearly died in 2017 from a pulmonary embolism - she was on life support, survived, and was discharged 9 days later - at the hospital she is known as the pulmonary miracle - praise God! She cannot have children, however she is doing better and has even written a novel that she self published and is working on her undergraduate degree - she is not a Christian yet, but is open to talking about God and church - her mother is into mystical arts. As for myself, I have been in three unsuccessful relationships since divorce. In 2019 my son and I became homeless after fire burned down our apartment building. We lived with my parents for one year while I saved some money to buy shares into cooperative housing. We were approved and moved into that cooperative housing complex in March of 2021. Then in June of 2022 a drunken driver in a Jeep veered off the road and smashed into the living room of our townhouse. We had to move out due to the fire department rendering the townhouse uninhabitable and the cooperative had no vacancies. Again, my son and I were homeless and we moved into my older sons condo for a month until I was able to secure an apartment that allowed large breed dogs (my younger son has a labrador retriever for emotional support but we cannot get emotional support dogs registered in our country). For the last three years my son, his dog and I have been living in a tiny one bedroom apartment. My son's bedroom is the living room, there is no dishwasher, no washer/dryer. It is a very old building where the water gets shut off often to repair leaking pipes, it is located in a not safe or desirable area in our city. It is all I can afford. For years I could only get work in warehouses. Three years ago, desperately needing a change and praying for a career job that was not in a warehouse, I applied and got hired into the cancer center at our hospital as a casual with full-time hours doing Covid screening at the front door. I then got promoted to clerk III and was given a fulltime position as clerk in our counselling, psychiatry, nutritional, speech language, and spiritual health department. I was responsible for 12 providers. Management said this would be my desk and my position moving forward. Management even advocated for me to enroll in night school to become a clerk IV and the cancer center would pay for the program. I started the night school program September 2023 and I will be finished and graduate as a clerk IV October 2024. So, I have been working Monday to Friday fulltime and then go home and do schooling in the evening Monday to Friday. I began to burn out from this daily schedule and in April I asked management If I could be temporarily reassigned to the much less stressful position of check-in clerk on level 1 just until my program completed and then would happily return to the counselling department. They did not like that request apparently and six weeks ago my supervisors pulled me from the counselling department and put a newly hired clerk IV into that position and now I am being shuffled from one department to the next every day doing different tasks that I am barely trained for. It is more stressful on top of the stress of schooling than when I was clerk in the counselling department. I am grateful to the cancer center for providing for the cost of the schooling and with this clerk IV career opportunity, but I am burned out. I regret making that request because I really do love working in the counselling department. It is a very busy and stressful desk. It is just that with the addition of schooling every night I never get a break from stress. I thought that if I worked at the less stressful check-in desk I could manage working fulltime and school. Instead work is now absolute chaos and more stressful than ever. I pray to God every day asking Him why this is the life I have to walk, what is the purpose of all the struggles me, my children and their loved ones have had to go through. My husband divorced me and even though I did not fight for my marriage agreeing to the divorce, am I being punished? Are my children being punished through the actions of their parents? Why is my ex-husband allowed to flourish and live in a million dollar home, travel, spend lavishly on himself, see me struggling and do nothing. He is living in absolute sin by marrying a man after divorcing me! My kids have suffered, I have suffered. I pray to God asking why and when do I get rest and peace - when will my life be easier - will I ever realize my dream of a stable career and buying my own home. God knows I have struggled to provide for my children and myself working two jobs at times, overtime hours and double time shifts. God knows in spite of my efforts over fifteen years, I had to rely on debt to bridge the financial gaps because there was not enough money. God knows in March of last year I could no longer cope financially and ended up making the hardest decision of my life declaring bankruptcy and having my car repossessed. God knows I have to walk to work or take a taxi. God knows I was discharged from bankruptcy December 2023, yet am still fighting to get all of the debts be written off with the bankruptcy on my credit report. God knows that in February a surprise debt surfaced that was apparently incurred back in 2021. My trustee is fighting with that government department to acknowledge that that debt was incurred prior to my bankruptcy and therefore should be included in the bankruptcy and written off. I am praying for this bankruptcy to be officially over. I am praying to God to turn around my work situation to get my job back in the counselling department. I am praying for somewhere better and safer to live. I am praying for all of my children and their loved ones and myself to be mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, vocationally and financially healed, protected and thriving. The last fifteen years have been so scary, hard, difficult and has really tried my faith. I am burned out and just done. All I have is that God gets me up each day to go through another day. I need my breakthrough. I will follow your words in your post and pray the prayer. I need God to turn things around soon. Thank you for your faithfulness to Christ and for helping Christians like me who are really struggling. I pray God blesses you abundantly, in Jesus name.