Subject: Suicide.....Hell or no. |
Bible Note: Ed, one cannot help but wonder just how much "Pisteuo" David had as he lay with another man's wife and subsequently engineered to have her husband slain. How much "Pisteuo" was with Peter as thrice he denied Jesus? Does Scripture give evidence that David and Peter were unfaithful because they were unsaved -- or does it teach something else? Ed, I cannot accept as scriptural the idea that a believer's lapse into a state of hopelessness (depression?) constitutes a denial of the power of Christ and blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The regenerate believer is human and therefore subject to human weakness and human sickness. He is responsible for his sin. But he is not immune to human weaknesses including sin. And he is by no means always responsible for things like feelings of hopelessness (clinical depression) that can and sometimes do result in harm to oneself, even suicide. Generalizations are often wrong, including this one, but I think that one cannot make a blanket statement of fact that suicide is proof positive that the person who commits the act is unsaved. --Hank |