Subject: will suiside send you to hell |
Bible Note: jlhetrik, I hope EdB will forgive me if I'm misrepresenting his side of the arguement, but let me chime in and try to clarify what I think is being said. Scripture nowhere clearly states that suicides go to hell. What it does teach is that a saved individual will partake of an ongoing sanctification that leads them to greater and greater Christ likeness, despite the fact that we will never be sinless in this life. Now suicide is not simply struggling with a particular sin, but instead it is a radical and finally unresolvable departure from that pattern. Thus, it may cause us to question salvation in the same way we would question the salvation of a professing Christian that is completely overcome in sin and dies with no fruits or evidence of repentence. So the arguement is not one of perfectionism, it is simply having a hard time placing suicide with scriptures affirmation of the ongoing sanctification of believers. I too, for this very reason, struggle to believe a suicide is a saved individual even though I can not rule out the possibility for certain. It simply seems that one of the marks of saving faith is a perseverance which is quite contrary to suicide. May God grant that I am wrong! In Christ, Beja |