People make me sick sometimes. When someone loses a loved one no matter how they lose a loved one it is incredibly difficult.
To tell them that their loved one is going to hell because they committed suicide is inhumane, unkind, unloving and untrue.
If you are saved you cannot lose your salvation. God doesn’t take His gifts back once He gives them. Once you accept His gift of salvation He doesn’t take it back. Peter literally said he didn’t know Jesus 3 times and he got into the kingdom.
What happened to compassion?
As Christians we are supposed to be God’s representatives on earth. If we are being cold and heartless we represent Him not at all. Every opportunity Jesus had to condemn when the Pharisees and the world would condemn he did not (John 8:1-11 is a perfect example of this).
People, many Christians in particular, are so eager to tell people they are going to hell in a way very similar to the Pharisees of Jesus' day. What is that about? We need to check ourselves because the person if JESUS were alive today the person he would rebuke is not the grieving family but the Christian for being so insensitive especially when they themselves are not living right.
I have dealt with the struggle of suicide and it’s something that I will fight against for the rest of my life just like any alcoholic or drug addict. Once it enters your consciousness it will constantly try to convince you you're not good enough and the world would be better off without you. Those who commit this act seem fine or normal to everyone around them. For me I have learned and decided that my life is worth living for me and the people that love me and that God will give me the strength I need to face what I must face.
To those who has lost a loved one to this ugly thing called suicide I am so sorry and I grieve with you but find comfort in the fact that they no longer suffer, that they loved you and don’t want you to wonder why. Never wonder why but remember who they were and what you loved about them because that is what they would have wanted.
And if you are suffering talk to someone because you are smart, you are important, you are loved and NOTHING is more valuable than you just as you are.
We are in this together. Be blessed.
Nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus
If you are saved you cannot lose your salvation. God doesn’t take His gifts back once He gives them. Once you accept His gift of salvation He doesn’t take it back. Peter literally said he didn’t know Jesus 3 times and he got into the kingdom.
What happened to compassion?
Jesus was always sensitive to the grief and suffering of others especially when a family member died. He himself cried when his dear friend Lazarus died (John 11).
I don’t know where this idea that you automatically go to Hell if you commit suicide came from but this is another one of those Sunday stories that were told to you so you wouldn’t do it.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say this.
What it does say is that there is nothing (if we accept Christ) that can separate us from the the love of Jesus. Not. Even. Death. (Romans 8:31-39)
I don’t know where this idea that you automatically go to Hell if you commit suicide came from but this is another one of those Sunday stories that were told to you so you wouldn’t do it.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say this.
What it does say is that there is nothing (if we accept Christ) that can separate us from the the love of Jesus. Not. Even. Death. (Romans 8:31-39)
As Christians we are supposed to be God’s representatives on earth. If we are being cold and heartless we represent Him not at all. Every opportunity Jesus had to condemn when the Pharisees and the world would condemn he did not (John 8:1-11 is a perfect example of this).
People, many Christians in particular, are so eager to tell people they are going to hell in a way very similar to the Pharisees of Jesus' day. What is that about? We need to check ourselves because the person if JESUS were alive today the person he would rebuke is not the grieving family but the Christian for being so insensitive especially when they themselves are not living right.
I have dealt with the struggle of suicide and it’s something that I will fight against for the rest of my life just like any alcoholic or drug addict. Once it enters your consciousness it will constantly try to convince you you're not good enough and the world would be better off without you. Those who commit this act seem fine or normal to everyone around them. For me I have learned and decided that my life is worth living for me and the people that love me and that God will give me the strength I need to face what I must face.
To those who has lost a loved one to this ugly thing called suicide I am so sorry and I grieve with you but find comfort in the fact that they no longer suffer, that they loved you and don’t want you to wonder why. Never wonder why but remember who they were and what you loved about them because that is what they would have wanted.
And if you are suffering talk to someone because you are smart, you are important, you are loved and NOTHING is more valuable than you just as you are.
We are in this together. Be blessed.
The Unlikely Missionary
DHW
Note - Suicide also is not selfish. Many people think it is and will tell you so but that is their own selfishness speaking. Many times those who are struggling think they would be a burden and think that by leaving they will no longer be that burden; they believe themselves to be acting selflessly because they think everyone would be better off if they were gone.
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