Suicide, Salvation, and Eternal Security
, I receive many emails, phone calls, and questions about grief. One of the most difficult questions I hear is from family members who have lost a loved one to suicide.The question often sounds something like this.
“We are confident that our mother (or father, brother, sister, daughter, son) was a Christian by faith in Christ. Yet we have heard some say that if a believer commits suicide they lose their salvation. What does the Bible say?”
Shared Sorrow Is Endurable Sorrow
Any response to this question must first, of course, address the grief and agony of the surviving family members. The loss of a loved one is always a legitimate cause for great grief. Loss by suicide heaps even more grief and pain upon a family.
Christians, in particular, seem to struggle with “permission to grieve.” That was one reason I wrote God’s Healing for Life’s Losses : to help Christians struggling with any life loss to understand that the Bible encourages grief and provides a way toward growth and healing hope.
Any response must also include the encouragement for the family to cling to Christ and to the Body of Christ. No one should suffer grief alone. As I say in the book, “shared sorrow is endurable sorrow.”
Salvation and Eternal Security
Regarding the specific question concerning a loved one’s eternal security, my response, in summary, usually sounds something like the following.
There is nothing in the Bible to indicate that a believer in Christ can ever lose their salvation, their eternal security. The Apostle Paul is clear that there is now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Paul continues in that chapter to state that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ, including death—by any means (Romans 8:28-39).
Jesus Himself guarantees us: “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one” (John 10:28-30). Jesus died to save us from our sins—every sin, including suicide.
Doubt and Faith
Further, even doubt and loss of hope is not an evidence of loss of faith. In Mark 9:24, we read of the father of a sick child who said to Jesus, “I believe, help me overcome my unbelief.” The rest of the passage indicates that this father had faith, though like all of us, he struggled to overcome his doubts.
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It is the young middle class youth who have never experienced their repression that are mostly enlisted. if you have guns and rockets and ur riding around in a car, ur not an innocent civilian. more people die from the suicide attacks and oppressive
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I don’t have any horrible confessions, but I do have a few.
I slept with Sean in high school and then denied it because I told him I would if he told anyone. I wasn’t embarrassed of him, just of myself for relenting.
I cheated on my husband with a guy named Justin for about 3 months, 17 years ago and never told my husband.
I seriously considered ending my life, just once, but I wasn’t going to do it myself – I asked God to do it during childbirth. 6 months into the pregnancy I was praying He wouldn’t, hoping He knew I was serious about sticking around for my children because there for awhile I thought He and I had an agreement.
That’s it. Nothing too traumatic. Everything else is out in the open. Unless I have repressed memories, and if I do, I hope they stay repressed.
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I met Justin because I avoided dancing with a man I knew my husband couldn’t stand. When that man came to my table, I turned around, grabbed the first hand I saw, and said, “Do you wanna dance?” Justin said, “Sure!” and boy could he dance! I thought about Justin all that week, and when I heard that he wanted to see me again, I couldn’t resist. Justin brought feelings of excitement and acceptance that I hadn’t felt in almost four years. With Justin, I came to life and felt happiness. With my husband, I felt deadened and confused and hurt by his anger and violence. The difference between them was like day and night.
At first, I wrestled with telling my husband about Justin out of fear of being caught. When my husband returned from deployment, he did accuse me of cheating on him. However, his accusations were like all the ones he’d made before in that he just suspected I was cheating. He’d call me a whore (like always) and point the finger at many different guys (most of whom I’d never met). If he had known about Justin, he would have said his name. As it was, my husband’s behavior was the usual random abuse. His abusive anger was so terrible that I vowed I would never tell him the truth for fear of his punishment.
English Lit AND Lang?? OH God dats jus pure suicide :L and art I'd jus get straight U never been good. :P
Id do anything but curse God, commit suicide, commit a murder and/or hit a woman
Oh god MATHS. thats suicide love ehehe, and i'm taking- Photography, English Lit, Textiles and History :) xxx
Thank you based iPhone God. If you ain't team iPhone. Might want to reconsider living and probably consider suicide
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