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Can Someone Who Commits Suicide Go to Heaven?

     Hi.  Today's mailbag question has to do
with suicide.  The question is simply this: if you kill yourself and are
a Christian will you got to hell?  Well before getting into that I would
like to ask a question of you.  If you are Christian why would you kill
yourself?  It's true that there are some extraordinary circumstances like
chemical imbalances or deep depression, but lets set those aside for a moment
and think for someone who does not experience extraordinary circumstances.  Why
would you kill yourself as a Christian?  A Christian would not kill themselves
because we seek and look to God in every situation life or death.  As a
Christian we not only try to avoid sin, but we allow or lives to be placed in
the hands of God.  As Christians we cannot and should not commit suicide
- it's not within our realm of actions.  Certainly there are those people
who make mistakes, those people do things we shouldn't, and there are those
people with chemical imbalances and who suffer deep depression who do commit
suicide so let's talk about them for a moment.  

     The Bible, I believe, makes it very clear that
suicide is not the unforgivable sin.  In Matthew 12:31 Jesus lays out the
unforgivable sin and says very clearly, every sin and blaspheme will be forgiven
man - that's every sin - every blaspheme - not some, not few, but every single
one of them except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.  Suicide is a
sin absolutely.  But is it the unforgivable sin?  No, its not.  Christians,
if they kill themselves and believe in Jesus Christ's redeeming power and has
had accepted that forgiveness, will be saved.  But I dont know about you
-  I would not want to be the person standing in front of God trying to
explain why I felt it necessary to take control life in that way.  Can
Christians go to Heaven if they commit suicide?  Yes.  Should Christians
commit suicide?  Absolutely, emphatically, no no no.  

     And that's been in mailbag question for today,
I hope you enjoyed it.  I am Jeff Piepho