If a Christian commits suicide, are they saved?
Suicide is not the unforgivable sin, nor is suicide the sin that leads to death. The sin leading to death (the unforgivable sin) is the rejection of the gospel and the rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior (1 John 5:16). That is why John says we should not pray for it because our prayer cannot turn someone to God (1 John 5:17). Only the Holy Spirit can do that. Further, the entire letter of 1 John is dedicated to contrasting those who are saved and those who are not.
To say that God sends a believer to hell because they made the choice to kill themselves totally misses the heart of God. Nowhere in Scripture does it say suicide is an unforgivable sin or that suicide is different from any other sin. Our forgiveness is not rooted in how little or small our sins are; our forgiveness is based on the shed blood of Jesus. There is no such thing as big sins and small sins, just sins. And Jesus took them all away.
So if you’ve lost someone to suicide, please see and know the heart of your Father. He is good, all the time. We need to start seeing God as good and stop seeing Him through the lens of our shame and the religious teaching we grew up with.
Believers are promised eternal life (John 3:16). Nothing can separate us from God’s unfailing love (Rom 8:38-39). That verse says no “created thing” can separate us from God’s love. You and I are created things. We cannot separate ourselves from God’s love:
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38‑39)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:28)
I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5)
To say that God sends a believer to hell because they made the choice to kill themselves totally misses the heart of God. Nowhere in Scripture does it say suicide is an unforgivable sin or that suicide is different from any other sin. Our forgiveness is not rooted in how little or small our sins are; our forgiveness is based on the shed blood of Jesus. There is no such thing as big sins and small sins, just sins. And Jesus took them all away.
So if you’ve lost someone to suicide, please see and know the heart of your Father. He is good, all the time. We need to start seeing God as good and stop seeing Him through the lens of our shame and the religious teaching we grew up with.
Believers are promised eternal life (John 3:16). Nothing can separate us from God’s unfailing love (Rom 8:38-39). That verse says no “created thing” can separate us from God’s love. You and I are created things. We cannot separate ourselves from God’s love:
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38‑39)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:28)
I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5)
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