Suicide to avoid the end-times?

Shouldn't Christ's commandment that we love our neighbor be incentive for us to be present for our neighbor during a time of absolute disaster?

Suicide at that point would be the easy way out. I'm not trying to make light of suicide in saying this, but treating it like a viable option when the going gets tough for Christians to do what Christians are supposed to do seems to indicate a rather cheap sort of faith.

-CryptoLutheran

Purge187 said:

I honestly dread the idea of being here on Earth when the stuff really hits the fan, and I don't think I have nearly enough faith to endure any sort of lengthy persecution.

If the Pre-Seven Year Rapture folks are wrong (let's keep the whole Rapture debate for its appropriate forum), would suicide be a viable option instead of following the Antichrist?

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Those who are secure in Christ are not afraid. If you fear the end times, imagine what you may fear for eternity taking the life God gave you.

I cannot believe suicide is ever a proper solution to life's problems. At best, it shows a marked absence of faith in God to keep us in His Will. A disbelief God will in fact carry us through the trials - what ever they may be.

I do NOT believe suicide will prevent us from eternal fellowship with God. He forgave me for ALL my sins.

However, with my luck I'd kill myself, arrive in Heaven and meet God. Then He'd tell me, "By the way, Arch; you weren't in the end times. It was just a bad cycle of human history. The 'end' isn't for another couple thousand years."

How dopey would I feel then?

Even if...

Either Almighty God will support us and strengthen us, or He won't. All my experience with God says He will.

Glad you liked the gag. God seems to like a good gag as well. For instance, the duck-billed platypus, Al Franken (okay, that may violate good taste) and the Yugo.

Thankfully for us, our Saviour experienced every pain and fear imaginable. His crucifixion put upon him every rape, murder, abuse, persecution humanity has ever or will ever commit.
so Jesus knows our pain and He knows our fears and He knows that our flesh is weak.

Therefore, knowing these things about us, and the trials we are put through, He has great empathy for our pain and our plight. I could not see Him condemn a believer for giving up.

If it were His will, the rope would break, the ambulance would arrive, a relative would intervene, or a gag reflex would vomit up the sleeping pills.

If He needed us for something, He ensure we were around to fulfil His purpose.

But like brother ViaCrucis said, we should try to be strong and imo, remember Abraham who's faith was credited to him as righteousness. That very faith delivered him through his enemies camps. And Job, whom satan was allowed to tear down to the ground.....he all but begged God to strike him down.....but God built him back greater than he ever was.

Suicide is a mortal sin so this shouldn't be an option. The greatest death we could ask for is martyrdom so we should embrace this. With either choice we are going to die so we might as well choose the most glorious death which is the greatest display of faith possible.

You are not going to go to hell if you commit suicide. The only unforgivable sin is blasphemy of the holy spirit.

However, killing yourself in order to avoid the tribulation is not the logic of a sane true saved child of God.

He already has told us that He will not put us in a circumstance that is beyond our ability to handle with out a way out. He has also told us that we are not ever going to be placed in a situation that has not been experienced by others before us. He also said that when we need strength He will give it to us... Who are we to say that we have done anything in life, that took strength, without His help anyway?

So, to say "It's gunna get bad, so I'm outta here" and pull the plug on your life, that is telling God that you don't have faith, you don't trust Him and, He doesn't care about you. Talk about getting in the front door by the skin of your teeth. What if that is your moment of purpose? To lead others to Christ, utilizing strength He gives you to shine for God and have others see the Savior through you... but wait.... you offed yourself and now nobody is there to show them.

We are the body of Christ and "IF" we are here for the tribulation..... that will be our busiest time when we are needed by Christ and unbelievers.

Purge187 said:

I honestly dread the idea of being here on Earth when the stuff really hits the fan, and I don't think I have nearly enough faith to endure any sort of lengthy persecution.

If the Pre-Seven Year Rapture folks are wrong (let's keep the whole Rapture debate for its appropriate forum), would suicide be a viable option instead of following the Antichrist?

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I think you need to trust God to take care of you instead of taking matters into your own hands with something like suicide. If believers are here during the tribulation then it will be a time when a christian witness will be all the more powerful

Purge187 said:

I honestly dread the idea of being here on Earth when the stuff really hits the fan, and I don't think I have nearly enough faith to endure any sort of lengthy persecution.

If the Pre-Seven Year Rapture folks are wrong (let's keep the whole Rapture debate for its appropriate forum), would suicide be a viable option instead of following the Antichrist?

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Absolutely not, that would be totally against God. Throw your End Time novels in the trash where they belong. Believe God’s Word not man’s tradition.

Those who commit suicide go to hell...

Committing Suicide Send You Hell (Suicide Attempt Survivor's Testimony) - YouTube

I Went To Hell For Suicide - YouTube

Those who commit suicide go to hell...

Committing Suicide Send You Hell (Suicide Attempt Survivor's Testimony) - YouTube

I Went To Hell For Suicide - YouTube