Is God angry with those who self harm?

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People self harm because they have lost all hope and the will to live. This is the result of modernist theology that denies the existence of a Personal God and that the universe and everything in came by time and chance. When a person believes that they are just a product of time and chance, they see themselves as nothing more than just a machine with little hope for the future, so they decide to just end it all, because oblivion is better than trying to live without meaning and hope.

But Catholics believe in a Personal-Infinite God who instructed the writing of the Bible, then they know that history involves order and a plan, and so the future will not end in chaos, but that history is an orderly progression toward a definite event where everything will be resolved. When a person has that attitude, they know that they don't need to self harm, but to trust in the real God who has communicated to mankind through the Bible - and for Catholics, through tradition and the Pope.

The blood of Christ shed on the Cross quenched the fire of God’s vindictive wrath
Romans 5:9

So the answer for believers to the OP question would be a no.

I'm sure there is a need for penitence and confession and guidance from a counselor

Searching_for_God said:

Please note that this is in the Catholic Forum, meaning I'd only like responses from Catholics. Thank you.

I was just curious to know, does God get angry with those who self harm? I believe that God gave us our bodies as gifts, and he does not want us misusing said gifts... so I wonder if he gets mad at those of us who self harm. What do you guys think?

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Well, St. Paul writes in his first letter to the Corinthians that,


[1 Corinthians 6:12-20]

The Catechism also says:


[CCC #2288]

I'm not so sure it angers God, so much as it deeply grieves him. But then there may be plenty of material from Church fathers, theologians, Doctors of the Church, etc who say otherwise. Either way, it's not something we should do, and if it's something you're caught up in I would highly recommend sitting down with a [Catholic] councilor to discuss it and help you stop.

There is only one way we can give hope to someone who has lost the will to live and who is serious contemplating suicide. We must show them that there is a Personal-Infinite God who is real and who knows and loves them, and that His plans for them is to give them a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). There is no other answer. Counselling, even from a psychologist or a psychiatrist who ignores the reality of God and the truth of the Bible, no matter how educated they are in mental health, will not be able to provide a sufficient answer to provide any sort of antidote to the basic hopelessness that the patient feels.

Let's say that you love someone very, very much, so much that you'd even give your own life for that person. But, let's say you find out that something is making him/her cut their bodies & hurt themselves. How would that make you feel?

If your body is a treasured gift from God, how would he feel if you were damaging that precious gift of His? I think it would grieve Him immensely. He gave His only Son Jesus whose body was cut and shredded for our sins so that we don't have punish ourselves by cutting our bodies. But if we continue to go on & punish our own bodies by cutting and inflicting pain, then... I think it would grieve God's heart that we don't fully understand why Jesus suffered and died for us. Jesus suffered the pain sin brings into our lives so that we no longer have to suffer & live in pain. Jesus set us free from shame and guilt. His resurrection is a powerful display of the power that believers have in our own lives by faith to overcome sin in our lives.

It's not just about getting God mad. He's not angry. He's saddened by the truth that we continue to live as though we still need to punish ourselves, when it's all been PAID in full. Jesus paid it all. <3

People self harm as a way of dealing with inner pain and anxiety. I think God cries with them, feeling their pain. I think God wishes them relief, and sends them to doctors who will help them.

God does not send them Job's friends to condemn them.

I hope you don't mind my asking. Why do you self harm? And how do you feel about self harming?

clayjars said:

I hope you don't mind my asking. Why do you self harm? And how do you feel about self harming?

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Some people will cut or burn themselves out of mental distress. It is indicative of a serious personality disorder of some sort, I've been told.

There are rare instances where individuals are fixated on the obsession that they are "supposed to" be without a limb, and sometimes they will do what it takes to lose that limb (and they feel better afterwords). This too is seen as a mental problem.

Also in some culture, scarring is practiced as body art, no different than tattooing. It's in a totally different category.

Searching_for_God said:

Please note that this is in the Catholic Forum, meaning I'd only like responses from Catholics. Thank you.

I was just curious to know, does God get angry with those who self harm? I believe that God gave us our bodies as gifts, and he does not want us misusing said gifts... so I wonder if he gets mad at those of us who self harm. What do you guys think?

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Why did you delete my post then. I am cleearly marked as Catholic.

Searching_for_God said:

Please note that this is in the Catholic Forum, meaning I'd only like responses from Catholics. Thank you.

I was just curious to know, does God get angry with those who self harm? I believe that God gave us our bodies as gifts, and he does not want us misusing said gifts... so I wonder if he gets mad at those of us who self harm. What do you guys think?

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isn't a sin harmful?

In years gone by As penance some would engage in self mortification of the body. Lashing themselves often causing cuts. One of the saints at fatima i forget who started doing the same as our lady asked for penance but our lady asked the saint to stop doing it... so its not something heaven wants us to do even as penance

The Grouch said:

In years gone by As penance some would engage in self mortification of the body. Lashing themselves often causing cuts. One of the saints at fatima i forget who started doing the same as our lady asked for penance but our lady asked the saint to stop doing it

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I'm glad she did that, ask whoever that was to stop. Physical self inflicted pain... doesn't sound very good.