PCUSA position on suicide?

[edmund_fitzgerald]

This may or may not be the correct place to post this; I'm new around here and am not entirely familiar with all the potential categories. (Moderators: please relocate if necessary.)

That said, I'm unsure of the existence of any official (to use the term loosely) doctrine on suicide. At least in the past, the Catholic Church classified it as a mortal sin, for what that may be worth. However, since there are no analogues in a Calvinist faith, that's strictly for background material. Can anyone point to some specific doctrinal statement, including the source and supporting Scripture?

Thanks.

 

[RC1970]

Sin is in ones intent, and only the individual and God can know anyone's intent. So we would need to know more about each case and, unfortunately, we don't have access to the party involved.

 

[Tigger45]

This may or may not be the correct place to post this; I'm new around here and am not entirely familiar with all the potential categories. (Moderators: please relocate if necessary.)

That said, I'm unsure of the existence of any official (to use the term loosely) doctrine on suicide. At least in the past, the Catholic Church classified it as a mortal sin, for what that may be worth. However, since there are no analogues in a Calvinist faith, that's strictly for background material. Can anyone point to some specific doctrinal statement, including the source and supporting Scripture?

Thanks.

This might be another good forum to get specifics on Presbyterian teachings.
Confessional, Covenantal, Creedal - Presby

 

[Edmond Smith]

Thou shall not Kill. Exodus 20:13

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matt 11:28

If we say we are Born Again, and have put our Trust In Christ. Then when the thoughts of suicide comes against us. We have to remember who we are and who our savior is and what He did, done and going to do for us. Then we need to search ourselves and examine ourselves to find out what we did to put ourselves in that position in the first place. Repent and walk away from that life.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1Co 10:13

God would not ever put us thru temptation. He will allow it. But when he does, he always makes a way to escape so we can bear it. You notice here he doesn't say...I will remove it. Sometimes He doesn't. Just like with Paul, He had an affliction and he prayed time after time for God to remove it...God said, "My grace is sufficient"

Having had "so-called" friends commit suicide. There is no good in it at all. None. Nothing good comes of it and many times it makes things worse. That doesn't sound like God's plan to me.

Suicide is also extremely selfish. Now I know there's those who are going to argue about "how the mental" or "those who are on their death bed and can't have a vibrant productive life". Well here's the answer....God created them, He knew what He was doing when He did it. He knows what is going to happen to them and many times He uses them for His Glory and our Salvation.
It's not our job to define our ending. God has the Keys to Death, Hell and the Grave. We have no business trying to take them from Him...because when you do..you claim to be God yourself.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3

I'm not Presbyterian, But do believe that Presbyterian's read the Bible.