Suicide outcome

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Some would. Some would not. Your eternal destination does not depend on an act of suicide. You will inherit eternal life if you are born of the Spirit.

Exodus 20:

13 “You shall not murder.

I'd interpret this as including "You shall not murder/kill yourself". Accordingly, suicide is a sin.

There are seven suicides in the Bible.

The most famous one is Judas Iscariot. Matt. 27:

5 [Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Jesus commented in Matthew 26:

24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.

Judas would likely not inherit eternal life. Hitler also committed suicide.

King Saul apparently killed himself in 1 Sam. 31:

4 Saul took a sword and fell on it

Saul wasn't a favorite of God, 1 Samuel 15:

11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.”

King Saul probably would not inherit eternal life.

Judges 9:

54 [Abimelech] called hastily unto the young man his armor-bearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died

Around the time of Saul's death, 1 Sam 31:

5 When [Saul's] armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword and died.

To me, this armor-bearer died an honorable death. God might give him eternal life.

Samson sacrificed himself to kill his enemies, Judges 16:

30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed with all his might; and the house fell...upon all the people that were therein.

This is the so-called Samson's option (同歸於盡), a kind of perish-together strategy. Samson was a mighty prophet. He would likely inherit eternal life.

Ahithophel couldn't handle rejection, 2 Sam. 17:

23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he...got him home to his house, to his city, and put his house in order, and hanged himself, and died

To me, he was a wimp. John wasn't so nice about them, Revelation 21:

8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Commander Omri rebelled against King Zimri, 1 Kings 16:

18 It came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died 19 because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

Omri is another wimp committing suicide. He is not likely to inherit eternal life.

The favorable suicides were Samson's sacrifice and the honorable death of King Saul's armor-bearer.

What happens to Christians who commit suicide?

If you have the Paraclete Spirit dwelling in you, you are not likely to kill yourself, except in extreme circumstances. When you live, you are not living for yourself but living for God. It is better to glorify God at the moment of our death.

1 Cor 3:

16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Live for God's sake.

See also

• Christians with suicidal thoughts
• How to deal with depression