{"id":803,"date":"2011-11-10T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=803"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:38:13","slug":"are-you-automatically-doomed-if-you-commit-suicide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=803","title":{"rendered":"Are you automatically doomed if you commit suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it true, one is automatically doomed if he commits suicide?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word <em>suicide<\/em> does not appear in the Bible.\u00a0 There are no scriptures that states a person is doomed if he commits suicide.\u00a0 I believe this thought process came from the fact that a person can ask for forgiveness for all of his sins and be forgiven.\u00a0 If a person commits suicide, he is no longer capable of asking for forgiveness.\u00a0 Others believe that if one commits suicide, he\u2019s destroying the temple of God.\u00a0 Neither of these viewpoints is our belief on suicide, but they are merely a thought process of many people.\u00a0 The Bible does not specifically say yea or nay concerning suicide.\u00a0 That decision is one that is determined by God; Heb. 4:12, \u201c\u2026..the word of God <em>is<\/em> quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and <em>is<\/em> a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d\u00a0 Anyone that commits suicide is definitely not considered to be in a rational state of mind; therefore it is ultimately up to God to discern their hearts and their thoughts at the moment of their death.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it true, one is automatically doomed if he commits suicide? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word suicide does not appear in the Bible.\u00a0 There are no scriptures that states a person is doomed if he commits suicide.\u00a0 I believe this thought process came from the fact that a person can ask for forgiveness for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-803","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}