Suicide – The Catholic
Church says suicide victims don’t go to heaven. I don’t believe that. It’s not
in God’s Word.
I had a thought. Was it
that particular decree that kept those poor abused boys from killing
themselves? To tell them that suicide would keep them from heaven would keep
them alive, concealing the secret and making them continually available to
those who were possessed by demons to abuse.
Edicts begun in tragic sin
only perpetuate more evil.
I’ve known two people who
committed suicide. Both were wonderful, deeply sensitive people with tender
loving hearts, but troubled by hypocrisy in the world and the unresolved deeply
troubling circumstances of their lives.
I do not believe they go
to hell for not being able to handle the overwhelming attacks Satan put on
their minds and I am not ashamed to say I absolutely hate Satan for what he did
to my friends.
I can’t bring them back.
And try as we may, I am beginning to see that some of the most devastating
trials we may have in this life are things that no matter how much praying we
do or how much money we put out in order to fix things, we can’t change the
outcome.
I believe with all my
heart 1 Peter 1:23 that says we are “born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God.”
In John 3:3-4 Jesus tells Nicodemus “a man must be born again.” The word
“again” is the same word for “from above.” Then Nicodemus asked, “How can a man be born
when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be
born?”
“Jesus answered, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (vs.5). Being born of Spirit is being
born from above with the incorruptible spiritual seed of Christ, “which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory” (Col 1:27).
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved” (vss. 16-17).
Even if a person believed in Jesus and accepted him as Lord when
they were only a child and after that they stayed away from Him their whole
life, the Bible has already told us the seed in them is incorruptible.
No bodily death, no matter how it happens, can destroy what God
promised to do when someone even for one moment decided to believe God’s
spiritual truth about Jesus.
“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. But the
word of the Lord endureth for ever.”
“And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (1 Peter
1:24-25).
Not one of the Lord’s precious children is ever left behind.
Love, Carolyn
(painting by Henry Ossawa
Tanner)
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