Bible Questions Answered:
Pastor, I read recently that a person can order on the internet something called a suicide kit. Have you heard this? I don't know what verses to give my Sunday school, but I know we were always taught as kids, this is wrong! And there is now assisted suicide, legal in two states.
Helen/ Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Yes, certainly this is terrible thing!
First of all, it is in direct contradiction to the sixth commandment.
Exodus 20:13 KJV
Thou shalt not kill.
Suicide is, “self-murder.”
Hebrew 10:31 KJV
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
When a person, for no matter what the reason, commits suicide, he or she, is telling God, when their life should end. Not asking God, but dictating to Him, “this is the end of my life!”
This also shows that some do not believe in God, or in a life after death.
But the Word of God tells us...
Hebrews 9:27 KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Our Saviour, the Lord Jesus, told the penitent thief on a cross near Him, …
Luke 23:43 KJV
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise. (Please note, He did not say-Purgatory!)
Jesus spent much of His ministry speaking of the next life.
(For e.g. Luke 16:19-31 KJV- again, no mention of purgatory!)
“Pastor, what about those suffering from ill health, who want to end their life?”
David, said it best, when he said...
Psalm 31:14,15 NLT
14 But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying, “You are my God!”
15 My future is in your hands..."
Psalm 37:23 KJV
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and He delighteth in his way.
We must leave every moment of life, to the Lord!
Psalm 145:17 KJV
The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.
Isaiah 55:8,9 KJV
8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Romans 11:33,34 KJV
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counselor?
Another reason why this is sin against God, is the simple fact that suicide is an act of destruction!
One title of mankind's enemy is that of “Destroyer.”
Jeremiah 4:7 KJV
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
I Corinthians 10:10 KJV
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
When we use the tools of the enemy, we became, his servant.
