Biblical View On Suicide

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Suicide is against the Bible and its teachings, more especially the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20:13 says, “Thou shalt not kill.” This is a dishonorable act, because it’s the taking of one’s life, whether it refers to killing someone else or yourself, its considered murder. The Bible clearly says that we should not kill, and since this is a commandment from God, we need to take it seriously, because once you break one it means you’ve broken all the ten. Suicide comes as a result of having no hope for living, and once a person begins having suicidal thoughts they should be taken seriously, because even though they talk jokingly they might be meaning what they’re saying, and this could also be a cry for help. Once a person going through a tough time jokes about such an act, they should seek help from a psychologist or a Pastor, because then there’ll be a lesser chance of that person taking his or her own life. The above mentioned should be some of the steps to be taken when faced with depression due to difficult circumstances. Once a person feels depressed, they begin wishing they’d never been born, and sometimes it leads them to feeling that there’s no purpose for living. Such thoughts are sinful, and if one begins having such thoughts there’s nothing they can do, but seek help from God, because He’s the giver of life and none other. In this case, all we have to do is kneel down and seek the Lord in prayer, for if we don’t, the sin goes further and further, and at the end we’ll wonder what had gone wrong, and take our own life, because we didn’t ask God for guidance. The Bible mentions some people who had suicidal thoughts, one of them being Job. Job was going through a tough time because everything he had was taken away from him, and this led him to thinking that life had no meaning for him, but even though he had these thoughts going on in his head, he never gave

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