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Gabriela says when someone commits
suicide did they go to hell or to heaven
you know traditionally the church is
taking a stand that anybody who commits
suicide goes to hell and the reason I
believe that they teach that is because
they believe that’s a sin which I agree
that it’s a sin you shouldn’t take your
own life that’s wrong it’s a sin but
they believe that every sin has to be
repented of and confessed and and you
have to receive forgiveness for that
individual sin and since you kill
yourself you can’t ask forgiveness for
something because you’re no longer alive
so they assume that that is an
unpardonable sin I’ve got an entire
teaching on this entitled eternal
Redemption it’s in my spirit soul and
body and in my Redemption album and in
just a bunch of different things but the
book of Hebrews shows that you’ve been
forgiven of all sin past present and
even future sin and this concept that
every time you sin you have to get that
sin under the blood and if you don’t
somehow another it’s not covered and it
would make you lose your salvation
that’s wrong and I believe that that’s
what’s led to making people think like
if they commit suicide that they can’t
go to heaven because they didn’t have
time to get it forgiven they were dead
they couldn’t ask forgiveness
I personally believe suicide is a sin
just like any other sin but I don’t
believe it would keep a person from
going to heaven again this is a little
bit of an opinion but I’m saying that
because I believe that all of our sins
past present and even future sins have
been dealt with people who believe they
can’t go to heaven it’s because they
didn’t get it confessed and I disagree
with that logic so the byproduct of that
is that I believe a person could go to
heaven if they commit suicide let me
just say this so that nobody will go out
and go commit suicide based on what I’ve
said I think that suicide is probably
one of the most selfish things that you
can possibly do you are only thinking
about yourself and for whatever pain or
whatever sorrow whatever is driven you
to this place that you think going
to be with the Lord would be better
first of all let me say a person who
isn’t born again I can guarantee you if
they commit suicide they’re going to
hell there is no limbo no second chance
no purgatory or anything like that but
if you were a Christian before you
committed suicide I don’t think that’s
an unpardonable sin I believe you could
still go to heaven but it is a super
selfish sin I mean incredibly selfish
you are just thinking about ending your
suffering and going on to be with the
Lord where we have promise of all of
these things that there be no more song
no more crying no more pain that you are
forgetting everybody else and I
guarantee you whoever you are there’s
somebody who loves you there’s somebody
who have you committed suicide it would
damage them it would hurt them if
nothing else what about all of the
people that you’ve witness to and that
you’ve told them about the goodness of
God and you’ve tried to tell them about
how the Lord will minister to them and
the Lord will be their strength and then
they see you just taking this cheap way
out I think it’s a terrible witness it
is incredibly selfish incredibly selfish
you’re going to Devitt devastate people
for the rest of their lives with no
chance of reconciliation they’ll never
be able to talk to you and find out why
exactly everything happened they’ll
never be able to reconcile with you it’s
just incredibly incredibly selfish but
no I think if a person is a Christian
and that’s debatable there’s a lot of
people who commit suicide who say
they’re a Christian but that doesn’t
mean they are but if they were a true
born-again Christian and they commit
suicide that is not an unpardonable sin
I don’t think it sends you to hell