11/28/2023 0 Comments Actor playing judas hangs himselfThe person who commits suicide dies while sinning but is not necessarily unsaved. If the person has not, hell is the destination. If a person accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, they go to heaven. The only black and white line for who is rescued to heaven and who continues into hell is the blood of Jesus Christ. If the act of fatally injuring oneself were an unforgiveable sin, the salvation of other believers who engaged in behavior that diminished his/her physical condition to the point of death would also be in doubt. Romans 6:23 confirms this: “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”įurther, Ephesians 2:8 iterates that salvation is from God’s works, not ours: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” But if a person has been saved by repenting of his/her sins and placing faith in Jesus Christ, there is nothing the person can do to lose his/her salvation. Many Christians have been handed down the unbiblical thought that believers who commit suicide go straight to hell. Suicide is sometimes oversimplified by society, and the victim is overly condemned. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” ( 1 Corinthians 6:19-20) “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own you were bought at a price. Therefore, our bodies are not our own any longer. When we become Christians, we commit our lives and our bodies to Christ. There is no doubt suicide is selfish and sinful for the believer. These verses indicate Judas "went where he belonged" because he betrayed Christ, not because he committed suicide. (Excerpted from " What Happened to Judas?" by Ray Pritchard) None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled” ( John 17:12). Meanwhile, Jesus is praying for his disciples: “While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. The final act is about to play itself out. Even now the soldiers are gathering for the march to the Mount of Olives. Judas has left to make the final arrangements. Listen to Jesus as he prays in the Upper Room on Thursday night. He did not literally mean that Judas was a demon, but that Judas was even then (about a year before the crucifixion) acting under Satan’s influence. “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him). If that seems harsh, consider the words of Jesus in John 6:70-71 when he said: In Acts 1:25, Peter spoke of Judas who left his apostolic ministry “to go where he belongs.” Literally, the verse reads “to go to his own place.” “His own place” is hell. Ray Pritchard of Crosswalk outlines several Bible verses that imply Judas went to hell: Many study Bibles and commentators reason the discrepancy with the common Jewish practice of citing a Major Prophet to refer to group of works which included books of Minor Prophets. And the LORD said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter’-the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the LORD” (Zachariah 11:12-13). “I told them, ‘If you think it best, give me my pay but if not, keep it.’ So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. The Book of Zachariah, however, does contain a similar reference. The Book of Jeremiah does not explicitly contain this reference.
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