A Suicide Question

There is a guy on another site that says those who kill themselves will go to the lake of fire.
He uses 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 3:17. I don’t believe he is right. What do you think?

Q. There is a guy on another site that says those who kill themselves will go to the lake of fire. He uses 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 3:17. I don’t believe he is right. What do you think?

A. I’m with you. 1 Cor. 3:16-17 says, Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

The word translated “you” in the passage is plural but temple is singular. It means that together believers make up the Temple of God. Paul began chapter 3 by talking against divisions in the Church. His point in verses 16-17 is that those who tear local churches apart are demonstrating by their actions that they aren’t truly saved. In John 13:35 the Lord said the distinguishing feature of the Church should be how we love one another, and those who create division are not acting in love.

In 1 Cor. 6:19 Paul speaks of our bodies being a Temple of the Holy Spirit, and there the singular is used. It’s an admonition against sexual sin, the only one committed against one’s own body.

So the Holy Spirit is sealed within each of us and when we come together as a church, we become the Temple of God.

When the Lord went to the cross, He took every sin of our lives with Him. (Col. 2:13-14) If the last one happened to be self-murder, he foresaw it, paid for it, and when we asked, He forgave it.