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what part of the Bible condemns suicide?
you really should be seeking help from someone you know and trust, at the very least try asking google for more educated responses cause honestly im not the most educated person in the world, just some random redditor, shocking.
I've read the arguments I'm totally unconvinced. It mostly stems from interpreting the thou shalt not kill as including suicide even though suicide is obviously different from killing another person. Selflessness is the final doctrine of Christianity and it's obvious why killing another violates this and why killing yourself doesn't.
The idea that God would design a system where the most desperate and wounded be tortured eternally for their crime of suffering is unspeakably evil. it cannot be.
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"Suicide is obviously different from killing another person."
I'm not seeing how that's "obvious." First of all, the commandment is actually "You shall not murder." Murder is taking a life that you had no right to take. That's what makes murder wrong - it's stealing from God, essentially. Suicide is no different; your life is not your own, but God's, and you have no right to take it from him without his consent.
I will remind you that the dictionary definition of murder is "killing someone else".
but even if murder means taking a life I have no right to take, why would I not have the right to take my own life? Again it's obvious that taking the life of another is wrong because you have no right to mastery over others, using my will to "force" another to do my laundry is slavery, "forcing" myself to do my laundry is just a manifestation of my will.