Why do people commit suicide?

Full Question:

What is the exact reason behind many people are committing suicide? Why do people commit suicide, if God only gives them as much as they can take?

Answer:

This is one among the interesting question which someone asked to me. It made me think for a while to get to the answer. But my helper, the wonderful councilor, Holy Spirit, helped me to find the answer and the answer is simple and very interesting.

Suicide which means 'the act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself', is a term which we are so familiar with especially in this days. We can see and hear lots of news regarding suicide in newspapers, televisions and Internet. It is very difficult to say, an exact reason behind the suicide. It is because suicide is not only committing by any particular type of person or in a particular situation. It is committed by both poor and rich, healthy and unhealthy, educated and uneducated, married and unmarried, theists and atheists, white and black, male and female, employed and unemployed, parents and children, common and celebrity, and so on.

I studied and discovered the reason behind suicide. According to science or psychology, the most common cause is an underlying mental disorder which include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism  and drug abuse. Financial difficulties or other undesirable situations play a significant role. On studying more things related to causes said by psychology opened the door to some important facts.

The main question is 'Why do people with no mental disorder commits suicide?' We are not able to read the mind of other people, but there are many cases in which the people who are very close to the committed person witnessed that 'he was not going through any mental disorder.' even if in that case, what may be the reason, which resulted in a sudden mental depression and so on.

Whatever it may be, there are people who committed and tried to commit suicide, in the Bible and I do believe that the Bible is able to provide the best answer. There are six persons who committed suicide in the Bible. They are Abimelech, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, and Judas. Death of Samson and Jesus Christ was not a suicide for its purpose was good for it was to destroy the enemies and to save many. More clearly, a soldier in war know very well that he may lose his life in the war. But still he is ready to fight to his nation and it can never called as a suicide. The reason behind the death of people who committed sucide in Bible are fear, rejection, guilty, shame etc which can be grouped under the psychological causes. But still it don't explains the reason behind the psychological cause.

But Bible gives tells us the reason behind the psychological cause in the New Testament. In New Testament we can see Jesus Christ healing a boy with an Evil Spirit in Mark 9:14-32. The father of that boy describes the situation as 'the evil spirit has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him' which is exactly 'suicide'. When Jesus cast out that spirit, the boy became free from the tendency to commit suicide. If we study more about this, we can understand that an Evil Spirit is not a human being or something with flesh to pull or push someone into the fire, water and so on. But what the evil spirit is doing is that, it works in the mind of people in such a way that he may feel hopeless, afraid, rejected, depressed and so on causing him mental disorder which result him to commit suicide.

Because of this I do believe very well that 'an Evil spirit' is the exact reason behind suicide of any person by causing him mental disorders. We can see the same situation in Mark 5: 1-20, where a large herd of swines about 2000 in number committing suicide by rushing down the steep bank into the lake just after the demons entered into the pigs. I do believe very well that the reason behind the suicide of Judas Iscariot  was also the demonic spirit. We can see that the demonic spirit entered in Judas Iscariot just after he took the bread in John 13:27. According to me, the goal of that demonic spirit was not only to betray Jesus Christ because Bible says that they come to steal, kill and destroy, which resulted him to be guilty and to commit suicide thereafter in Matthew 27:5.

This does not means that people should commit suicide after the possession of this demonic spirit. The easy ways explained in the Bible to escape from these demonic spirits are, 1. Do not give place to evil, 2. Submit to God and resist the evil, 3. Cast the demonic spirits out, 4. Stay with Jesus Christ along with fasting and prayer to be in authority over those spiritual beings.

The answer to next question which is 'Why do people commit suicide, if God only gives you as much as you can take?' is simple. The above verse is in  1 Corinthians 10:13 as "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."

According to me, there are three main reasons for people to commit suicide when God gives you as much as you can take. Before that you should have to be aware the answer of 'How God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able?' described in the above verse. It is by providing us a way of escape that we may be able to bear it. That way of escape is Jesus Christ, and anyone can escape through that way by believing him as Lord and Savior. But people are not ready to choose Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. They choose the only other way left which is committing suicide. May be it is difficult to believe me, but I will show evidence from Bible. In the book of acts chapter 16, we can see a keeper of prison was about to commit suicide just as anyone else by seeing the prison doors opened. But God opened a way of escape for him which is to be saved by believe in Jesus Christ. He choose the way of escape which is the Jesus Christ and got saved without committing any suicide.

The second reason is that God will give His grace, strength, way of escape and so on only to the people who are willing to face the temptations, problems and troubles in their life. The act of suicide is to run away from all these problems, temptations and troubles without trying to face these problems.

The third reason is that as I mentioned above which is by the possession of demonic spirit which blind their eyes and made them believe that 'they have reached the maximum limit which they can bear. And the same demonic spirit made him blind as mentioned above by making them believe that, the best way to escape is to commit suicide and to end this life. Satan will also fool him by telling that all the problems in his life will come to end by this one simple act 'suicide'.

May God bless all of you with this answer to understand the reason behind suicide and to know why people commit suicide, if God only gives them as much as they can take. May He also bless you to deliver many people from their temptations to commit suicide.