 If a person committed suicide, could that person, if they're a believer, go to heaven? In other words, could a Christian commit suicide and go to heaven? Well, the reason why this question comes up is because people would assume that you must repent of all sins in order to go to heaven. And the person who commits suicide, obviously they don't have the ability to repent of committing suicide because they're no longer alive, right? So the question needs further examination than doesn't it? Because what does repentance actually mean? And to what degree are we to repent of? That sounds kind of odd to even ask that question because we're supposed to repent. So what does that mean? Well, the word repent is from the Greek word metanoia, which is a combination of two words, meta and the noia which is with or after which is meta and the noia which refers to mind or thinking. What it means or what it entails is a changing of the way you think. It doesn't necessarily mean changing your actions, changing your things that you do. Now, let's be clear, when a person changes their mind and in this case about sin, it should obviously lead to someone's decisions, someone's actions also being changed. John spoke to the Pharisees when he called them brutal vipers. What fruits of repentance have you brought? And so when a person repents, there should be a change in that person's action, right? Well, think about this, when a person dies, whether they're 20, 50, 90, whatever, won't that person when they die still have some sins that they're dealing with? They won't be perfect after all, right? And so maybe the person still deals with anger or the person may have some issues with lust. Whatever it is, there's going to be something, some sin that is still present in that person's life. And this sin isn't a sin that's just shown up. This is a sin that they've been dealing with all along, right? And so maybe the person's been a believer for 10 years, 20, 30, 40, 50 years, who knows? But all that time, they've been dealing with a particular sin. Now, hopefully the sin is not as prevalent now as it was in the past, but still it is a sin nonetheless. And so if we take the belief that to repent means that we've turned away from all sin, then who could be saved? Because everyone that dies will still have been dealing with a sin. It'll be maybe a nagging sin, a recurring sin, just like Paul says in Romans chapter 7. So we're all going to have that to deal with. And so it would be false to say that a person who happens to commit suicide, the reason why they wouldn't go to heaven is because they didn't repent of that sin of suicide. Now, it could be that the person who committed suicide was not a believer. And so they lacked faith in Christ. They lacked necessary trusting in what God could do for them. But at the same time, it would also be false to say that Christians don't struggle, that Christians don't have bouts of depression, things that they go through and have this little emotional and internal struggle that they deal with. So yes, Christians who do commit suicide could go to heaven. Suicide does not stop a person or prevent a person from going to heaven. It is not the unpardonable sin.