While admitting that he thought about taking his own life when he experienced despair and guilt, Tullian Tchividjian suggested that Christians aren’t damned directly because of suicide.
Tchividjian, a former megachurch pastor who resigned from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in 2015 following an extramarital affair, said on Facebook that he constantly gets asked:
“If someone commits suicide, do they go to Heaven?”
The grandson of late evangelist Billy Graham responded: “We are not saved based on whether or not we commit suicide. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in the finished work of Christ alone.”
Offering a more detailed response, addressed to one person in particular who asked if killing himself would send him to Hell, Tchividjian said:
“I’m so sorry to hear you’re struggling. I know that pain and it can be excruciating and debilitating. You are most emphatically not alone. Justification (our salvation) is not based on anything we do or fail to do. It is based solely on the finished work of Christ. You are and will forever be firmly gripped by him and him alone,” Tchividjian wrote to the unidentified individual.
“That being said, I strongly encourage you to seek help at whatever cost….
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