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Hello and welcome to the Ask NT Write Anything podcast, the program where we answer your questions about Jesus, Bible and the life of faith.

I'm Mike Bird from Really College in Melbourne, Australia.

And I'm Tom Wright from Oxford in England.

And as we look at some questions this week, I've got to offer a little bit of a warning.

We're going to start off with a very sensitive one, a very difficult one, and that is the tragic topic of suicide.

I can imagine that every person, every family who might listen to this podcast will know someone

or know of someone who has taken their own life, and every suicide is a tragedy. But it's one of the things we do have to

address, at least in a pastoral way, in a theological way, and then ask, what does the Bible

say about this? And what do we say on the basis of the Bible? So, Tom, I'm going to read a

couple of questions we have. The first one is from

Andrew Mason in Newcastle, the United Kingdom, where he asked this. I once led an RE lesson

with six classes of Year 7 pupils in a middle school. To end each lesson, I did a grill a Christian section and let them put questions into a tub,

and I drew random ones to try and answer.

Without any warning, I got the question,

Why does God let people commit suicide?

Try answering that question with no time print.

I know what I said, what's your answer?

So this is addressed to Tom, but we've got a very similar question.

This is from Kay Hills in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom,

and Kay asks, do you go to heaven if you commit suicide and you are a born again Christian?

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