In this video, Dr. Phil Fernandes, President of the Institute of Biblical Defense and pastor of Trinity Bible Fellowship, addresses a question he's often asked in pastoral counseling: what happens, biblically, to someone who dies by suicide. He acknowledges Scripture doesn't give a definitive answer, and distinguishes between how he'd counsel someone currently struggling with suicidal thoughts versus how he'd comfort someone grieving a loved one lost to suicide. He also discusses several biblical figures whose deaths are sometimes debated in this context, including Samson and King Saul.

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