Reasons to refuse the Jesus' gift of eternal life?

Question

I am so thankful that Jesus went all that length to save my soul, and I gladly accept His gift of eternal life.
Why people want to refuse it? What is so important to them that they want to decline this gift? Where they go rather than to be with God???
I do not get it...Everybody answer this..you and you and you....

Answer 1

people dont want to admit theyre sinful and that they are doing wrong
to admit that Jesus is your savior means that you are admitting that you are living your life in sin, and that you need to be saved. it is natural for people to sin, and to leave your sinful ways is very difficult. many people would rather choose to ignore it and pass it off as fiction so they will not feel grievance

Answer 2

As a child I was raised to believe in Christian beliefs. BUt then my eyes were opened when I grew older. Questions of which faith was the right one raced through my mind. The fact of the matter is that we don't know what religion has it right.... if any religion has it right. I've given up on religion but not spirituality. I believe in Karma and I believe that there is some divine being or divine beings that created the Earth. I don't believe we are supposed to force ourselves to live a certain way just because we are afraid of reprecussions that are unknown to us. I figure if you live a good life then you'll recieve and ultimate reward. If the God defined by the Bible was real, why is the bible so contradictive? What is a holy war? Why would God create people that he knows are going to Hell? If he knows everything, then what's the point of life? It must be deeper than any religion can possibly say. I'm interested on hearing feedback.

Answer 3

I used to be Christian, but I just found all the contradictions that are in the New Testament and the Old Testament, and not to mention between the different gospels. That led me to believe that there is no way that he could have been the Son of G-d, a wise teacher yes, but a man. Plus it feels like some people try and scare people into the religion with hell. I also believe that the Christian trinity is idolarity, I don't buy the 3 is 1 bit, there is still 3 there. I believe that there is one and only G-d, and nothing will come before Him and nothing will come after Him.

Answer 4

Because you have NO proof that Jesus existed let alone that he was divine or gave us a gift of eternal life. I can't reject something that i don't believe in... And it is no different than you rejecting other religions. You've been given a religion by your parents, peers, etc and believe in it without questioning it. If you were born in India you'd be a Hindu and worshiping Krishna instead of Yahweh. And you'd still be an narrow-minded idiot thinking your religion and beliefs are superior to everyone elses.
The fact of the matter is nobody KNOWS anything for certain about god IF one even exists at all. Perhaps you should learn about other religions and ask yourself how you know YOUR religion is true and theirs is false?

Answer 5

Well, the problem is that Jesus died 1,970 years ago, so he's just crumbled into dust since then, even more than my nan who died in 1986, and neither of them are capable of giving me much, either conversation, love, or eternal life (who on earth would want to live for all eternity? Not me!) So anyway, a dead man can't help me, and the important thing is getting on and living a decent life now rather than hoping for something vague one day, I'm perfectly happy with my allotted lifespan and it's my aim to do as much with it as possible and to do as little harm: love my family, bring up my children well, achieve contentedness and not be afraid to die. And so far so good. Sorry to hear that's not good enough for you. You believe, I don't. You should get used to the fact that we all see things differently.

Answer 6

I don't believe the story of Jesus is factual, but I will start with the assumption that Christians are correct, and the only way to heaven is through belief in Jesus. That would mean a blissful afterlife would be a reward for worship. In other words, God/Jesus require it for some reason. If worship was inconsequential to God, it wouldn't be so crucial for us to do it. It is, so God has a need for us to praise him. That suggests that God has an ego. God's ego is strong enough that, if we do not praise him properly, we risk eternal damnation. That suggests God is cruel. Our behavior could be acceptable, even morally superior, but without our expression of obedience to God, we STILL risk eternal damnation, because (according to Christian dogma) the only way to salvation is through acceptance of Jesus as our savior. So this suggests to me that God is narrowminded and perhaps a little crazy. Spending eternity with a egotistical, cruel, narrowminded deity who is demanding my worship does NOT sound like paradise. It sounds pretty frightening. If God is that demanding, I would rather die and be damned, and deal with the consequences.

But to me this is just for the sake of argument, because the Christian theories of the afterlife sound like they were written by scared children hiding under their beds. If there is an afterlife, I'm sure it will be significantly different that anything Christians imagined.

Answer 7

There is nothing to be saved from, therefore I do not need to accept "Jesus gift of eternal life". Futhermore, it isn't his gift to give. I do not believe in orginal sin, or the idea of sin in general. I do not think I can do anything to offend "God". I do not believe that because as you say I "refuse his gift" that I will not be with God. I am with God now, God has never "left" me. There is nothing I need to do to be accepted by God. There is nothing I have done that needs forgiveness.

Answer 8

Some people would rather selfishly live their lives out on this earth, pissing on everyone else to get to the top, how can they dare search out for the "light" when it exposes all the darkness and evil in their hearts?

When you keep turning your back on God, eventually your heart grows too cold to even know what the truth is.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Corintians 1:18

Answer 9

personaly I will tell you before i began to accept Jesusin my life, I wasn't interested, I didn't want to hand my life over to a person that I couldn't see, I thought that I could do things on my own, I thought loving Jesus was corny and fake and so I stayed away. I think many ppl are enjoying thier lives and don't care about anything until a crisis shows up, or they will follow a another religion in which they can try to fix things themselves which will never work.

Answer 10

Who Denies The Lord
Titus 1: 10 -16 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. 12 one of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The gretians are always bellies. 13 this witness is true. wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 15 Unto the pure all things are pure all things are pure: but nothing pure; but even their mind and con science is defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Their are many diffrent answers to that question. Power, greed, Not understanding Jesus's words, How they are raised, sience communitys, money, and much more.
These are things of none unfaithfulness, it is much easier to be a none Christian then a Christian, because many people believe that God demands for to much, and they become angry at God, but God remands faithful for us.

Answer 11

What liquid did your brain get washed with? Whoever did it, did a darn good job. Ask yourself these questions: Were I not born into the situation(family, race, religion etc) I was born into would I feel the same way about some of the beliefs that I have? Why do I believe what I believe? Had no one told me about these beliefs and explanations for life would they have occurred to me? Good luck being honest with yourself, it is one of the more challenging but rewarding things a human being can afford themselves. :-)