How can so many people believe the myth of Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

They believe it out of an unconscious fear of death.


In the "higher" animals, most particularly among the mammals, threatening circumstances elicit a particular type of pain we refer to as anxiety. Anxiety constitutes a type of pain meant to prompt these "higher" order animals to avoid potentially hazardous circumstances. For example, a rabbit is cornered by a mountain lion. In such a situation, the rabbit is pumped with adrenaline, charged with the painful symptoms of anxiety, all meant to incite the rabbit to most effectively escape from the source of its discomfort, in this case the mountain lion. In its healthiest form, anxiety is meant to prompt an animal to avoid or escape a potentially hazardous experience. In humans, however, once we became aware of the fact that death was not only inescapable but that it could come at any moment, we were left in a state of constant mortal peril, a state of unceasing anxiety -- much like rabbits perpetually cornered by a mountain lion from which there is no escape. With the emergence of self-awareness, humans became the dysfunctional animal, rendered helpless by an inherent and unceasing anxiety disorder. Unless nature could somehow relieve us of this debilitating awareness of death, it's possible our species might have soon become extinct. It was suddenly critical that our animal be modified in some way that would allow us to maintain self-conscious awareness, while enabling us to deal with our unique awareness of our own mortalities, of death.
-- Matthew Alper, from "The Premise" to his book, The God Part of the Brain ††

Answer 2

I think it's cos people wanna believe that they're going to some place better after they die & they'll meet the man that created everything, when in reality if there is a god in control of everything they should be feeling like he's got alot of explaining to do for all the bullsh*t that goes on in this world....Me personally, I feel like this is the greatest lie ever told & no one bothered to stop it from continuing on for all these centuries & it just kept getting passed down forever....To me religions are cults because if you analyze carefuly, If you aren't a part of them you are excluded ( This happens wth couples all the time when one is a different religion then the other, families are not as accepting!) Therefore I am an athiest!

Answer 3

Hello Godless Human.. :)

It is simple..if Jesus was a Myth we wouldn't believe.. :)

In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ..

Answer 4

If you think He's a myth then why are you so worried about it?

Again, it can and has been proven that Jesus is not a myth.

Myths come and go but TRUTH is forever.

Answer 5

Its called faith. The definition of faith is: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. People that believe in Jesus have faith in him and God that they are real. Im not sure how this world would have arrived with out a creator. Good luck in your journey.

PS I dont think you are going to hell!

Answer 6

because the myth is full of both empty promises and empty threats that people beleive in. plyus religion gives peopel a warm fuzzy feelign inside and also fillsa psychological void.

Answer 7

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

Answer 8

well it definately is not a myth and that is why it's simple for many,many,believers in christ.however not so easy to believe in a human goddess,no such thing.

Answer 9

Because it isn't a myth. If it is a hoax, as you seem to infer, then it's the biggest hoax ever of mankind.

Answer 10

two words... Santa Claus

some people are trained to believe lies from the time the are tiny little kids