Non-christians: What holds you back from believing that Jesus is our Saviour?

Question

I want to know what you have to say.... jesus really is our saviour!

Answer 1

Having a brain, and using it.

Answer 2

I was raised in church....but still yet I have always had a hard time believing in some thing or some one I could'nt see or hear.People say you gotta have faith,is'nt that the same as hope? Plus there is so many prophets-preachers that say their religion is the right one=I think it's baised on what part of the world you come from,what your parents raise you to believe,etc.... Some people need the belief that there is something more to us than what they see or know. When you educate yourself in science and mathmatics and see how things work in certain ways,it makes you start questioning how we came to be,-not saying science takes the place of God,but only that it gives you another way of thinking about things. Most religious people I know will give you an answer for just about any question you have,but no details only scripture and faith.

Answer 3

To believe that Jesus was my savior, I would have to believe that people need saving in the first place. If God created us in his image, and if God deemed his creation as good, how could we possibly get that bad? I know, I know, I know...there's the whole Satan thing. But if God created Satan, he had to know what he was doing when he did it (and you, presumably having more religious faith than I do probably believe that God is all-knowing and infallible). So if God knew that Satan would become evil, maybe he understood that without evil, good can't exist. Thus, to maintain the balance of the universe, maybe it is best that we humans have somewhat of a dual nature. Kind of a yin and yang if you will. This isn't exactly what I believe or all I believe about Jesus and the need for a savior, but it's the best way I can lay it out coming from your point of reference as a Christian. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

What holds them back from what I am finding...and especially from young 'TOM'... is they want ‘PROOF’ of His Existence: ‘PROOF’ that He is Real: ‘PROOF’ of His miracles: PROOF>>>PROOF>>>> PROOF!!!

Its hilarious… 2006 years ago The Jews had all the proof they needed…The Disciples had all the proof they needed… They saw him turn water into wine… feed a multitude with a few fish and loaves… heal lepers… make the blind see… walk on water… fulfil prophesy… make prophesy… cast out daemons!!! & what did they do?

DENIED HIM & NAILED HIM ON A CROSS-TO DIE!!!

3 Days later …. He gets up from the DEAD… shows himself to JUST ONE OR TWO PEOPLE KNOCKING ABOUT!! Has at least one, sticking his hand in his side, and through the holes in his hands!!! AND PEOPLE STILL WOULD NOT BELIEVE!!!!

Can someone please tell me…what on Gods green: earth would make the people like my mate Tom: any different today?

They may not nail Him to another tree (but even that would not surprise me these days)… but they would sure have Him shot, gassed, electrocuted, or killed in some other way, as a religious fundamentalist… locked away in some Guatemala bay camp… or gagged & restrained in a lunatic asylum beyond reach!!

If people won’t believe the real thing when they have it in front of them: and the PROOF there in… why do we expect them to have an easy time believing US: when the only proof we can offer… is our testimonies & ourselves???????

Without a great dose of God’s HELP & the odd miracle here or there… whom & which they don’t believe in anyway!!!

All we can do is so the seed… Use the Word of God…be true & faithful to our own beliefs: and leave it to God to PROVE Himself… to those who ‘TRULY’ want to know the ‘TRUTH’: and not just cause an argument, or get us riled!!

God bless.. Shalom!!

Answer 5

He may be your savior, but you need to get over trying to shove him down everyone else's throat. There are many gods and goddesses and not everyone wants yours. Your god even said that his people were not to put other gods before him because he was a "jealous god", not the only god.
I respect Jesus, some of the ideals and he was special, but that is not the path for everyone.
I don't consider myself held back as I don't think Jesus would like what has grown up around his name in the first place so nothing for me to accept there, and none of that religion holds anything for me. One of the big reasons being that the followers feel the need to make all like them and there is only One Way.

Answer 6

What holds you back from getting over this fictional fantasy, research what the Bible really is and how it was put together, realise that there is not an historical person called Jesus and then come back and ask the same thing...

Why don't you believe in Zeus? probably for a similar reason I don't share your belief, you aren't so different to me...unbeliever!

Answer 7

I'm with munkypoo.What makes you think he is? I thought that in your bible it says not to worship a man ....what's up with this Jesus is my saviour mess? Some think that if he was around today that he would be just another crazy homeless guy running around New York...no pun intended on any New Yorkers

Answer 8

First, there's Christians' snotty attitude. That's not the most important reason by any stretch, but it's the reason why I can't stand religious groups.

I mean, you phrase your question as if there's some defect in us because we aren't Christian. That's incredibly patronizing. It's insulting. I consider myself an even better person now that I'm no longer a Christian, despite the fact that many people won't even give me the time of day anymore.

A few of the major steps in my journey away from Christianity could be summarized by saying that I had my perspective shaken, and then I analyzed Christianity more critically.

The perspective fell apart when some religious people I trusted used their high and mighty, holier-than-thou positions of authority to accuse me of something that was blatantly false. I knew they were wrong, but they persisted because they trusted their god more than plain fact. They trusted some imaginary voice in their heads more than they trusted me.

The fact that I missed out on a fancy summer I had been planning with them--to the detriment of my studies that spring--helped keep me from shrugging that off. I was finally able to break the hypnotic sway of the Christian propaganda, to separate myself from their mass of non-thinking, and to re-evaluate myself in a more objective light. I notice that all the convincing I had to try to do to myself while I was still a Christian was just a load of mantras. I wanted to believe things that didn't make sense, so I kept repeating them to myself over and over until I believed them. I found that if I stopped repeating the mantras and instead tried *thinking* about them, they looked silly. I wasn't really "receiving the Holy Spirit" at worship times. I was pretending, just like everyone else. There was nothing special or sacred about prayer. Those people who lost themselves in it were just playing along, even fooling themselves.

The inner workings of the religion shattered, I began to examine the practical effects of the religion on other people, and that drove me even further away. I spent some time traveling in Asia, where I met many people who (surprise!) were even nicer than any Christians I'd ever known, and they liked me for reasons other than my religion (which I'd tossed aside by that point). There was real, human life outside of Christendom, and these non-Christians were not the filthy heathens I kept hearing about from my former coreligionists. I couldn't imagine that a loving god could pretend to treat everyone fairly and then throw a bunch of nonprivileged people into, well, the rest of the world, while only blessing those people deemed fit to live in polite, Christian society.

Then, I questioned the very idea of rational Christianity. If the practice was all an act, and the practical side was mean and cruel, maybe there were still intellectual reasons to hold to the faith.

Nope, there weren't. The more I examined religious arguments, the more silly fallacies I saw embedded in the heart of each, and the more I found myself completely unable to embrace religious thought. I saw that religion falls apart when you allow it to be anything other than sacred and untouchable. I found that religion insists for itself a special status as something you're not supposed to attack, all the while employing some of the most childish logic you'll see anywhere in an attempt to make itself look rational. I found that religion was all a big, dressed-up lie.

Three strikes, and religion was out.

Answer 9

Jesus never claimed to be the saviour - Nor he claimed to be the God.

Show me a single unequivocal statement in the Bible where Jesus christ Himself says that "I am God" or where He says "Worship Me" I swear, If you show me I will be the Christian same time....

Answer 10

Non Christians have their beliefs, and, Christians have theirs.

Each is entitled to their own beliefs.

You believe Jesus is your Saviour? Very Good. You are free to believe so.

It's not a question of being *held back*, but, a question of each one being entitled to their own beliefs, whatever the beliefs may be.

Answer 11

1. The inimitable smallness of the world view that Christians espouse.
2. The insistence of humanity as having a central role in creation.
3. The rah-rah jingo-ism of the religion's followers.
4. The violence of the God described in the Bible.

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