Question for those who reject Jesus?

Question

I'd like to ask my many friends who are non-believers/Agnostic/Atheist.. or any other that reject Jesus and his claims/offers.

My question is why do you reject him?

Please focus just on his message...NOT Christian people. So I'm asking for the "Jesus" reason's not the "Church" or "Christian People" etc...just Jesus!

Maybe what he said, maybe you believe he never existed, etc...that's what I'm looking for.

Thanks to all that take the time to give a serious answer!

Answer 1

Oh, I'm sure he existed. I just don't buy the whole 'son of God' thing.

Answer 2

I will give you a serious answer.

It is a lot of reasons, but the main reason is that there has never been a time where I have found any solid evidence for me to base any theologic beliefs. I need something to work with. I need evidence. Science has simply presented a better case.

Christians have given me various methods on which I can allow the love of their Lord to enter into my heart. I have followed their advice, to no avail. If Jesus speaks to me someday like he has to all of you, so be it...but until then, I got nothin.

No messages, no enlightenment, nothing to work with. I am not the type of person who will just believe in something just because other people encourage me to.

It's not about a belief with me, it is more of a lack of belief. It has nothing to do with Jesus or God -- anyone who follows the 10 commandments has probably got a generally good moral foundation, and I respect that.

So it's not about rejection -- I feel that the approach has not been made, and I am not inclined to go searching for something that I don't need anyway.

I hope that made sense!

Answer 3

If I may leave some thoughts to ponder. Jesus was considered perfect and many were raised to have low self esteem and a serious lack of confidence by their own parents, sibling or guardians. Difficult to believe in perfection unless it's perfectly miserable. Jesus set quite the pace/example. If people were to believe in him, believe him or follow him that would mean they would be doing the same things he did and most people have a hard time even saying hello to a neighbor, little lone a stranger. It's too difficult for people to truly follow. So easy to reject.

Answer 4

At this point, it's kind of silly to deny that a man, Jesus existed. He was no doubt a great man in his community and a great teacher. He believed that people deserved to be treated with respect and dignity.

But, we are all children of the Universe. Weather you believe in god or not. I doubt he would have been pleased to have been deified the way he has been. That just doesn't seem like the kind of person who could have gathered such an immense and loyal following.

It's not Jesus I would reject, just the dogma built around him.

Answer 5

Jesus, whether completely fictional or an exaggerated personality, is mostly a charachter of the bible. I have never felt, heard, or seen him. I am not about to believe thengs just becasue the minister or bible claims it to be true. It is like believing in Santa Claus as far as I'm concerned. Open my heart you say? What is that supposed to mean? Am I to put myself into a state where I am more vulnerable to suggestion? Nah, I think I am safe from god's evil for now.

Answer 6

I used to believe in Jesus the Christian way and now I still believe in him just as a Muslim

The reason I rejected him while i was christian is because of the trinity

Answer 7

Sounds like you think there's only two courses of action. Acceptance and rejection.

I admire the message of Christ. I think the magical part of the story is pretty much all made up after the fact.

But Christ's teachings? From what I can make of them through the filters of the various apostles, I think Christ was a precourser of modern, rational man. After all, he rejected the Pharisees, who were literal interpretors of the old testament. He suggested that the rule of life could be determined by asking yourself how you would want others to treat you, then treating them the same way. That's a better approach to creating righteous behaviour than damning and killing first sons and making impossible lists of rules. It teaches us to think of ourselves as part of society; it tells us a real reason to be good.

So I accept all that part of Christ. I just don't happen to buy into the magical part of the story.

Now I wonder, can you accept that others may find good in the message of Christ, but find questionable the Religious Establishment that has grown up around the mythological aspects of the tale?

Am I damned because I don't believe in the magic, or saved because I wish to treat others kindly?

Actually your answer to that doesn't really matter... it was a rhetorical question.

As was yours.

Answer 8

I don't believe any human being is divine. I do believe in genetics, I know it takes 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent to make a human being. I believe he walked the earth, I believe he was a spiritual person but I do not believe he was divine nor the son of a deity.

Answer 9

I just don't believe the story of the bible is accurate or even true chances are its just a really messed up novel.
some dude named jesus could have been around trying to start a cult I dont know and I don't care but Im not going to pray to some guy who in my eyes was just a normal human if he exhisted.

Answer 10

I don't reject Jesus. I just don't believe that he is the son of god or died for our sins or any of that. I don't believe in original sin or eternal damnation either. Why do you reject the ideas of karma and reincarnation?

Answer 11

I reject worshiping him as God. I follow a lot of his teaching because he was a Spiritual Master but I don’t follow the crap others wrote about him and I don’t worship him.