I really want to know...?

Question

What is the REAL reason that people Do not believe in God? OR if you do believe there is a God, what is the reason you do not believe He is the God of the Bible and that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world? I am really curious to know the REAL reason.. and I am not going to comment- I am just going to read it. I feel like a lot of people on here just dont like christians- so they dont want to believe. But please tell me the REAL reason. Have I said the word "real" enough? LOL

Answer 1

Satan has blinded the mind of those that believe not.
They are ignorant of God and his ways and want to debate and bring in strife, which is strictly forbidden!
I just go over all those questions and pass them up
Unless I think they are legitimate.
Some are looking for truth, you have to weed them out
It is not that they are against us, it's the God that is in us.
They curse and slander God and his word.
They are deceived and go about trying to deceive others
They know not the truth and don't want to know the truth
If they did they would say so , and not just go after you to
bring an argument.
Your sister in Christ Jesus our Lord and soon coming King

Answer 2

I may be jumping into the lion's pit by answering this question, but you're curiosity seems genuine. I am not a christian, I am a gnostic (NOT agnostic), and I do whole-heartedly believe in God. The bible was written by man (I have read the bible several times), has been editted, embellished, and rewritten a number of times. Therefore cannot be relied upon for it's accuracy, however the message mostly is still that of a good one. Jesus/yuz asaf/san issa was a great man and one of the greatest prophets the world has seen. In the ninth century, the church hierarchy took a vote on whether to make jesus divine or not; Divinity won only by a couple of votes.
One reason that people do not like the christian church is because of the widespread hipocrisy. Also, some people do not like being told what to believe and that there is only one way that things are. Perhaps they would rather do their own research and find the truth that resonates in their soul.
Organized religion tells you not to ask question, just follow and believe. That work for some and not for others.
Maybe some people do not believe in God, because they associate the concept with persecution and inconsistencies.
You and I both know that whether a person believes in God or not, God will still love him the same as he would a devout follower.

Answer 3

Because of all the changes made to the bible. The bible is a copy of the Torah and has 27 major changes and thousand of minor changes. These changes were made in an effort to manipulate the uneducated masses. Also to convert the pagans to their religion. Most all your holidays are originally pagan. A couple of the changes are 1. Then addition of Satan added in the 2nd century AD and 2. Changing reincarnation to Resurrection at the second counsel of Constantinople in 536 AD...Historical Facts I could add more like the facts about the burning times or the millions of people killed in the name of the Christian god but that would be over kill. The lies made by the supposed leaders of Christian and Catholic churches are no longer believed because the masses are no longer uneducated.

Answer 4

Honestly, it doesn't make much sense to me. The bible to me is just as much mythology as paganism, ancient roman and greek religions, and Norse mythology. Some religions strike me much more ridiculous than others, like scientology and mormonism. However, the thing that i like about all religions is that they teach how people should get along, and basically ethics and morals. I don't like how some, or actually all religions, treat women differently than men. And of course, the worst thing about religion, is the war that it causes. I believe more in the concept that the Earth and the sun is about 4 billion years old, and that evolution is responsible for human beings on the planet, which has basically been proven over and over again btw. I don't think that god created the world in seven days, that all humans decend from Adam and Eve, or any other miracles that are written in the Bible. I think they are exagerations and stories that have changed over time. The bible is over 2000 years old. I don't believe in a God the way you do; to me it is much more of a figurative concept. Something that is inherently unknown and a "higher-being" than a human being. We will never know the mysteries of the universe (at least in our life-times), or the definitive answer to "why am I here?", and I don't resort to believing in a God and a religion because of that. To me, the point of being alive and on this planet is to figure it out, and to enjoy yourself along the journey that is your life because you only get one. Am I keepin in real? lol. I wouldn't say that I don't believe in christianity because I don't like christians; it is literally because it is unbelievable to me. Jesus could be our Savior just as much as Allah or Buddah or Zeus is the real God. But even more probable than that, is that there is no God, and that you get to be your own "God" and creator of your own life, in a sense.

Answer 5

The bible has been mistranslated repeatedly, so that at this time it contradicts itself numerous times.

MILLIONS of lives have been taken in God's name. Terrible atrocities occur around the world.

Some people have the same, compelling feelings of attraction for the same sex as I do for the opposite sex, and we are supposed to tell them that those feelings are wrong.

We are asked to take God's existence on faith, even though he no longer manifests himself physically here when hundreds of people in the bible got got to witness hard evidence of his existence first hand. At then end of the day, we are both judged for our beliefs and either damned or admitted into heaven, but those people had PROOF upon which to base their beliefs, and all I have is an ancient, mistranslated manuscript.

We are given compelling evidence of the age of our planet, and the existence of the dinosaurs millions of years ago, and then told that if we do not ignore this evidence we are sinning.

I could cite a hundred more examples.
Any god worthy of my worship would not ask, nor impose such things upon his followers.

Answer 6

For me, it was a fairly drawn-out process. I call it my evolution from being a person of faith to being a person of reason. I think the beginning of disbelief for me was the realization that the God of the Bible was not consistently moral. He was ruthless, bloodthirsty, and extremely intolerant, something completely opposite to what the church was saying he was and what I wanted to stand for. As I educated myself about the history of Christianity and the other religions of the world and learned more about the scientific method, philosophy, and ethics, I realized that answers that once had satisfied me seemed childish and empty. There were lots of other things--the closed-mindedness and unfairness of many believers; the examples of men like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Jefferson, who did not believe that questioning was a sin,--but no single great trauma "scared me away from religion" or caused me to suddenly "lose my faith." I just grew up. I know that will sound insulting to some, but that's how I view it. The final part of my transformation came slowly because I was very fond of the friends I'd made who were religious and didn't want to lose their friendship, but mostly because I wanted to live a moral life. As is the case with many people, I grew up thinking morality was synonymous with religion. I held on to my religious trappings because I wanted to be moral. Life experiences and studying philosophy eventually revealed to me that morality is not synonymous with religion. Once I found that one can live a very moral, useful, and fulfilling life without slavishly believing unbelievable things, I was free.

Answer 7

The real reason is that I do not believe. There is no proof, and there is no reason to believe. You tell me the real reason you believe, and don't say it is because the Bible says so. I think it is because you can't find a reason to live without believing in God. Well I can find a reason to live without needing to believe in God. Why should I believe?

Answer 8

What scientific proof do you have that says there is a god? Have you seen and talked with him or her? What you know of god is what you have been told to by people who read interpretations of writings interpreting even more writings, and so on. Actually, no one can prove to you that the interpretations of those writings are the CORRECT interpretations of the original writers. Which brings me to the point that some people started a belief from here says and justified by believing what they wanted to believe.

Answer 9

I think for one thing that a lot of people think that God and Christians are one in the same. They judge God by what they see people who say they believe in God doing.

Answer 10

I believe religion is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind. I believe the bible was written by a bunch of wine-swigging women-hating men that today would be dinosaurs because of their beliefs. I believe that Jesus was a regular guy that had great charisma and loved helping people and his kindness led to legendary status and grew to mythical proportions and the rest as they say, is history. Facts of life: Be confident and honest. Live to be a good parent, a good spouse, a good neighbor and friend. Treat others well and go out of your way to be helpful. That is the only real faith you need!