For non-believers: What is holding you back?

Question

You have nothing to lose in accepting Jesus Christ as our savior.
What if there is an after-life? Wouldn't you want to be in heaven?

Answer 1

NOTHING BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD......

Answer 2

Nothing is holding me back. There WAS something holding me back some many years ago and it is called religion. I found out the truth when I was about 12 yo and made the leap into freedom at about 15 yo. Note the word 'freedom'.
Anyone over 12 yo who hasn't realised that the whole god thing is a scam perpetrated some time back in history, with the express purpose of controlling the population, needs to reassess their ability to apply reason and logic.
In answer to your 'What if there IS an afterlife?' I respond with 'What if there isn't?'
If you think that YOU are going to an imaginary place called heaven, you are in for a huge disappointment but you won't know about it because you will be dead and rotting away, totally oblivious to the folly of your ways. Shame, really that you will have wasted so much of your time on a false god (a man-made invention) but there is an upside ... your crazy notion is evidently helping you to cope with your fears by relying on a pretend parent-figure to look after you. Then again, it could be that you ARE 11 yo? Time yet to repent and get your head around reality.

Answer 3

Let's talk about Jesus' literature father for a moment. The one proof I would like to see is an omnipotent god. The Christian God may be omniscience, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence. But an omnipotent god that could not stop 19 terrorists, Adolf Hitler, Henry Kissinger, Harry Truman, 1 tsunami or 2 hurricanes, is rendered useless in my book.

Answer 4

There is no evidence that suggests we are all ruled by a higher power. I love Jesus, but i don't know for sure if he is real. I can't see him or hear him. I do accept him as my savior, but he won't return my calls. If there is an after life, i will be in hell with all my friends and a bunch of cool bands. I would like to be in heaven, but ACDC won't be there, so it really wouldn't be heaven for me.

Answer 5

As a non-believer in Jesus as Messiah and Only Begotten Son (and as a believer in a great many other things), I have everything to lose in accepting Jesus Christ as my savior.

1.) I lose my intellectual honesty.

By somehow coming to a conclusion that has no basis in my own experience and has no place in my worldview, I would simply have to reach out of nowhere to formulate and affirm this belief. It would mean denying many beliefs that I have come to over time and with a great deal of thought.

2.) I would lose my soul.

I could repeat "I believe in Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I look at my life, I know I'm inherently flawed and imperfect, and I need the love and compassion of the One who died and was resurrected for me in my life. I'll never be able to live up to God, to His commandments, and I need Jesus to wash me clean. Come, Lord Jesus, please come into my life," from now until my final breath and it would be a lie. Living as a Christian and trying to believe as one would be a lie.

If those two points don't do it for you, and you'd still like me to sing "Praise Jesus" with you in spite of my lack of Christian belief (a simulated Christianity, so to speak), I come to my final point.

3.) I refuse to belittle God by imagining Him/Her/It/That/my Best Friend as someone demanding an economic exchange to result in my wellbeing when the veil on this life goes up (or even before it). Because I can't affirm any of the central tenets of Christian theology of Godhead or Salvation, my profession of Christianity would be a cynically selling out. In effect, I would be trading my verbal affirmation and personal liberty for the hope that it would get me into heaven. I cling to the viewpoint that a person ought to do nothing for the sake of heaven or the fear of hell, but rather because it's simply right and honest. I'm certainly not going to perpetrate a massive self-delusion just on the chance that traditional Christianity might be right about a few things.

In any case, please note that I kept this answer as dealing with myself. When I speak of a self-delusion, I speak of dishonest belief and the manifestation of it. If you have honest faith in Christ, then by all means maintain it.

Answer 6

I have nothing to lose by not accepting Jesus, cause he is supposed to accept me ANYWAYS! Then I don`t have to do all the bullshit going to church and put chains on how I live my life....

It`s a win win situation.

Answer 7

I'm not being held back. I'm living my life the only way that makes sense for me.

If there is an afterlife, I'm going to have to gamble that God isn't so arbitrary as to punish me for not being able to believe something that didn't make sense to me.

Answer 8

A quickie Pascals Wager!

We get this multiple times a day on here in various forms. Anyone wanna take this? Anyone?

Ok, here it is on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

Please read the 8 refutations of the wager. Plus, refutation #2 quotes Homer Simpson! Hard to beat that!

Answer 9

Nothing to lose except control of my very thoughts and therefore, my life. No thank you.

Answer 10

we are back to pascals wager again is this the only thing you christians have got stop wasting your time bringing out time and time again we are not bying the bet

Answer 11

the same could be said for believers...what's holding you back, because too many believers aren't willing to make the sacrifices, if you want to call them that, that they should to be saved too.