Why on earth would anyone not want to be saved and become a christian?

Question

It's apparent to me that alot of people aren't associated with God and believe he doesn't exist but be real wherelse could you have came from. If people only knew the half. Tell me what you think

Answer 1

I want to be a good christian. but I cant. I dont know why. Maybe trinity is stupidity. That is why. Who knows?

Answer 2

From the time I was nine years old till I was about twenty-two or so I had a difficult life. I was a sensitive child and thanks to a difficult teacher my life was difficult. It's only been about fifteen years or so that I felt something other of G*D than that I was his personal plaything. I felt so lost that if there was a G*D than why was I treated this way? Why was I emotionally, physically and socially abused? So I started to think about it and decided that either G*D was a lie to make people do what the bible says or I was his favorite toy and would purposely cause me pain. (This is really hard) It started to change when my Niece was born. She was my anchor. The one person that made me want to fight though everything I was going though then and before. That was also about the time when I met my (now)best friends. After a while I started thinking about it. This wonderful miracle! This amazing thing (person) that I was able to stick though everything I've went though to fight to live with everything. She would know me and I would know her. Three years later her brother was born and than ten and thirteen years later two more Nephews. They have changed my life and I have changed my views G*D. Not as a tormentor but as a teacher. I don't know if the right term is saved. I like to say enlightened may be even your word "associated". My life path has been a winding road of difficulties, even now occasionally. But what is life without it's ups and downs.
Now as for your question, I am Jewish! Are you going to sit there and tell me that I wasn't "saved", enlightened. That because I have not become a " Christian" I don't know G*D? That I don't believe in him? Because that sounds really one sided.
Look as far as I feel it doesn’t matter what religion you are or what you practice. It's that you believe! I think that G*D judges his children very much like our parents do, with a large helping of understanding.
Look I really hope that my posts and all the other posts open your eyes. Good luck in your life. Bye!!

Answer 3

I will give you the simplest answer I can about why I don't want to be saved and become a Christian. It is not in my heart, head or soul that being 'saved' in the way you are referring to is the one an only way and that it is something I need to do. Deep down I believe there is something 'out there' but at this point in time I do not feel that Christianity is the path for me. It's not that I'm against people who are Christian. I cannot be a Christian because it does not feel true in my heart. If I find God, it will be in my own way in my own time.

I won't go into other ideas of where people may have come from.

*Oooh. Maybe I wouldn't get 'thumbs down' if I lied to myself and others and walked into a church and got saved. Really nice.

Answer 4

I think that you're about 15 or 16 and you're presuming that people over twice your age haven't thought through these apparently deep thoughts you're having.

My choices are simple:

1. I can believe in an omnipresent, omnipotent God. If I do that, I must hold him responsible for every injustice he refuses to prevent. EVERY injustice, great and small.

2. I can believe there's nobody up there.

It would sadden me greatly to think there was a God who refused to intervene in some of the gross injustices I have seen on this Earth. I would hope anything that was as powerful as God is claimed to be would be as moral as God is claimed to want US to be. We have atrocities that happen everywhere, including in the church...God's own "house." Wouldn't you think a just and moral God would prevent children from being molested by priests, for instance?

Don't proceed from the logical absurdity that "we are here, therefore God created us." Humanity in all its finite glory came up with the concept of God to explain the infinite.

I can't disprove God to your satisfaction, and feel no need to. You can't prove God to my satisfaction, especially with circular logic.

Answer 5

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think salvation from damnation originated with Christianity, and other relligions that came after it borrowed the idea and changed the details to their liking. I know even pagans (i.e. Ancient Egyptians) had a concept of some type of afterlife, but it did not include salvation.

Bless U

Answer 6

Because Jesus is an extremist. He says there is no other way to God but Him. I think that's what bothers them. No choice but God's way. People like options. Others hate God. Maybe some other reasons as well. But, hey, there's only one Way. I chose it. They have no idea... how good God tastes.
Too bad for them. :((
=((

Answer 7

Why could we not have come from the Goddess? Jesus is not the onlly god.

I do understand your reason thoug since I am a former Christian preacher, but I left Christianity after 25 plus years. I am happier now.

The bible version of creation is not the only one.

Answer 8

Because all of the "Christians" I have met are self-serving and self-righteous, which doesn't seem very Christian to me. Just because you aren't given the label of "Christian", doesn't mean you aren't associated with God. Poeple can have their own personal relationship with God, you don't need to join a "group" with a title that has rituals to be one with God.

Answer 9

Again....

I am not here attempting to dissuade you from the rampant stupidity of your faith. I do not try to convince you with the facts that the Bible was not written by anyone except some rabid sheep farmers in the desert 300 years ago.

Why do you find it necessary to attempt to strangle the imagination of an entire population with this utter pack of imagination?

Answer 10

I don't believe in the non-existance of God, I only have confidence in it. If I believed it, there would be nothing that would convince me otherwise, not even if Jesus showed up tomorrow and made the rivers run red with wine.

Is there anything that could convince you otherwise?

Answer 11

The reason people were taught to believe in god is so they wouldn't kill steal hump there neighbors wife read the ten commandments is just a Guido for life .