Does the average Christian realize that almost 7 out of every 10?

Question

people in the world today are not Christians, and do not accept Jesus as their savior?

There are 6.5 billion people in the world today, and only 2.1 billion Christians.

Answer 1

Ha, I doubt it.
You see christians posting here all the time that "christianity is the biggest religion in the world" -- as an attempt to "prove" the correctness of their religion, saying that the biggest has to be right. That's obviously flawed logic, but it's also disingenuous...
Although "all christians" make up the biggest *religious* population in the world, that number does indeed include ALL christians -- all the various sects and denominations, including some of the really-out-there ones. Mormons, for example, have almost nothing in common with Catholics, yet they all get lumped together as "christians." Hardly one unified group, huh? :)

Oh, and "luvwinz" -- there is no 22 to 1 christian to atheist ratio. The "irreligious" group (which includes atheists and agnostics...hey, if you can group all christians together, I can group all non-believers) is about 1.1 billion -- just over half of the 2.1 billion christians. Not even 2 to 1, let alone 22 to 1. Typical christian, doesn't know facts...:(

Answer 2

There are 6 billion people and 2 billion of them are Christian. There are 1 billion Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, Wiccan... The rest are some other religion.

Answer 3

Even if they get that what most of them don't get is that their religious "choice" is (for the overwhelming majority) simply the default choice. They "choose" to be Christians because that's what was offered up first and most often. One analogy is being a sports fan. The person who thinks of himself as a "Buckeye" didn't choose to be a Buckeye because they did an extensive study of the other teams and found the Buckeyes had an underlying philosophy that was inherently superior to all other teams. They "chose" to be a Buckeye because by an accident of birth they were born in or near Columbus, Ohio and that's (primarily) what was offered. That's what the TV stations talked about. That's what the newspapers wrote about. That's what kids at school were talking about. That's whose jerseys were being sold in local stores. etc. etc. etc.

But once you accept your membership in the group then you have to defend that ("were the best", etc.) and you have to claim superiority over other groups.

It's not about deciding, it's simply that the groups exist and most people will choose to latch on to the first group that will allow them in and stay there, because they fear being in no group at all.

Answer 4

Do atheists realize that 9 out of 10 people around the world do consider themselves a part of an organized religion? Christians alone outnumber atheists 22 to 1.

www.adherents.com

Answer 5

That's why I follow Jesus' command at Matthew 28:19, 20:
"Go therefore, and make disciples of peoples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you."

Answer 6

Yes we do, and it is supposed to burden us to prayer for them. But since when does even a majority's belief dictate that to be truth? 70% of the world can deny Christ, but that does not make Him any less real and any less powerful to save those who do believe in Him.

Answer 7

Do you realize that just because someone says they are a 'Christian' does not mean that in God's eyes they presently are a 'Christian'?

Answer 8

Hello =)

I never know what that means...."Accepting Jesus as your saviour"....... My late wife's father used to grill me on that issue every time we met. I never knew what to answer him with.......

I am not a Christian, mind you, but I believe that Christ existed....I believe that he nearly died on the Cross, was put in a tomb, regained consciousness, and walked the earth for a while longer.

I believe that HE believed he had died and came back to life. I believe that HE believed his suffering to be for the sins of mankind.....

So...how does one answer that.... Does believing that he existed qualify as "acceptance"??

I also get confused on the "personal saviour" business....

When I was a child, back in the 60's, and evangelists would come up on our front porch and ask me if me and my family accepted Christ as our "personal saviours"....I was really confused... "Personal"?? as in Christ went through all of that just for me, and no one else?? Well...that didn't seem logical....how could Christ be the "personal" saviour of more than one person...the qualifier "personal" excludes that possibility....so usually, I would yell for my Grandmother, who would offer them coffee and cake, and then ask them politely not to discuss religion with her grandson ever again....We were Lutherans, in those days, and the whole idea of a "personal saviour" was rather insulting to us, as it is to Lutherans and Catholics to this very day.

Now, I'm a Buddhist, and accept Christ as a Buddhist Saint, or Bodhisattva, the same as I accept Mother Theresa as a Bodhisattva. But salvation cannot come from anyone else but myself, of course.....Not even Lord Buddha, as he often reminded us.

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 9

I think the average person worries about themselves and how they want to live their live. If it is love, kindness, peace and forgivness. I don't think that they should worry about what everyone else is doing or believing. Faith is something you figure out on your own. Your little question does not do anything for me.

Answer 10

Sounds like a lot of people are going to actually die in the future. I don't think the amount of people actually saved is in the bible as far as numbers