Christians: Dont you think I would believe if I COULD?

Question

I personally like the message of Christ, I wish it was true. Why cant I bring myself to believe such nonsense?

Answer 1

Sounds like it's your problem.

Answer 2

Sounds like you might be trying to get the cart before the horse. When I read through the scriptures, I never see God making an appeal for people to give him their "heads". I see him asking for their "hearts".

Like you, I struggled with some of the logics of the faith. The miracles made no sense. I had heard too many people twist and distort parts of the scriptures to where it was very difficult to believe them. Believing in God seemed ridiculous and illogical. And I am the kind who never does anything illogical...

But I meet a person who simply demonstrated for me a childlike faith in God. It was that, not logics, that made it through my head to my heart.

I began with a simple decision to believe that God existed, and look for Him, his leadings, and his love. Once I did, I began to see it. The longer I looked, the plainer it became. Until there came a time when I took "the plunge", and made a full surrender of myself to his will.

Over the decades that have followed, I have come to know him well enough that I can understand what he is saying in "the book". I see that the miracles are possible. I have seen too many in life to have any doubt about them. I can now see his hand and his love in every area of my life. It is like night and day.

I have not given up my "logics". I hold several college degrees, and work in the area of computer technology and research. My mind and logics are some of the strongest gifts God has given me. And I use and develop them daily.

But I realized that knowing Him does not begin in the head. It begins in the heart. I will be praying for you today that you do take the first "heart" step towards him. It is a journey that you will never regret.

Answer 3

The problem you face is the same that many of us faced. Why Christianity insists on belief in a whole range of things which have nothing to do with the message of Christ. I try to live the message without the supernatural aspects. I fear that many Christians have gotten so caught up in the supernatural aspects that they have forgotten the message.

Answer 4

You are an odd creature. However hard I try, as a rational being, I cannot bring myself to 'personally like' any kind of nonsense.

Maybe if you didn't like nonsense you would be able to believe sense.

Faith has to be rational: if all you can see is nonsense you will never properly engage with Christianity much less believe.

Answer 5

You can and you do believe or you wouldn't be here. There is some requirements to follow Jesus. We all know this. Are you willing to stop sinning?
Jesus is a historical fact. What he was/is/will be is the question.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Answer 6

Who dares to believe and have hope in such good news?

Answer 7

I don't think they (xtians) understand that concept. They are deluded my the free will myth.

Everyone does what they must do. Atheists must be atheists because they are not convinced of any reality to any theology. The evidence is lacking for any atheist to believe. There is not a single atheist that is convinced of a god's existence but still says he does not believe... that would be impossible.

So, xtians ought to be smart enough to realize that if it we could, we would believe their theology, it's just that it is unbelievable to us.

They ought to also realize that if their god does exist he'd be smart enough to know why it is that we don't believe in him. (He did a poor job of supplying us with reason to believe.)

Answer 8

Don't you think it's hilarious when there are avatars for Christians geared to the angry face?

And my answer to you is that you can't push yourself to believe in crap.

Honestly, I really admire a lot of what Jesus had to say. That said, I don't admire the fact that he died horribly on a cross. The fact that Christians worship a suffering man/god tells you an awful lot about what they believe the purpose of life to truly be. I can't reconcile myself with that type of outlook. It's for that reason that I don't believe it even though I was raised with it and even though I maintain my capacity for faith.

All the best,

Lazarus

Answer 9

It takes faith.
The things of God cannot be reasoned out using man's logic. It is truly impossible. If you do not believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then you will never see it as a logical or rational place from which to draw conclusions. I can understand that. The only way to believe unto salvation is by faith. If the things of God could be explained by man's logic, they would cease to be divine.
Not trying to put you down at all, I respect your choice. K?

Answer 10

Do you think I am actually concerned what you believe in?
This seems to be your problem. You see Christians as wanting to push you to their belief system. Smart Christians realize that no one should be pushed to believe anything, because in the end you can't fake something like faith and false faith is worse than no faith at all. So really, I am not concerned with your belief system whatsoever. So your problem really appears to be self-centeredness.

Answer 11

Which message?

“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matthew 8:18–22)?

the story of Jesus calling a Canaanite woman a dog. She cries out to Him to deliver her daughter of demonic possession. “Jesus did not answer a word,” says Matthew (15:23). The Great lover ignores her cries. The woman doesn’t let up, and finally, Jesus’ disciples beg Him to do something to shut her up. “Send her away,” they plead. “She keeps crying after us.” Jesus will have none of it. Why? Because the woman isn’t a Jew. “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Even when the woman forces her way to Jesus, kneels at His feet, and cries, “Lord, help me!” Jesus is unmoved. “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs,” He says.