Why do people refuse to be Christian?

Question

If you read the Bible and pray about, it is promised that you will get a feelig that it is true.

I have done this myself and I have gained a testimony to the truth of the Bible and Jesus.

Now, it is true that I was raised as a Christian by my parents, but I have no doubt that even if my parents weren't Christian, I would still have converted because I have such a strong feeling inside of me that I can't imagine not being a Christian.

So, here's my question: Why do so many people turn away from Christianity? Why do they choose to ignore the feelings that they get that let them know this is the one true religion?

Surely other people have prayed and asked if this religion is true, yet not everyone has converted. Why?

Have they just closed their minds off to the truth? Why are people so arrogant to think they have all the answers. You are lost without Jesus in your life. It is the only way to go to heaven. Why won't they see the light?

Answer 1

Thats like religions of other faiths asking why Christians refuse to join them. These other religions are just like you, centric to their own religion...

Answer 2

I think all Christians are the ones that close their minds to the truth. None of you are open about learning new things. None of you can accept that god may not exist. There is absolutely no proof he ever existed or does. I believe the bible was made by a bunch of people on drugs. Christianity is a cult in my opinion. Many murders are driven by religion, that "god told them to do it". Christians are brain washed since the day they were born and never really learned any different, that makes VERY bad parenting. I think its ridiculous there is "bible" schools. Talk about wasting your life away. I would of killed my parents if they sent me some were like that. Religion was invented because it makes people feel better to THINK they are going to a "better" place after they die, guess what, once your dead... your dead! Sorry to break it to you, reality bites doesn't it?

Answer 3

the best way i can describe it is like this:

If you plant a seed in soil and it grows who is responsible for that growth? Not you, because you see you simply put that seed in earth and what happened afterward well that was God. God chose what seed would sprout and from where and when was the best time. It is like that also with the Word, try to think back to how many times in your life you were confronted with a "seed" it is and was entirely up to God when your eyes were opened. So it is with the rest of the world. The bible tells us that believers will be mocked and ridiculed (you may even have done some of that yourself prior to your rebirth I know I did) but when I became a Christian it was so strong a force I could almost not keep from shouting it out to the world (friends and family, husband and children included) I wondered how I evened functioned for so long without knowing the truth that had been so plainly put before me.

I remembered back to elementary school when God was trying to reach out to me even then. There was a boy in first grade that would walk around at recess and hand out pencils that said Jesus loves you. There was a million times that I was confronted by the Word yet I blindly walked rightt past too caught up with myself and this world. Then one day -- a day I believe was predestined -- it was like I walked righ into a wall. When I saw what a sinner I was and that God had sent ME a Savior it was time the "soil and water and sun" was ready to bring forth new life in me.

Somebody out there planted that seed ----- it just needed god to grow.

Answer 4

I did read and study the Bible since childhood. I used to be a Christian. The truth is relevant to what you choose to believe. If you believe in the Bible, I am truly happy for you.

However, I opted to break away from Christianity. I am happy as a Wiccan. I have learned to be a better man, husband and father.

I love peace, and accept people as they are. I don't try to change anyone. I don't try to convert anyone. I get along well with everyone, regardless of their personal beliefs.

Answer 5

There are so many religions based on love, tolerance, and respect for your fellow man that I could never become Christian. They pray for the world to end. They hate gays, liberals, and anyone who isn't Christian. They pray to a celibate Hanged God, a Gallows God, which is pretty much a symbol of death. One of their goals is global conquest. They are an evil death cult, so no thanks, I've got a real religon that isn't evil.
'Why are people so arrogent to think they have all the answers'. That's funny. Don't you believe in One True Faith? Don't you believe all religions are fake, except for yours? Don't you believe in Absolute Truth? I have great questions that are great for contemplating, but you seem to be the one with 'all the answers'. People with answers have stopped looking and take someone else's word for how things are. I explore the human spirit, and I really doubt you do. Who's full of presumption and assumed answers now?

Answer 6

People turn away because they lose the relationship of everyday with Jesus...You don't keep it up you loose that connection. It starts missing prayer and bible reading one day, then two....finally it's a habit. And they either think they are too far gone or they just don't care.

It takes a step of faith to believe and some people aren't willing to take a step for something they can't physically see or touch.

We just need to keep spreading the word and pray the scales fall from their eyes.

Answer 7

Ah, but I have read the Bible, and I've spent time in the church, and in the end although I will agree there is truth to be found in the bible, to close ones mind to the possibilities presented through all other spiritual paths seems more arrogant and intolerant than to close ones mind to one possible spiritual path.
I'll draw an analogy: When you look at a photo or painting, do you look at each individual brush-stroke, or pixel or dot of colour, or do you step back and look at the entire picture in order to understand it?

Answer 8

You are the arrogant one, bud. I am not a Christian because I have no wish to belong to a soul-sucking cult of twirly-eyed true believers. What a shock you'll get when you grow up and realize that the world doesn't revolve around your beliefs. You do not have an exclusive claim on truth.

Answer 9

I was also raised christian -- roman catholic, to be precise. I haven't believed since I was quite young, and I've never had any feelings to the contrary. Reading the bible makes my stomach turn. Hell, with all of my faults I'm still a much better person than the megalomaniac psychopath god of the bible.

Answer 10

I'm not a Christian because of all those annoying, ignorant christians out there telling me "Oh, you're not christian. You're going to hell, so come pray with us." I'm not saying all christians are like that. Just all the ones that push it too far. And I've also found some serious flaws in Christianity.

Answer 11

Because some of us do NOT have the feeling that Christianity is the "one true religion".

In fact, for some of us, the more we look at Christianity, the less sense it makes.

Let me ask you a question: are you, yourself, so arrogant that you are willing to say that my religion, Wicca, is utterly false? That YOU have all the answers? If so, then pot, meet kettle, and kettle, meet pot.