If being saved is as simple as not rejecting the love and sacrifice of Christ, Why do you reject?

Answer 1

Yes, why do you reject? Life is a lot better when you receive Christ. Better but not easier.

Answer 2

Being saved is hardly 'simple'! First, we have to realise we need to be saved. Billions of people have no idea that their sin is so great that no amount of good they try to do will 'tip the scales' of divine justice in their favor. They think they can work hard to please God and that they'll get to heaven that way. Or they believe in reincarnation and hope for a better chance next time round.

Being saved is not a negative ('not rejecting the love and sacrifice of Christ'.) If all people had to do was not reject it, they'd verbally agree and think that was it. Not so. Being saved requires us to admit we are sinners, and that only what Christ did at Calvary can save us. Many people are just too proud to admit they need help; they prefer to accuse God, or others. That's why the gospel dare not consist solely of God's love; the bad news of our sin and our pride has to come first before we can realise just how good the good news is!

Answer 3

Dear Lover of God,

You pose a thoughtful and intelligent question: "If being saved is as simple as not rejecting the love and sacrifice of Christ, Why do you reject?"

Before answering, I would like to ask you a favor. Please be completely honest with yourself. I'm serious here. What thoughts come to mind when you hear someone is a Scientologist, Hindu, Jew or a different Christian sect? (WAIT A MINUTE BEFORE PROCEEDING…… okay now continue.)



You might even tend to agree with minister Jerry Falwell:

"I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation."

You must admit, he might have a point. All the thousands of different religions and gods can't ALL be right? I mean some of them must sound a little silly to you I imagine? Remember the choice is not between Christianity and Atheism as your question implied, but the between all the religions of mankind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gods

"Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.*" Am I right or am I right? Now that I've made you chuckle and you've maybe thought about why you reject the love and sacrifice of all other religion's gods, tell me how you would answer your own question, but replace Christ with any of the world's 3,000 catalogued deities**

Mark Twain mused: "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

If all else fails, ponder the great poet Homer who espoused: "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.” (Homer Simpson)

How’d I do?

Answer 4

If being saved is as simple as burning incense at the Shinto family shrine once a week, why do you reject it?

If being saved is as simple as saying a line three times and bowing in the direction of Mecca daily, why do you reject it?

If...

Or maybe, if there is no god, why are you wasting your time.

You are not saved because you were never lost.

Answer 5

i'm ignoring the extra info as you seam extremely offended and that i'm particular your concerns are not directed at me. My buddy is a Jehovah Witness (i'm no longer) and he or she defined to me sometime approximately her faith. It helped lots because of the fact before I had, from television shows that portrayed the religion in a foul easy, theory that they have got been strategies washed. She defined the religion, why she observed it. She became continuously waiting to answer my calm questions with a calm reaction. We have been waiting to be friends for 2 years after she defined to me why and that i'm particular we nonetheless could be if i did no longer circulate. What i'm attempting to declare to the those that have decide (which they seam to have completed out of your advert) is so you might not decide a faith before you have been in it or have been close friends with somebody that believes in it. besides no longer all Jehovah Witness are the comparable, there could be someplace in a roundabout way someone that's strategies washing human beings below the fake pretense of religion, it happens for all time with all religions (ever seen the action picture Jesus Camp?).

Answer 6

Because there is more to it than that. It ends up being a contest of who is more faithful and read the most books in the "Left Behind" series.

Answer 7

There is no evidence. I reject the other 2,000 gods.

It's not a compelling reason to believe in Zeus, either.

Answer 8

I used to think like this .But of late i have come to realise that there is more to it than that. I am having doubts that the bible is my fathers words at all because there is a lot of horrible things in there! But i will continue to love him in my own ways.

Answer 9

What if your belief/faith is based on misinterpretations of books that were inspired by an unholy spirit? Ever consider that possibility? I am at least equally sure that you are wrong as you are that you are right. We can't both be right.

Answer 10

The key word is "if", although I've never quite worked out what "being saved" means.