they know it is going to mean a big change in their life that they might not want to make?
2007-09-20 15:39:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are assuming that God invites everyone, and scripture just doesn't reflect this. I don't think it has anything to do with making big changes in one's life. It has much more to do with God's initiative in drawing his own unto Himself. Dead people don't have the capability to open their own eyes and walk in a new life. The Holy Spirit must give them that new life. Grace precedes faith, it does not follow it.
2007-09-20 21:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by ccrider 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honey, why can't Christians get it into their heads that many of us think the bible is bogus and everything in it is just a bunch of hocus pocus fairy tales to woo the allegiance of whomever will follow without question?
I don't believe in the bible! I've never seen a god in my entire life and NOBODY ELSE has seen a god personally either! THAT'S why some of us don't become (or remain) Christians!
Same goes for the Islamic religion. Stories written for the meek who wish to follow, from birth to death.
I forge my own trail where it takes me and make no apologies for it.
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2007-09-20 15:56:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big change would be living the same decent, compassionate life I lead now, but doing it because I'm afraid of eternal hellfire rather than it's because I feel it's right. Who needs a change like that?
2007-09-20 16:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the devil does a really good job of making sin really appealing to our senses, and it is hard for us to let go. He also paints an evil picture of God in our minds so we'll reject God. But by doing this he is actually assigning his own characteristics to God. In reality God is a loving God that is interested in every person's life. He is longing to be part of our life so we will experience life more abundantly, the way He first intended it to be. But often devil's chains are hard for us to brake.
2007-09-20 16:12:21 · answer #4 · answered by Vilaro 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it's simply because we do not believe that Jesus was who the Bible says he was. Show some evidence for any of these miracles he supposedly pulled off (the Bible is not evidence, by the way).
Honestly, I'd like to believe in a God like your's, but I'm not going to lie to myself.
2007-09-20 15:48:50 · answer #5 · answered by Redac 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not me.
Do you refuse Amen-Ra's invitation (through Horus) because it will be too big a change for you?
2007-09-20 15:46:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think that's a big part of it definately. we all struggle with it. but i just have to look at it this way- choose between those things that you don't want to give up now or Heaven. Heaven lasts forever and is sin free [drama free.]. These things are just sinly and temporary. Heaven is the ultimate choice.
2007-09-20 15:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by ihearttwirling 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think that they are blinded by Satan to but they do not seem to know according to the bible Satan believes and trembles at the name of Jesus. God Bless
2007-09-20 17:10:22 · answer #8 · answered by Ron 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is 100% correct. They love their sin and do not want to give it up. The deceitfullness of sin hardens the heart. The longer one continues to reject the Lord , the harder their heart becomes. Just like the children of Isreal hardened their hearts in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
2007-09-20 15:56:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Why do they "follow" christians around if they don't want to "hear"?
2007-09-20 19:01:14 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋