why don't the unsaved want to be saved? this question is really for all the unsaved i have my own ideas of why they don't but i want to know from the horses mouth..
2007-09-21 08:05:35 · 15 answers · asked by revbill_ussery 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok let me make it more clear..what does the world have to offer the sinners that God cant provide. why does anyone that dont believe in God feel that way. I can give you a big list of what God does for me what does this world do for you...?
2007-09-21 08:18:42 · update #1
We need to be saved from Hell. That's what your getting at.
Ps. I am saved, I just wanted to make sure the lost knew that.
2007-09-21 08:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by ~Living4HIM~ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, this "unsaved" person according to you is so because I do not believe that it is true that Jesus is God. When God was revealed to me, it was not Jesus.
And since you believe you need to believe in Jesus (as God) to be saved, then that cannot happen. Sorry.
Also, I do not even believe I need to be saved because my Creator did not make any mistakes with us humans that required us to be saved from His wrath in the first place. We are EXACTLY where we are SUPPOSED to be in this space and time. We are a work in progress and we have ETERNITY to be perfected.
I do not believe the Christian explaination for why we are here on earth and where we go afterwards makes any sense or reflects anything just, almighty, and truly Divine about the Christian God. It seems more like a failed experiment in which the vast majority of human souls will be lost and your God knew this from the very beginning.
Kinda futile and cruel.
However, just because Christianity does not answer MY questions about life and does not bring me to God, it does not mean it cannot work for someone else. I believe everyone should be free to choose their spiritual path to God and life purpose. That includes my own kids. I expose them to all religions and beliefs so they have all the tools to guide their journey.
Best of luck to you.
2007-09-21 15:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing from which I need to be saved. I have my own definitions of right and wrong. The Bible is too strict, for it makes everyone a sinner. This is just to create guilt feelings. Then, the sucker who feels guilty pays some preacher to relieve that guilt. Well, I do not allow some priestly con man to make me feel guilty over nothing really. I was sent to church regularly when I was a boy, because my grandfather was a preacher. I began to doubt that the family religion was true when I was age 7. I was asked to join the church several times when I was an adolescent, but I refused to join. I did not accept the Bible as true. I saw too many contradictions and ignorance of science and reality in it.
2007-09-21 15:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saved from what? ...the wrath of your imaginary God? ...the same imaginary God who will purportedly save me from Himself? Personally, I want nothing to do with the most diabolically evil genocidal monster ever created by ancient mankind's vivid imagination. I am not "saved" because I have done nothing which requires I should be forgiven and I also know that Original Sin is an irrational theology invented by St. Augustine, about 390 AD.
I've been an atheist for over fifty years and I know with absolute certainty that the last thing I want is to spoil my intellectual intigrity by associating with Christians. Sorry, but I just don't hang out with liars, nor do I hang out with those who are so willfully ignorant that they allow themselves to be duped by liars. Get a genuine University education, then we'll discuss the true nature of objective (physical) reality. Solipsism and Idealism are giant turn-offs for people who've learned how to think for themselves.
2007-09-21 15:31:28 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The unsaved are not saved because they think they don't need to be saved in the first place.
2007-09-21 15:13:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was "saved" before I realized that there wasn't a god.
Essentially, there is no evidence that a god exists; the bible has no evidence that it can be taken as a factual book and it contains a number of massive contradictions and advocates things that I find morally wrong.
If god existed, I'm not sure that I would want anything to do with him.
2007-09-21 15:12:40 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because my religion, Judaism, doesn't have any such concept as needing to be "saved" except from persecution from Christians, Muslims, and others for a few thousand years. We don't have "Original Sin", we don't have hell, we don't have any of that. All of those are either Church misinterpretations of OUR scriptures (Original Sin) or pagan concepts (eternal hellfire) brought in from old religions like Zoroastrianism and inserted into the old testament in the christian bible -- where it does not exist in the original Torah which we still have and own.
That's why.
2007-09-21 15:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we were all born good, including you. Your religion has taught you that you are bad. Why? Because the primitive people who wrote the Bible lived at a time when an individual was judged by what class he or she was born into. If you were born into royalty, you were considered great. If you were a peasant or a slave, you were considered scum.
2007-09-21 15:16:27 · answer #8 · answered by Biggus Dickus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saved from what? I was saved from a spending spree last week. I almost maxed out my credit cards.
2007-09-21 15:09:29 · answer #9 · answered by Blue girl in a red state 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
saved from what? my life is fine without some wacko religion that makes no sense
2007-09-21 15:26:58 · answer #10 · answered by V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋