Can 10,000,000,000 Christians be wrong?

Question

Sometimes I think of that when I consider my faith, or when I experience doubt.

Billions and billions of people believe in Jesus Christ - people smarter than me, more educated than me, people who have been through much tougher times, wars, famine, upheaval... and still they believe!

Who am I to doubt?

Do you ever think this way?

Of course, I am talking about all the Christians who have ever lived - not just those living.

Answer 1

The responders are suggesting that 10M, 5M..whatever number you attribute to Christians...believe without results. Like we are just walking in some self induced fog. Please.

The addendum to this question is...how can you doubt a belief that has the exact same transforming results on 10M, 5M...people across every cross section of society, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, class, or education.

If it were phony...what is the likelihood that the results (transformation amongst believers) would be so undeniably consistent? and how could any literature...crafted by mere men, be so well drafted as to fool millions AND yet still be unshakeable in being disproved?

God is real. The Bible is His inspired Word and those who dont believe are in denial.

Answer 2

Based on the numbers, can all these adherents be wrong?

(Here's the number of believers in the various religions. There are approximately 6.6 billion people on the earth, so the idea that there are 10 billion Christians is a 500% exaggeration .)

Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.5 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
primal-indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand

Numbers provide no comfort. The majority of voters cast their votes for George Bush AND Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

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Answer 3

Ten billion? I don't know where you get that number.

If you're going to play with numbers: currently about 2/3 of the world is not Christian, and there was some point in time when the majority of people on earth believed the earth was flat.

The bottom line is that no, the popularity of an idea doesn't make that idea right. Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" is the biggest selling song of all time. I rest my case.

Answer 4

Of course, there was a time when people believed that nobody could survive on the opposite side of the earth (like the founders of Christianity thought might I add), that the earth was only a few thousand years old, that the sun revolved around the earth, that space was completely filled with an either because it could not possibly be vacuum, etc., etc., etc.

Answer 5

You are human which will cause you to doubt. People of all religions at some point even for a second doubt everything they believe in. i am 16 and For as long as i could remeber i didnt really care about God. I thought he existed but who cared? Then this summer i relized hes the reason i am alive and if it wasnt for him i wouldnt have made it through cerrtain things. SO yes i,along with many many many others, people do think the same way.

Answer 6

I dont know where you get your numbers, but there are only an estimated 2 billion Christians worldwide. There are just under 6 billion people living today. That means just under 4 billion people are not Christian, or twice as many people are not Christian compared to those that are.

So what is your new religion going to be?

Answer 7

Yes. 10,000,000,000 Christians can be wrong.
Numbers don't matter. Millions of people used to think that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around the earth, does that make them right just because so many people believed it?

Source: Common Sense

Answer 8

Sure, but then millions of people also used to believe the Earth was flat. They used to believe that putting leeches on your skin was a good way to cure the plague. Belief, not matter how popular or widespread, does not equal fact. It's not proof, not matter how much you want it to be. If you're right, and God is real, more power to you and enjoy the afterlife while I burn in hell. But in the meantime, stop trying to prove you're right just because you have more people on your side.

Answer 9

That is a very big number you come up with. I do not know how many true real Christians have lived and died but what I do know is that more follow the way of this world as the bible says narrow is the road that leads to heaven but broad is the road that leads to hell.

I do not look at it that way but look at what the bible teaches me and learn from it as my Salvation comes from Jesus Christ who died , rose and is coming back for me

Answer 10

You are suggesting that all of those Christians all believe the same thing, when the approx 30,000 denominations today prove they don't. Catholics don't believe anyone else is "Christian" except them. A lot of other Christians don't believe the Catholics, JW's or Mormons are Christians. Yes, as Christians have proven themselves, they all can be wrong.