Usually, you would find me informing you of why you should embrace Christianity. But here I’m going to give you some reasons that not becoming a Christian can be advantageous.
1) You don’t need to commit to a particular belief. We all know how hard it is (as well as annoying) to have to commit to things. To pick up the groceries on the way home, agree to meet with someone at a particular time, to volunteer to help someone or some cause in a consistent repetitive manner. Psalm 37:5 tells the people of God that they are to commit (there’s that ugly word) their ways to the Lord.
2) You can trust in your own superior knowledge and understanding. After all, no one else knows as well as you what the “correct” opinion really is. God-followers are told in Proverbs 3:5 to trust in the Lord completely and not to depend on their own understanding of a situation. Besides, where would they get that direction? From the Bible? Isn’t that an antiquated book that has little relevance to today’s world?
3) You can get angry and hold a grudge and it’s perfectly reasonable. You have the right, right? Psalm 37:8 tells those of us that are Christians to avoid being angry and forget about getting even. That doesn’t seem like good psychology, does it? Your motto can be “Do unto others as you want to do to them.” (They have it coming anyway, right?)
4) You can fit in with the rest of society a lot better. They can tolerate you going to church a couple of times a year—especially if you have kids in the Christmas and Easter pageants. Otherwise, you would come across as a Christian-Nerd. And we certainly do not want to be considered “weird”. When we look at the Bible, it specifically tells Christians that they are a “peculiar” people, if we read First Peter 2:9.
5) You can have an extra day each week to do what you want to do—like playing golf, going shopping, catching up on business, shopping. Those 10 Commandments given to us in Exodus 20 really aren’t pertinent today, are they? We don’t have to “keep the Sabbath Day holy” and we can worship God just as well (if we want to) in nature, or the football field, or wherever. Certainly, that premise Christians tout of not neglecting getting together with other Christians to worship God is actually unnecessary as it admonishes in Hebrews 10:25.
6) You can be non-offensive to those of other religions. They have a right to believe what they want to. We don’t want to be narrow-minded (that would be perfectly awful) and insist that there is only one way to salvation. John the Apostle really didn’t know what he was talking about in chapter 14, verse 6 when he declared that the only way to come to God is through Jesus. That is being very narrow-minded!
7) There aren’t any worries about getting to “heaven”, whatever or wherever that may be. After all, isn’t it pleasant to think that since you’re basically a good person (and, of course, that’s according to your definition of “good”) at least most of the time, you’ll get rewarded. Once again John the Apostle must have been wrong in his book of First John 1:9 that what is necessary to get right with God is to plead guilty of our bad thoughts and actions and actually ask God to clean us up inside. Isn’t it much easier just to occasionally do nice things to earn our way to “heaven”?
8) You can just push aside any thoughts about that craziness of “the end of the world”. That’s just a sci-fi thing like Harry Potter or Spiderman. The whole Bible book of Revelation is just some crazy, mixed-up thing from some old man’s bad dream, even if he was John the Apostle who studied under Jesus.
9) But even if you sort’ a believe the Bible, you have all the time in the world. You’re young and healthy, right? This whole imperative to get ready that Christians speak about is the kind of thing that those weird people walking along the side of the road holding placards saying, “The end is near” goes along with. Surely, Jesus himself must have misspoken when he is quoted in Matthew 24 that no one knows when the end of the world will happen and that it will be like a “thief in the night”. It’s going to be a long time from now, and not as those Christian believers say might happen at any time.
10) You can focus on the important things of life like having fun and making lots of money. Those serious Christians have no fun at all. Getting drunk, watching porn, cheating in relationships, ignoring “less than desirable” people are fine for now. And isn’t making lots of money what we all want? When we read in Ephesians 2:10 that God actually made us for doing good works, is just a bit extreme thinking. And what an audacious thought that God planned for you to do those things! And even if we do all those “good things” it doesn’t make us right with Him, but because of His kindness that He accepts you as one of His own. That’s downright ridiculous! After all, you should get some points just for doing good things.
11) If you’re not a Believer, then you don’t have to waste your time reading the Bible each day. After all, there are more interesting things to read—like the back of a cereal box.
12) You can say you believe in evolution because the scientific “experts” say that’s the way thing happened. If you were a Christian you would have to believe that God created all things from nothing. It’s much easier to believe that there was some big explosion that took place, from substances (that came from where?) and then just “happened” to form living things. It is so very uncool to believe Genesis 1:1.
13) You don’t have to worry much about the Devil since he doesn’t worry about you. You’re already in his camp, so he’s not going to make trouble for you. He would rather you stayed comfortable right where you are. Aren’t we warned in John 16:33 that Christians will face persecution? And isn’t that going on all over the world right now? So, isn’t it safer to just to not become a Christian?
14) You don’t have to worry about God talking to you since you haven’t set up any way to communicate with him. If he does exist, why would he care to talk to you anyway? Hasn’t he got more important things to do like end war, deal with starvation, find ways to get rid of disease? (And who do those Christians think they are, that they are to be the ones doing this?)
15) You can reserve all your admiration and praise on whomever you wish, whether actors, sports stars, famous people, or even yourself. Christians once again show their narrow-minded by saying all praise and glory is towards God.
Well, there you have it—15 reasons to not become a Christian. Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be a Christian.
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