A group of Christians were setting around after Bible Study. “I just don’t understand why people do not come to Jesus. It just makes sense.” Another piped in, "They are just too lazy to try to figure it out. They rely on what others say.” The truth is much more complicated. People don’t “come to Jesus” for a lot of reasons, some logical and some self serving and illogical. I came up with some 12 to 13 reasons why a person doesn’t just fall in step with the Jesus folks. I only have room to discuss three of them.
For example, some people do not bother to even think about Christianity, or any religion for that matter, simply because they believe there is no God and no eternity. The philosophy is “eat, drink and make merry for tomorrow you may die." There is nothing after death, no sense of being, and no feelings. We go to sleep and never wake! With this understanding of life, we need to get everything we need/want now even if we have to kill for it. In the popular saying, “This is a dog eat dog world.”
Wow, there is not much you can say to these folks. They are too busy with life in the here and now and