Four Different Ways To Reject Jesus

[David Sklansky]

It seems to me that there are actually four different categories of what some might call "rejecting Jesus". And that it would be useful when discussing non believers, to know which category they are in.

1. The Adam type category. Someone who has no doubt about God's existence and power but wants to defy it. Adam was about God. But I am sure there are also examples more recently, of people who defied what they believed to be a divine Jesus.

2. The Jewish type category. Someone who believes in God, has no wish to defy him, but simply thinks the Jesus story is untrue. Not because he wants it to be untrue. He agrees with most of his teachings. But he also thinks that God is at least a bit miffed at those who fell for the ressurection story and he doesn't want to be one of them.

3. The genial scientist type category. This fellow also has no problem with most of the things the bible claims God desires, and would be perfectly pleased to discover that God, with or without Jesus exists. In spite of the probability/logic/science/magician evidence against it. Included in this category are the less scientifically oriented who actually think there is a decent chance that God/Jesus exists but consider it less than even money. (Those people are presently screwed real bad but I'm going to try to help them in another thread.) Another subcategory are those people who have no problem with God but think their high falootin philosophical arguments force them to disbelieve in him. (A classic case of being probably right, but for the wrong reason.)

4. The 1-3 combination type. These people hate God/Jesus similar to type One. And talk about why belief in him is deleterious even if he existed. But they also claim a scientific and/or philosophical reason to disbelieve. Can you spell "ulterior motive"? Another name for these people is "cannon fodder for Not Ready". They throw him fastballs that he hits out of the park. And allow him to ignore the much tougher problem of categories two and three above.