1. It is God’s responsibility to reveal Himself to me.’ Read Jeremiah 29:13. Jeremiah places the requirement on what must be done in order for someone to find God. The unbeliever must search for Him with all of his heart.

2. ‘I think God is too good to damn anyone.’ Read Ezekiel 18:23 & John 3:18. The unbeliever has drawn an incorrect conclusion from his correct assumption that God is good. In Ezekiel 18, God shows His goodness by declaring that He receives no pleasure when the wicked die, but would rather they turn from their evil ways and live. The fact remains that though God is good, and it is not His preference to punish the unbeliever, the unbeliever is condemned already because he has refused God’s provision.

3. ‘It’s hard to believe in a God I can’t see, and I don’t feel like I know.’ Read 2 Corinthians 5:7 & Hebrews 11:6. If sight were the instrument we used for believing in God, then I would agree it would be hard to believe in God. But God has given a different way for us to believe. We are to walk by faith and not by sight. God is only pleased with faith and consequently He only rewards those who exercise this pleasing faith with the gift of eternal life.

4. ‘I’m going to have a good time for now, and I’ll worry about getting right with God later.’ Read Psalm 16:11; Luke 12:16-21 & Mark 8:36,37. The unbeliever fails to realize that a life lived in fellowship with God will provide pleasures forevermore. The good time he is seeking to have now provides only (at best) temporary enjoyment. As the parable in Luke illustrates, this is the attitude of those who lay up treasure for themselves, but are not rich toward God. The Lord warns those who would choose to live for the pleasures of this world with these words, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee and what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?

5. I intend to receive Jesus before I die.’ Read Psalm 95:7-9; Proverbs 29:1 & Isaiah 55:6. Isaiah the prophet warned the people to seek the Lord while He may be found. The Lord further admonishes us in the Psalms to not harden our hearts when we hear the Word of God. The unbeliever is deceived in thinking he has the power to decide to accept Christ just prior to his death. This false notion is dispelled In Proverbs with the words, He...shall suddenly be destroyed.

6. ‘I’m afraid of praying to receive Christ and nothing happening.’ Read Hebrews 11:6 & Revelation 3:20. Jesus has said that if any man would but open the door of his heart that He would come into him. The unbeliever is faced with a very clear promise from God and is responsible to exercise faith in order to receive that promise.

7. ‘I’m too young (or old) to receive Christ.’ Read 2 Corinthians 6:2; Ecclesiastes 12:1 & Deuteronomy 4:29-31. The Scriptures tell those who claim they are too young to be saved that the time to remember their Creator is in their youth. Those who say they are too old to receive Christ fail to realize that the Bible promises them if they would turn to the Lord, even in their latter days, that they would find God. It is clear that now, this present moment, is the right time to be saved for every person of every age.