Wow! Why would anyone reject God's very best gift ever?

 Wow! Help me understand why anyone would reject their Creator’s greatest gift in the universe: eternal life with Jesus. Some religions torture or behead people. Some want to control you. Jesus wants to love you and give you life to the full. He says, “I am the way, the truth and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 

His gift of new life to me has uplifted me and I am overjoyed at the outcome: blessings upon blessings, even during troubles and heartaches. Jesus has given me hope and soaring, never-ending joy, no matter what, even during troubles I am going through!

It's all about the greatest love above and beyond all you could ask or imagine! And we know Jesus is God with the Father. He told religious leaders, sons of Abraham, that He, Jesus, was I AM. And the religious leaders decided to have Jesus killed, because they knew Jesus claimed to be God (and now there is overwhelming evidence)! What do you have against God's love?!

The love of God is greater far   Than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest star   And reaches to the lowest hell. The guilty pair, bowed down with care,   God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled   And pardoned from his sin.
	O love of God, how rich and pure!   How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure—     The saints’ and angels’ song.
2	When hoary time shall pass away,   And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall; When men who here refuse to pray,   On rocks and hills and mountains call; God’s love, so sure, shall still endure,   All measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—   The saints’ and angels’ song.
3	Could we with ink the ocean fill,   And were the skies of parchment made; Were every stalk on earth a quill,   And every man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above   Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole,   Though stretched from sky to sky.

Is Jesus actually God in the flesh Who lives today? Yes! With absolute certainty and overwhelming evidence!

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 10:30 - I and my Father are one.

Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 10:30 - I and my Father are one.

Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.

Religious leaders wanted to kill Him, because they heard Him say He is God.

Jesus rose from the dead, proving He is God.

His disciples, eyewitnesses to His resurrection, later died horrible deaths. Why would they rather suffer if they knew the Resurrection was a lie?

God chose a woman to announce the Resurrection. Women had no standing in those days. They couldn't even testify in court. If God raising Jesus from the dead was nothing more than a lie, the liars wouldn't choose a woman to announce this miracle!

I'm betting my eternity on Jesus, the only God-Man, because I talk to Him, He talks to me through His Word and private promptings, and He has given me joyful, abundant life! 

Listen to God-inspired words from a former skeptic:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.