Objections and Excuses

Not now, maybe some other time

Proverbs 27:12  

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

I am not so bad

James 2:10  

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Isaiah 53:6  

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I am too bad

Hebrews 7:25  

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

I can’t understand the Bible

1 Corinthians 2:14  

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 5:7  

We live by faith, not by sight.

I’d rather enjoy my life

Ecclesiastes 11:9  

Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

1 Corinthians 6:2  

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?