Why do people think they have to believe in Jesus

@DarkHeaven ok. cool

@Axeroberts

https://similarworlds.com/poetry/writing/poetr/4611028-you-follow-your-own-Jesus-you-say-that-youre-a-Christian-but

@DarkHeaven you had me till halfway. there is no hate here

@Axeroberts who do I hate?

@DarkHeaven i don't know but it was in response to your poem

@Axeroberts some hate. I don’t hate. Jesus didn’t hate, not my Jesus.

@DarkHeaven Who hates- why?

@BritishFailedAesthetic certain Christians preach hate… why? I have no clue. You’d have to ask them. My guess is that they already hated, and just use certain verses to try and give them cover and legitimacy to their bigotry.

@DarkHeaven I mean things can percieved as hate, I don't really know the context.

@Axeroberts I think I initially missed your point of this whole post so I’d like to modify my response here. I believe you are asking why Christians (at least some of them) believe that you have to believe in Jesus or you will not be saved (from what I never understood since Jesus as a Jew didn’t really have a concept of hell and would have believed that your job was your works here and now) and that believing in a benevolent creator isn’t good enough if it doesn’t include the Bible and Jesus. I truly can’t answer that because that’s not what I believe at all. My guess would be that they have to defend their faith to the exclusion of all others, or else it will challenge the belief system they’ve created based on mistranslated Bible scripture into English and misunderstood verses. My personal faith is neither so exclusive nor fragile that it needs others to be argued away.

@DarkHeaven I feel Lady Grace in her answers here has summarised my answer to OP's question.

@BritishFailedAesthetic okay, I guess. 🤷‍♀️