Everybody wants to go to Heaven

Why are people uncomfortable with Christianity? Why aren't non-Christians searching for God? Why don't they worry about what happens after death? I think they are searching for God on some level, but they're scared of what they'll find.

I asked my dad how people could believe in aliens or ghosts, but they couldn't believe in God. He told me it's because ghosts and aliens don't require a commitment, believing in them doesn't change your whole life.

I was at a party over the weekend and my friends boyfriend (we'll call him Jim) asked what I would do if one of my friends was gay. Because he was intoxicated I told him my friend wasn't gay and shrugged him off. He continued to follow me telling me I would be really sad because my friend would go to hell and I'd never see him again. I told him that just because he would be gay didn't mean God wouldn't forgive him if he asked. Jim responded by telling me it says gays can't go to heaven in the Bible. I finally recognized that Jim wasn't trying to bug me about about some friend being gay or just talking nonsense from being intoxicated; he was curious about heaven and hell.

I quoted Romans 10:9 to him and I explained the best I could that being gay was a sin along with pedophilia, murder, stealing, and lying, and that we've all sinned. All sin separates us from God, but through Jesus we can be forgiven. He argued with me saying he didn't believe that God could forgive someone as evil a murderer. I told him" God knows your heart and knows if you honestly want that forgiveness. If you truly do ask for that forgiveness you'll want to live your life to honor Him, which includes abstaining from a gay lifestyle, if you were gay, and therefore you would go to heaven."

His girlfriend and a few other friends had come up to us and started begging for him to shut up. My friends know I'm a christian, and because of it they act like there's an unwritten rule not to talk to me about God because I'm going to condemn them to hell. I wish they would understand I'm not trying to condemn them to hell just because I'm helping them to recognize they're not living for God; I want them to go to heaven. I get really excited when I am able to talk about God to non-Christians, particularly my friends. I just wish everyone else wasn't so uncomfortable.