Why does everyone hate Jesus?

[briareos]

Because Jesus said that he would be hated and that we would be hated because of him. Because there is a real spirit of evil in this world that hates the cause of Christ and wants to take people to a place called hell.

 

[Peripatetic]

Hardly anyone hates Jesus. Some people don't believe he ever existed, but they don't hate who he is supposed to be.

I agree. Rather than being hateful, I generally find society to be apathetic and generally disinterested in God-related questions. This trend was recently described in this article in USA Today:

Many say 'So What?' to God, religion, atheism – USATODAY.com

Hating or disliking many of his followers is another story. Most Christians act nothing like Christ and that puts a lot of people off.

This too is true, unfortunately. It is why we need to be a good example for our faith so that they don't think all Christians are what they see on TV or on street corners with bull-horns.

 

[simplemessenger]

Because, un-regenerated by GOD The HOLY SPIRIT, a human being is in bondage to sin and is naturally anti-GOD, The Lord JESUS CHRIST. GOD is holy.

"The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." - Joh 7:7

 

[day time]

In the New Testament, I recall it was the leaders of religion, people in power, etc and so forth ... that had the most contempt for Jesus. And they failed to recognize this in themselves as they were blind to it ....

In other words, it was those who thought they knew God, or thought they were god-like ... who failed to recognize the obvious and called evil-good and vice versa.

"People" typically responded just fine to Jesus ... however they didn't respond all that well to the Pharisees, laws, etc and so forth ...