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That is why we find good people in all religions.

Are you a religous person?

Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Hmmm. Am I religious person?

According to my husband's fundamentalist relatives, I'm not...I am going to hell...because I worship in the wrong church...

The fact that I have risked life and limb as a missionary, and the fact that my husband prays daily and worked for 30 years in a poor coal mining town instead of as a rich city doctor doesn't matter: we are going to hell...

as for quoting a line of the bible out of context:
You might try reading the gospels.

John 10:16 Jesus says he has other sheep who are not in his sheep pen...

most people think this means people outside the church who nevertheless seek to follow God's will as best they can, but through ignorance have never heard the gospel. At death, they will see Jesus, and recognize he is who they sought...

Second, in Matthew 25: 32, at the last judgement, many who did not know Jesus will be welcomed into heaven, because their deeds showed they belonged to him.

Finally, Matt 7:21 says not everyone who says Lord lord will enter heaven, only those who do the will of God...

we are saved by grace, but our actions prove whether we have responded to this grace by saying yes and following Jesus...

Romans 2:14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law...

Clearly people can demonstrate the character and nature of the one in whose image they were created without being a follower of him. That does not secure their place in eternity - it merely signifies the hand by which they were created.