[meandog]

If we were all there in the form of elements, doesn't that make us all the same? Why the big deal about how someone believes?

Indeed it does...there is no big deal about how someone believes (IMHO, personally because I'm somewhat of a universalist) because somehow God has a plan for all of us to achieve salvation...

[stuartcr]

OK, but what is this salvation you speak of?

[WKB]

because somehow God has a plan for all of us to achieve salvation...


You are exactly right and here it is in God's own word

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.