[Southflanknorthpawsis]

What does it matter what religion people are, if any? Aren't they just believing as God made them to?

It matters more than anything else in one's life.

As sinners we are not worthy of God, but He loved us so much that He lived amongst us as true God and true man and never sinned.

Jesus then bore the sins of the whole human race on the cross and gave you and me the gift of salvation.

If you believe yourself to be a sinner (as are we all), there is one way, and one way only, to remove that sin and live with God eternally.

We do not come to God on our own and cannot save ourelves. The Holy Spirit moves us to know Him and then we choose to do so or not.

I suspect that you are being moved by the Spirit now and that is why you are seeking conversation with other Christians.

This is a good verse to keep in mind:

Isaiah 55:8-9 says: "My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts; but just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

There is no contradiction in God, but there is finite understanding in us.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Oops.......

ourelves = ourselves

The devil made me do it.

[stuartcr]

If we are doing as God created us, and He knows all that we are going to do, why do you believe that we are all sinners? As the Creator of all things, didn't God create the outcome of our free-will choices? Even down to our choice of religious beliefs?