[onedoug]

"If I knew God I'd be Him." Though it seems obvious that God is gracious to anyone who pursues good over evil.

[irishtenor]

But, came you pursue God if you do not know him?

As far as I can see, God is gracious to his own, the ones whom he chose. Those are the ones he saves for eternal redemption.

I will not categorically say that a person of a particular belief is either saved or not saved, as some do here. I have been told that, because I do not go to the Catholic church, I am not saved. If that is their belief, I feel sorry for them. God says to love Jesus, it says nothing about loving, obeying, worshiping, praying to, anything or anyone OTHER than God, as far as religion goes.