“It kinda represents all of us who were NOT born into a ‘religious’ home; that had to come to a decision on our own.”
I was raised in a strict Catholic environment. Even after adulthood priests would talk to me as if I were still a 2nd grader. I got tired of them talking down to me as if they were up on a pedestal and being too condescending.
I simply live my life with very strict legal, moral and ethical standards which I will not violate for anything or anyone. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
That's very good!
Just don't miss the important part:
John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.