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However, if they picked up English common law that they still have, they could turn themselves into a free nation. But they won't. They reject common law and go into slavery, just as they reject Christianity, the only salvation for eternal life.

You think converting to Christianity would have solved all their problems?

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Yap , christians like ourselves are also the ones causing problems. Salvation is based on your own deeds

Converting to Christianity DOES solve all our problems.

Simply saying that you have converted to Christianity, or saying it and then following something else, isn't converting to Christianity.

Salvation is based on one deed, if you can call it that. Salvation is believing that Jesus took all the punishment for all your sins and mistakes that you made as you live your whole life in the sight of God.

This life is relatively short. Most of us in this forum can imagine what it would be like to live in health from now on... no end.

There will be a resurrection from death, and there will follow it a judgment before God. Depending on a persons faith in Jesus in this life, it will have already been decided whether he/she will spend eternity in glory with God, or in the eternal dying that it takes for the soul to truly die.

Becoming a Christian in truth or in name doesn't stop one from making more trouble for himself in this short life.

Yes you are totally right. If there is god and yes there is.. God would only accept Christians in heaven..

Do you even understand the concept of religion, 1 god for all of humanity. Every country, every religion is...

The same

Unlike the jews, I believe there is salvations for everybody, religion independant.

There is great question in this. To what extent will God allow mistakes about understanding Him. For example.

Everyone recognizes (at least way down deep) that God exists. One person believes that God is a spirit that can't be seen, but can only be felt. Another believes that an erupting volcano just has to be God. A third believes that God is the sun which gives warmth and light to all.

How far will God go in allowing people to believe misunderstandings about Him, and yet forgive them? Who can tell that if religious people of different religions that have basically the correct understanding of what God is like, and yet are completely separate religions, that the religion that God emphasizes will receive blessing while others not, even though they are so similar?

Perhaps it is the heart of each individual believer that determines where he stands with God. Some people of the same religion are saved. Others are not. Ultimately it would be God's decision.

The Judeo-Christian religion seems to have tremendous strength to it. Way more ancient copies of parts of the Bible exist than of the religious writings of any other religion. The nation of Israel is strong, while nations of other religions are weak (at least size for size), and they (Israel) are the ones who have maintained the Bible in the past.

The point? Let's get as close to being accurate as we can. Why? Because even though we feel that God will/might/should save all people, doesn't mean that God thinks like this. He might accept only the religion that is close to correct, and the people who worship Him in spirit and truth. After all, He has to be a God of truth to be able to maintain such a great universe, doesn't He.