Here is the reason I believe that you can find God in any religion. (coming from a Christian perspective)

In Acts 17:22-25 Paul states to the Athens "Areopagus" (a council of elders in Athens) "As I wondered your places of worship, I even found an alter with this inscription "To an unknown god" There for you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you The Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as if he needs anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone."

if the God you worship is the God that teaches the following, then we are in love with the same God and brothers / sisters and that should rejoicing together.

And if you are an Atheist or Agnostic and you feel love for your fellow man, and the sting of injustice for all your human brothers, we should break bread together as well.

Thomas (a disciple of Jesus) John 20:24-29 did not believe until he examined the wounds of Jesus, after his death. If someone who knew Jesus, a walking miracle worker, didn't believe the good news until he touched the wounds, then how can we hold it again people who have a hard time believing 2000 years later?

I Corinthians 13: 1-8 Paul again...

"If I speak in the tounges of men and of angels, but I do not love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but have not loved, I recieved no benefit.
Love is patient, Love is kind, Love does not brag,
it is not puffed up It is not rude, It is not self serving,
It is not easily angered or resentful.
It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.

I Corinthians 13:13

"And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."

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Getting "Saved"

"People use to term "get saved" a lot. But what do you believe you are saved from? Do you believe there is a difference in being saved and being born again?"

This question was asked recently on the forum I frequent (Revolutionnyc)

I used to think that I was saved from hell, this was fire insurance for the hereafter, something just in case. I was living a very miserable life and leaving the church altogether after awhile seeing the way "even sinners behave this way" that the Christians treat each other.

Now I believe something amazing....


I am saved not in the after life but the here and now. I feel the after life is a bonus to the life that God has now shown to me.

I am saved from the self hate, life I was living.

I am saved from the resentments of life I felt I feel a warm, bracing love surrounding me through all things God whispering "I got you, be calm, I got this, I love you, you will be OK."
I feel this love and now I am push to serve my fellow man, where he is at not where he needs to be.
I want other to feel the joy that I feel. (this being said people around me don't want to listen to the Good News and I do get frustrated on where God wants me to be)

I believe others will be shown the love of God either before they die or after they die. I choose to believe God has no limits .... time and death can't keep him from his children whom he loves unconditionally.

People will spend time in hell until they come to believe that all people can be shown the grace of God. To your left will be the person that caused you the most harm and to the rights will be the person that you hurt them most at the feast Jesus has prepared.