Hi, Butterflies. Interesting questions. Are butterflies part of your special interest as an Aspie (assuming you are)?
If God created everything, then surely he created other religions, or at least our capacity to create new religions.
If you follow one of these other religions you will go to hell.
Ah, religion. Surely, any religion that tells you that you need to be good and obey God's commandments in order to be saved is a religion that will definitely send any of its adherents to hell.
Religion is not the way to God. Jesus Christ Himself is.
Note what Jesus Christ says in John:
John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.Jesus said He Himself is the way, not religion.
The Qur'an preaches Islam as the way to Allah, modern Judaism preaches the commandments as the means to YHWH, Roman Catholicism preaches that good works and faith are what lead to the Father, and Buddhism also (in a sense) preaches good deeds for "salvation".
But let's face it. Can any of us humans confidently say that we can be perfect enough to be with God with our very limited deeds and a nature that's inclined to sin anyway?
I think not.
We've all sinned, all fallen short of God's glory ... as Romans 3:23 states. None of us can be justified by God's holiness with our deeds.
So we need Jesus Christ.
Religion ... Why do all sorts of religions exist? Because of man mostly. Man wants to please God and be protected by him, but he, being fallen by nature, doesn't want to do it on God's terms. Thus, he follows God through a religion of his choice, according to his own desires and goals.
However, that is just not the way to be saved.
In many countries, Christianity is practically forbidden, or barely known.
True, but God doesn't want us to know the religion called "Christianity". He wants us to get to know His Son, Jesus Christ.
Christianity, my friend, is not a religion. It's a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
God says in the Bible that every man, no matter the circumstances, can know God. No man is spared of the opportunity to know God.
In what way is God being fair or just by casting someone into Hell, simply for having the misfortune of being born into another religion, and having no realistic option of becoming Christian?
Here's the thing, though.
No one is going to hell for being born here or there or whatever.
Man is a sinner by nature. And unless that nature in him is legally retributed for, the only just thing for God to do would be to have him be sent to hell.
It's unfortunate.
However ...
The Good News (the Gospel) is that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the sins of ALL of us, not just those who were born into Christian families.
Why did God do this?
John 3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.Whoever believes in Jesus as the Son shall not perish but shall be saved. It says "whoever" ... not "professing Christians".
And I scored 2 out of ten in the quiz. I have never murdered or commited adultery
Wow, you must be quite a good person compared to many others. I basically failed them all.