I am not a jw or a lds or a seventh adventist, I have to most of all the other christian denominations and found that except the above mention and a couple of others most agree on the basic tenents of their faith.
This is what the majority of Christians believe reworded by me to help you understand what it all means.
G-d did create us with a ability to make a choice. A choice to love Him or stay seperated from Him
G-d created adam and eve and made them ruler over the whole earth (they had the title to us and everything else on earth). But in order for them to keep this title they had to pass a test. A test to determine whether or not man would love and obey G-d.
Adam the first man failed the test. Eve did not bring sin and death because she was tricked by lucifer but adam was not tricked. He knew what the penalty would be if he bit into that apple but he loved his wife and wanted to be with her so he ate it.
The result was a change in all men and women to be unable to completely live a sinless (ie mistake free, charater defects, laps in moral charater whatever you want to call it).
This allowed a very beautiful but prideful and arrogant fallen angel to take possion of us and not God. When adam sinned he signed the title to earth and all in it to lucifer..
G-d loved us and could not bear to lose everyone to His fallen angel, but He himself had to follow His own rules. So He created a plan to save everyone who wanted to be saved by Him.
The plan was that G-d Himself would create a sinless son, one that would be fully human to pay the price for the title to earth and mankind back and fully G-d so that His son could live a sinless life because of His Father.
That Son was Jesus and I am sure that most all of you already know about the story of Him being born of mary, healing people and performing miracles and then laid His life down for us at the cross, went to hell for us (so yes G-d knows just what hell is like)
and then rose again from the dead and acended into Heaven.
Because Jesus paid that dear price and suffered for us anyone who wants to believe in Him, His Father and the Holy spirit which is sent to live in us at the moment of salvation, will not perish but have everlasting life.
Why is there pain and suffering? Because until Jesus comes back and takes possion of the earth and forces lucifer out we will still suffer because as far as lucifer is concerned he still acts as though he still owned it.
Does lucifer the only reason for pain and suffering? No because until we die if we are saved we still live on this old earth in our old bodies and still operate under the law of sin. Which means we still hurt each other, we still die and we still suffer.
So if you really want to know G-d and live a perfect sinless life after death or until Jesus comes back all you have to do is admit to G-d that you have screw up (sinned, failed, have charater defects etc), ask Jesus to live in your heart, be baptised if you weren't at birth, and try to live by the principles (lessons, suggestions etc) in the bible.
You can't earn your way into heaven because none of us are capable of living a sinless life from birth to death. There is not a sliding fee scale that G-d uses to check whether or not you can get in. G-d provided a way out and if we are stubborn and choose to live without Him then when we die we will live without Him forever, stuck in our own crap, paying for all the things we did to others because without being saved you are responsible for paying for your own sins. So yes you still have a choice. If you think that hell won't be that bad and you really hate the idea of a higher power helping you thru life then you can. I would not advise it but it is still your choice.
And that is the message in a nutshell and yes gays, lesbians, bi and transgender persons can be saved contray to the message that we are too vile and immoral to be saved.
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