text: You said "God loves the people who listen to him and have high moral standards". I encourage you to consider again. That sentence sounds like the legalism of the Pharisees, for whom people were either "in" or "out". They were deeply misguided in this and corrected by Jesus. You surely know John 3:16 "For God so loved the WORLD". What is the world? It is everyone. Not just those who know and serve God. The verse does not say "God so loved the few who live in the right way." If God's very nature is love, then by that very nature everyone is embraced by divine love. That means you, me, the vicar in the photo, the gay people marching or marrying, all the people posting here that say God does not exist. God loves even those who hate and reject God. Jesus tells us "love your enemies". A greatly respected and rarely practised teaching. Is God exempt from that advice? Studying the Bible and trying to live well are good things, but to be so, they simply flow out of love for God, knowing that: Grace means there is nothing I can do that makes God love me more. Grace means there is nothing I can do that makes God love me less. Faith is not a word describing adherence to a moral code. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for, and assurance about what we cannot see." Hebrews 11. May you "know as you are now known". Peace to you.