DAVE Lathom corrects me and says we are not all God's children, we are God's creatures.

"Becoming his children," he says "is dependent on whether we ignore or accept those conditions laid down in the scriptures." But Dave doesn't say which scriptures. Not that it really matters.

When will these scripture quoters learn that, for every one reading their particular scriptures, there are perhaps a dozen reading other religious scriptures, all equally convinced that their scriptures are the only true scriptures, and that their God is the only true God.

As Michel de Montaigne said: "Men cannot create a maggot, yet he creates Gods by the dozen."

I believe there is only one God. People may have different ideas about Him and worship Him in different ways. But, yes, we are all God's children, even those who do not believe. How can Dave deny this when he agrees that God created us?

But He did not create us to condemn the majority of us to damnation, simply because we haven't got the sagacity to fully understand. Most of us follow the faith we were born into, and then, sadly, condemn those who think differently.

As Silas Hocking said: "Human creeds, instead of being a ladder leading to the temple of truth, are rather a house of bondage. Man spreads a veil over the face of God."

God would not abandon us because of our lack of sagacity. He will, I'm convinced, judge us on how we behave towards others, not by which scriptures we read.

Brian Derbyshire

Ribchester Grove

Bolton