Hi Rubie and welcome to CC.
When I was being drawn to the Lord, I didn't know a thing about Christianity. I had some wonderful people who helped out when I went to a church.
If you are being drawn by the Lord, you will have a sense that you're a sinner and that God is holy. God, out of His loving kindness draws us to Him so that we will repent of our sins and instead of continuing on living the way we were, we give our life to God and begin to serve Him for the rest of our life.
Going back to the why of it all when we read in Genesis we find that because of Adam and Eve's sin, we all fell away from God's holiness and we began to live our life of sin apart from Him.
So at birth, we already begin our life without God. THat's why Jesus said we must be born again....born from above or born of the Spirit. That new birth is something God does within us when we respond to the Gospel by faith.
The Gospel is that we're all sinners, we've all sinned. If you believe on the Lord Jesus you'll find that you'll repent of your sins. There are many scriptures that talk about what the Gospel is, but to get you started, we're all saved by God's grace.....His free gift of salvation that's unmerited, we don't work for it..........we receive it by faith in Jesus.
Jesus died on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Jesus saves us from our sins that have separated us from the one and only Holy God.
When you read the old testament, you'll find that Jesus was prophesied as the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. He's the sacrificial lamb that atones for sin .......He gave His life for us and when we believe in Him so that we won't perish, but we'll have eternal life.
So we are saved by God's grace of love that we didn't deserve. That shows how much He loves us. And God's grace comes upon us by faith, but believe that He is the Son of God and that He is God. Well that's enough to begin with. As you have questions, please feel free to post them to the group or you could always PM me as well.