I actually have a couple questions along the same vein, though I don't want to seem disrespectful at all. I have no problem whatsoever with christianity and other religions in general, I love studying them in fact! I'm basically just trying to say I don't want any kind of argument, just a friendly discussion. But I've never really gotten a satisfying answer to one question that's really put me off from considering Christianity again.
I'm a Zen Buddhist, and to give a brief background of my tradition for context, we believe in something called "samsara," a cycle of life, death and rebirth. Similar to reincarnation, but not reincarnation per say, but I'll spare you the philosophy. The goal of Buddhism is to liberate oneself from this cycle, achieving "nirvana," which is the cessation of desire. When you reach this state, in my sect (Mahayana), instead of liberating yourself from samsara, you're supposed to stay in the cycle and help liberate others, until everyone has been freed of desire. These people are called Boddhisatvas. In a sense, they are postponing their own "salvation" (I use the term VERY loosely) to help others.
My question is, why does God save only those who believe and follow him? If flawed, imperfect humans are capable of willingly and knowingly making the decision to forsake their own enlightenment to save all of mankind, why does God play favorites? Most responses I get are that we just can't know the ways of God or that our morality doesn't really apply the same way to him, but if God does an action that by most standards is considered questionably moral at best, why does he get a free pass?
Again, I'm not trying to start an argument. Just a discussion. I've been here well over a year, I'm definitely not a troll
I've just never gotten a good answer to this question from a Christian.