Hi Ladynred They did not "know" anything they just, like all religions, made it up. However as they had different beliefs from you then that makes at least one of your religions wrong. You cannot state the existence of God as a fact only as an opinion. It is only a belief and in the big world picture only a minority viewpoint at that.

I pose the same question to you as in previous post. If you had not been, BRAINWASHED, or told, or preached to or perhaps lived in another part of the world how would you "know" and accept your own brand of religion and god's existence?
You cannot answer that truthfully without questioning your own faith.