I was raised a protestant christian in a church of Christ, and my parents have always made a point to relate almost everything back to their faiths in some way. I made it my faith when I chose to be baptized, because I truly believe it. Before that, yeah, of course I went to church and learned about God and was told that I needed to live a life as a christian, but I didn't really know what I thought of it until I was 13 or 14. Before that, I would say I was agnostic, really. I thought people didn't know enough about God to say all the things they were saying. But then when I started looking into the scriptures of the bible it made more sense, and I saw where these teachers were getting their information from. I thought long and hard (and still do sometimes, out of doubt and wonder) if God would really send his one and only son to save everyone. I eventually had to realize that just because I wouldn't do it, doesn't mean that God wouldn't. In fact, I believe it's something only God would be willing to do. I wouldn't even give up my own life for a lot of people that I know, yet someone who didn't know any of us in this age did die for all of us. That's pretty amazing to me. I also looked at the words he said, what he was teaching, etc. and realized he truly wanted everyone to live good, meaningful lives. I still believe that, and I probably always will. It's not even a question of whether he exists or not right now, but will I follow his example? That's something I'm trying harder and harder to do as the years go by.
I agree with many of the things you said. I think it is up to us to choose to follow God's example whether or not we are raised in a Christian home. I think it's so important to try to follow His example and live by His word as best as we can.
I was raised in a Christian home. My parents taught me that we need to love others and lead others to WANT to join in our faith by leading by example. Living a life that intrigues others to seek out, for themselves, why we live such happy lives. They also told me that I had to make the choice myself to become a Christ follower, and, at the age of 7 I decided that I wanted to make it so. Seeing just how loving and kind my parents are towards each other and other people and just exactly what it meant to be a Baptist Christian, I knew that I wanted to be the same way. Of course I have to credit them with this upbringing that led me to where I am today because I can, if I'm really honest with myself, say that if they had been followers of any other religion, I would have most likely chosen that religion as my own. This doesn't necessarily bother me, so long as I was happy and really believed in whatever it was I was brought up around. To this day I have never once regretted my choice, and grow stronger in my faith each day. I try my best to love others and lead others to wonder why I am this way by exemplifying these values in my day to day. This doesn't mean I'm not very passionate about science. I am, trust me. I'm just a firm believer thatboth religion AND science have just as much validity as the other.
As I read the entries of my fellow classmates I find that my biography starts out much similar to theirs, in a Christian home. Yes, I was brought up in a Christian home, but what does that really mean? My parents took me to church where I was taught about God and His son Jesus. My parents would often read me stories in the bible in attempt to grow my understanding of Christ. Once I was 10 years old I decided I wanted to publically give my life to Christ by being baptized. At that time I felt that I was close to God but as I began to grow into my teen years I felt as though my connection with God was dwindling. There was no denying that I believed wholeheartedly that God is our creator I just didn’t feel as close to him as I had in previous years. It wasn’t until October of 2014 that my biography turned into a testimony. God put me through a big test that made me question Him. My nights were occupied by tears and more question, but I soon came to the realization the God knows what He is doing and I began to read my bible and pray more often. As I read and prayed my faith and my spirit grew stronger and stronger. Now, as I look back, I realize that my Test is now my Testimony that God put me through to bring me back to Him and show me that He is there. God has showed me so much grace and I would say many parts of my life play a big role in the strength of my faith today. I don’t feel that God has spoken to me but from my knowledge of the bible and experience of life has assured me that God truly does exist.
I was also raised in a Christian home, and have always been taught to love others and put God first. I have had many challenges in faith and will most likely continue to have them. I think i believe God exists because i have seen what he has done in other peoples' lives. When i ever struggled in my faith i was quickly reassured by seeing other believers in church on Sundays and the effects their faith has had on their lives. I have worshipped alongside too many wonderful people and felt their unconditional love too many times to comprehend a life in which God does not exist!
Because I was raised in a triditional Christian home, I have been told to love like Jesus, forgive, and to have a strong faith in God. I cannot imagine not believing in God. Or growing up in a household without God. I believe that God is my rock and without Him I would be lost. I do believe that where you grow up affects your beliefs, but I also think that I would come to be a Christian if I wasnt born into a Christian family.
I was also raised in a Christian home. I was raised in believing God created everything and there was no question about it, all my friends and family were raised the same way. I think that in some ways where and who you hang out with affects your look on religion
I grew up in a Christian home, however for a long time I just went through the motions of going to church and praying before bed. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I started to realize what it really meant to be a Christian. Yes, I prayed and went to church every Sunday, but that didn't make me a true follower of Christ. I realized that I wanted to grow closer to God, but I couldn't do that if I wasn't living out His love and really delving into the Bible and its meaning. So, I started to read my Bible every night before bed and pray more frequently and deeply. I became so much happier knowing that God has a purpose for me and that He is the reason I am alive and free. My faith soon started to fade and I grew apart from God as I became so fixated on school and other things. However, similar to Katie, God really tested my love for Him last year when I went through a really hard time. Now that I have come through it, I realize that He used that to bring me back to Him, as I had started to grow apart from him gradually. Like Katie said, I now have a testimony and I want to live for God and continue to grow closer to Him every day. God is so amazing in the way he answers prayers, not always in the way we expect, but He has a purpose for everything. I believe whole-heartedly that God exists, not just because of my Christian upbringing but also because of my own personal experiences and opinions.
As of most people I too was born and raised into a Christian home. My family went to church most every Sunday, but as I got older and started taking soccer more seriously we started going about 2 times a month because I had soccer on Sundays. I didn't really get to know God until I noticed my friends getting baptized. Then some of my sisters and my brother where baptized and I felt like I should have a real relationship with God before I become baptized. So I started reading the bible, praying, and really thinking about it and it has made me become closer and closer to him. I am still on that quest to really find him and have a relationship. Although, I do know he is real because on se church camps I have been on and just sitting at home praying you can feel Jesus and God touch you spiritually and you can't explain it you just know he is there with you.
Like most of my classmates, I was raised in a Christian home. Both of my parents were raised in a deep southern Baptist area, and they instilled that on my sister and I from a very young age. As I got older, I began to drift away from what I was taught and what I believed to be true for so long. I started wondering to myself "what if Christianity isn't the right answer?" Of course, I hoped with everything I had that it is the truth, it killed me not knowing the exact truth. Then one day, I figured out what faith was. It's an experience that I can't even explain to this day, but it completely shattered every doubt I had about the credibility of God and if He was real. And now I know that nothing can shake that faith.
Most everyone I know was born in a Christian atmosphere. When I was younger, there was a long time period where we never went to church. I don't think it was until middle school or maybe 5th grade when we actually started going to church somewhat regularly. It wasn't until I started going to church with one of my good friends that I became more involved, and from that point on I have been making efforts to go to church regularly with my family. I didn't know what I believed for a long time. God has reviled himself to me in many ways. whether it be through blessings, small miracles, or just feeling his presence. I don't know if I can recall a "life-changing" event where I've known for sure that got exists. However, i feel like its illogical to believe that we don't live in a supernatural world.
My biography has really defined how and why I believe in God in the manner and fashion that I do. Some of the ways that my biography has shaped my understanding and belief in a God is that I was born into a Christian family that from am early age taught me about Christian beliefs. Another part of my biography that has helped shape my understanding of God is that my parents have always been very involved with the church such as leading kids and youth ministries and they have always challenged in their teachings to look up what scriptures they are using and prove the validity for yourself. Another impact on my understanding of God is the fact that I find this subject interesting and so have actually researched the concept of God and wether or not the history of the bible is true and also what are the challenging beliefs to there being a God. So all of this has led me to the conclusion that God does exist and that he has done the things that he says he has done and that the bible is truth.
I was raised in a Christian home by a Sunday school teacher for a mom and a father that worked for the church. I spent all my time reading and studying His word. When I was finished with my fourth grade year my parents got divorced and I was moved to a small town in Massachusetts where nobody believed in anything and if you did you were the laughing stock of the town. The more the friends I made the more I found myself questioning my faith. I lost a friend to suicide and then another to a rifle accident within a year of each other and I again found myself questioning if God existed. One of my good friends brought me to church with her and the message that day was something I had needed to hear for a really long time. I have nice found myself believing in the presence of God every day more and more than I ever had.
Like everyone else who has commented so far, I was raised in a Christian home. One of the main challenges I've faced in my faith has been the issue of my upbringing; I'm honestly not sure I would have arrived at the same conclusions about life and adopted the same values I hold now if I had been born on the other side of the globe. I feel like my biography is almost a hurdle I am having to jump over in order to really make my faith my own.
I was raised Catholic, and I feel like I had a great relationship with God, but as I got older the relationship disappeared. I learned in school about all the terrible things that happen and have happened in the world, and I now only have one grandparent left. All of this makes me question if there really is a God, because I was taught that God loved everyone and cared about people, but so many suffer so I believe that if there is a God he is not the great wonderful one everyone says he is and I don't want to put faith into him.
I was raised in a Catholic household, and felt my faith was very strong for many years. Everything I did seemed to come back to my faith. As I grew older, things began to go horribly wrong in my life. I felt alone and abandoned. No matter how hard I prayed or how often I cried out, God seemed to have left me. As things progressed, I fell further into a belief that there was no God, and if there was, he was cruel. I went on like this for a long time. Only recently have I rediscovered my faith. It wasn't through any sort of miracle, and it certainly wasn't through anything good. Simply, I had hit rock bottom and had nowhere to turn. In my despair, I seemed to wake up and realize who I had become and that my faith had been shaken because I had expected God to take care of me. What I hadn't understood was that he was trying to get me to learn how to take care of myself. It was a painful discovery, but one that's already made me feel a little like my old self again. It's led me to understand that God is good, but that that doesn't mean he is always going to take care of us. He's good because he knows we need to have free will and we need to do things for ourselves sometimes. He's always there to lean on and help out when things have gotten really bad, but more often than not he steps back because he knows it's for our own good, or because he doesn't want free will to vanish. (also sorry this is so late.)
I was raised in a Christian family. I was taught Jesus is the son of God and he died on the cross for us. My beliefs, however, don't necessarily come from my parents or grandparents. Yes, that's how I know about God, yes that is why I'm a Christian. Though, over the years I have experienced and learned things that has developed my beliefs and morals. I go to church, I study the bible, I pray to God. But sometimes I still find myself questioning all of it. Is God really real, or is he made up? Is he just a symbol for hope? Once I find myself questioning, I soon think of possible answers to my questions. They will never be proven but can be believed. I pray to God and have my prayers answered at times. I go to church and hear all they have to say about God. But that doesn't mean it's true. It's not possible at this point in time to prove that God exists. I believe in God, I am a Christian, and I still question my beliefs sometimes. It makes your beliefs stronger. If I don't consider God's existence to be real or unreal then how could I truly believe one side?
I believe God exists. The reason I say that is because a few weeks ago, I was on my way to school and I slipped on black ice and started spinning. I was very very very close to dumping off into a deep ditch and seriously injuring myself, but thankfully I spun and hit a driveway and popped a tire. I know that might not sound like a good example, but thinking back to the whole situation, someone or something was definitely watching out for me. This one event has strengthened my belief in God, but I still have questions that I know might never get answered.
I grew up in a house where religion was not something that was important. My family didn't attend church every week and because of that, on the few times we did attend, I thought of it as a waste of time. I didn't come to understand religion being a characteristic of who you were until we moved to Tennessee, where every family attended church on Sundays and Wednesdays, something that was never heard where I use to live. I think because of this I have a strained belief system, and am not entirely sure what I believe.
My biography, as in my story, has been affected vastly based on the existences of God. I am a firm believer in God and the miracles and opportunity's he blesses in our lives, I believe we can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. If I didn't have this belief or optimism about God and the things he can provide for me, I might be a different person with different morals and a different point of view and life, I might grow to disrespect the people around me, my family, and myself. Due to my faith in God, I believe that I can achieve anything, that I have a purpose to be fulfilled that will impact others and that I was meant to be a righteous person in this world. The difference between my biography with the understanding of the existence of God and my biography without the understanding of the existence of God, is that God is my author, he is writing/ has wrote my story already, because I know this I am confident in where He will lead my life and I don't have to worry about writing my biography on my own.
I was raised in a Christian Baptist household. We went to church on Sundays,prayed before bed and did things that "normal" Christians did. My parents stated to me at around the age of nine that I could make a choice to go to church or not to go. I stopped going around that age and did not go again until I was about fifteen. I see church in a negative light. I do not like praying to God in front or with 100 other people. I think that just like your money and your stance on politics, your religious preferences and prayers should be kept private. God has gone from the all mighty to a celebrity that everyone fights over who knows Him more or has a better relationship with Him. I do not believe in purposeful prayer, meaning I do not ask God for things that I feel I cannot make happen for myself. I do not credit God for my success, nor do I credit God for the success of a doctor when curing a patient. I believe that God is sort of like a passerby, He is always there for us but wants us to succeed by trial and error on our own. I am not a very religious person, though I am spiritual.
I grew up a Catholic until about the age of 6 or 7. My parents were influenced by my grandparents on my mom's side, being that they were strongly Catholic. At 7 however, my parents got divorced. My dad was out of my life for about 3 years. While he was with my mom, neither were very religious and we inconsistently went to church. When he came back in my life however, my dad had "found God". He's now an Anglican and is very strict. My mom on the other hand fell away from God. She still believes there is a God but she doesn't like organized religion. This has confused me seeing as both my parents are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Right now I would say I am deciding between Deism and Atheism. I still don't know what I am and it will definitely take some more research and self insight to figure it all out.
I was raised a protestant christian in a church of Christ, and my parents have always made a point to relate almost everything back to their faiths in some way. I made it my faith when I chose to be baptized, because I truly believe it. Before that, yeah, of course I went to church and learned about God and was told that I needed to live a life as a christian, but I didn't really know what I thought of it until I was 13 or 14. Before that, I would say I was agnostic, really. I thought people didn't know enough about God to say all the things they were saying. But then when I started looking into the scriptures of the bible it made more sense, and I saw where these teachers were getting their information from. I thought long and hard (and still do sometimes, out of doubt and wonder) if God would really send his one and only son to save everyone. I eventually had to realize that just because I wouldn't do it, doesn't mean that God wouldn't. In fact, I believe it's something only God would be willing to do. I wouldn't even give up my own life for a lot of people that I know, yet someone who didn't know any of us in this age did die for all of us. That's pretty amazing to me. I also looked at the words he said, what he was teaching, etc. and realized he truly wanted everyone to live good, meaningful lives. I still believe that, and I probably always will. It's not even a question of whether he exists or not right now, but will I follow his example? That's something I'm trying harder and harder to do as the years go by.
ReplyDeleteI agree with many of the things you said. I think it is up to us to choose to follow God's example whether or not we are raised in a Christian home. I think it's so important to try to follow His example and live by His word as best as we can.
DeleteI was raised in a Christian home. My parents taught me that we need to love others and lead others to WANT to join in our faith by leading by example. Living a life that intrigues others to seek out, for themselves, why we live such happy lives. They also told me that I had to make the choice myself to become a Christ follower, and, at the age of 7 I decided that I wanted to make it so. Seeing just how loving and kind my parents are towards each other and other people and just exactly what it meant to be a Baptist Christian, I knew that I wanted to be the same way. Of course I have to credit them with this upbringing that led me to where I am today because I can, if I'm really honest with myself, say that if they had been followers of any other religion, I would have most likely chosen that religion as my own. This doesn't necessarily bother me, so long as I was happy and really believed in whatever it was I was brought up around. To this day I have never once regretted my choice, and grow stronger in my faith each day. I try my best to love others and lead others to wonder why I am this way by exemplifying these values in my day to day. This doesn't mean I'm not very passionate about science. I am, trust me. I'm just a firm believer thatboth religion AND science have just as much validity as the other.
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ReplyDeleteAs I read the entries of my fellow classmates I find that my biography starts out much similar to theirs, in a Christian home. Yes, I was brought up in a Christian home, but what does that really mean? My parents took me to church where I was taught about God and His son Jesus. My parents would often read me stories in the bible in attempt to grow my understanding of Christ. Once I was 10 years old I decided I wanted to publically give my life to Christ by being baptized. At that time I felt that I was close to God but as I began to grow into my teen years I felt as though my connection with God was dwindling. There was no denying that I believed wholeheartedly that God is our creator I just didn’t feel as close to him as I had in previous years. It wasn’t until October of 2014 that my biography turned into a testimony. God put me through a big test that made me question Him. My nights were occupied by tears and more question, but I soon came to the realization the God knows what He is doing and I began to read my bible and pray more often. As I read and prayed my faith and my spirit grew stronger and stronger. Now, as I look back, I realize that my Test is now my Testimony that God put me through to bring me back to Him and show me that He is there. God has showed me so much grace and I would say many parts of my life play a big role in the strength of my faith today. I don’t feel that God has spoken to me but from my knowledge of the bible and experience of life has assured me that God truly does exist.
ReplyDeleteI love this. My story is a lot similar to yours in that God put me to the test and it ultimately brought me closer to Him in the end.
DeleteI was also raised in a Christian home, and have always been taught to love others and put God first. I have had many challenges in faith and will most likely continue to have them. I think i believe God exists because i have seen what he has done in other peoples' lives. When i ever struggled in my faith i was quickly reassured by seeing other believers in church on Sundays and the effects their faith has had on their lives. I have worshipped alongside too many wonderful people and felt their unconditional love too many times to comprehend a life in which God does not exist!
ReplyDeleteBecause I was raised in a triditional Christian home, I have been told to love like Jesus, forgive, and to have a strong faith in God. I cannot imagine not believing in God. Or growing up in a household without God. I believe that God is my rock and without Him I would be lost. I do believe that where you grow up affects your beliefs, but I also think that I would come to be a Christian if I wasnt born into a Christian family.
ReplyDeleteI was also raised in a Christian home. I was raised in believing God created everything and there was no question about it, all my friends and family were raised the same way. I think that in some ways where and who you hang out with affects your look on religion
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a Christian home, however for a long time I just went through the motions of going to church and praying before bed. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I started to realize what it really meant to be a Christian. Yes, I prayed and went to church every Sunday, but that didn't make me a true follower of Christ. I realized that I wanted to grow closer to God, but I couldn't do that if I wasn't living out His love and really delving into the Bible and its meaning. So, I started to read my Bible every night before bed and pray more frequently and deeply. I became so much happier knowing that God has a purpose for me and that He is the reason I am alive and free. My faith soon started to fade and I grew apart from God as I became so fixated on school and other things. However, similar to Katie, God really tested my love for Him last year when I went through a really hard time. Now that I have come through it, I realize that He used that to bring me back to Him, as I had started to grow apart from him gradually. Like Katie said, I now have a testimony and I want to live for God and continue to grow closer to Him every day. God is so amazing in the way he answers prayers, not always in the way we expect, but He has a purpose for everything. I believe whole-heartedly that God exists, not just because of my Christian upbringing but also because of my own personal experiences and opinions.
ReplyDeleteAs of most people I too was born and raised into a Christian home. My family went to church most every Sunday, but as I got older and started taking soccer more seriously we started going about 2 times a month because I had soccer on Sundays. I didn't really get to know God until I noticed my friends getting baptized. Then some of my sisters and my brother where baptized and I felt like I should have a real relationship with God before I become baptized. So I started reading the bible, praying, and really thinking about it and it has made me become closer and closer to him. I am still on that quest to really find him and have a relationship. Although, I do know he is real because on se church camps I have been on and just sitting at home praying you can feel Jesus and God touch you spiritually and you can't explain it you just know he is there with you.
ReplyDeleteLike most of my classmates, I was raised in a Christian home. Both of my parents were raised in a deep southern Baptist area, and they instilled that on my sister and I from a very young age. As I got older, I began to drift away from what I was taught and what I believed to be true for so long. I started wondering to myself "what if Christianity isn't the right answer?" Of course, I hoped with everything I had that it is the truth, it killed me not knowing the exact truth. Then one day, I figured out what faith was. It's an experience that I can't even explain to this day, but it completely shattered every doubt I had about the credibility of God and if He was real. And now I know that nothing can shake that faith.
ReplyDeleteMost everyone I know was born in a Christian atmosphere. When I was younger, there was a long time period where we never went to church. I don't think it was until middle school or maybe 5th grade when we actually started going to church somewhat regularly. It wasn't until I started going to church with one of my good friends that I became more involved, and from that point on I have been making efforts to go to church regularly with my family. I didn't know what I believed for a long time. God has reviled himself to me in many ways. whether it be through blessings, small miracles, or just feeling his presence. I don't know if I can recall a "life-changing" event where I've known for sure that got exists. However, i feel like its illogical to believe that we don't live in a supernatural world.
ReplyDeleteMy biography has really defined how and why I believe in God in the manner and fashion that I do. Some of the ways that my biography has shaped my understanding and belief in a God is that I was born into a Christian family that from am early age taught me about Christian beliefs. Another part of my biography that has helped shape my understanding of God is that my parents have always been very involved with the church such as leading kids and youth ministries and they have always challenged in their teachings to look up what scriptures they are using and prove the validity for yourself. Another impact on my understanding of God is the fact that I find this subject interesting and so have actually researched the concept of God and wether or not the history of the bible is true and also what are the challenging beliefs to there being a God. So all of this has led me to the conclusion that God does exist and that he has done the things that he says he has done and that the bible is truth.
ReplyDeleteI was raised in a Christian home by a Sunday school teacher for a mom and a father that worked for the church. I spent all my time reading and studying His word. When I was finished with my fourth grade year my parents got divorced and I was moved to a small town in Massachusetts where nobody believed in anything and if you did you were the laughing stock of the town. The more the friends I made the more I found myself questioning my faith. I lost a friend to suicide and then another to a rifle accident within a year of each other and I again found myself questioning if God existed. One of my good friends brought me to church with her and the message that day was something I had needed to hear for a really long time. I have nice found myself believing in the presence of God every day more and more than I ever had.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else who has commented so far, I was raised in a Christian home. One of the main challenges I've faced in my faith has been the issue of my upbringing; I'm honestly not sure I would have arrived at the same conclusions about life and adopted the same values I hold now if I had been born on the other side of the globe. I feel like my biography is almost a hurdle I am having to jump over in order to really make my faith my own.
ReplyDeleteI was raised Catholic, and I feel like I had a great relationship with God, but as I got older the relationship disappeared. I learned in school about all the terrible things that happen and have happened in the world, and I now only have one grandparent left. All of this makes me question if there really is a God, because I was taught that God loved everyone and cared about people, but so many suffer so I believe that if there is a God he is not the great wonderful one everyone says he is and I don't want to put faith into him.
ReplyDeleteI was raised in a Catholic household, and felt my faith was very strong for many years. Everything I did seemed to come back to my faith. As I grew older, things began to go horribly wrong in my life. I felt alone and abandoned. No matter how hard I prayed or how often I cried out, God seemed to have left me. As things progressed, I fell further into a belief that there was no God, and if there was, he was cruel. I went on like this for a long time. Only recently have I rediscovered my faith. It wasn't through any sort of miracle, and it certainly wasn't through anything good. Simply, I had hit rock bottom and had nowhere to turn. In my despair, I seemed to wake up and realize who I had become and that my faith had been shaken because I had expected God to take care of me. What I hadn't understood was that he was trying to get me to learn how to take care of myself. It was a painful discovery, but one that's already made me feel a little like my old self again. It's led me to understand that God is good, but that that doesn't mean he is always going to take care of us. He's good because he knows we need to have free will and we need to do things for ourselves sometimes. He's always there to lean on and help out when things have gotten really bad, but more often than not he steps back because he knows it's for our own good, or because he doesn't want free will to vanish. (also sorry this is so late.)
ReplyDeleteI was raised in a Christian family. I was taught Jesus is the son of God and he died on the cross for us. My beliefs, however, don't necessarily come from my parents or grandparents. Yes, that's how I know about God, yes that is why I'm a Christian. Though, over the years I have experienced and learned things that has developed my beliefs and morals. I go to church, I study the bible, I pray to God. But sometimes I still find myself questioning all of it. Is God really real, or is he made up? Is he just a symbol for hope? Once I find myself questioning, I soon think of possible answers to my questions. They will never be proven but can be believed. I pray to God and have my prayers answered at times. I go to church and hear all they have to say about God. But that doesn't mean it's true. It's not possible at this point in time to prove that God exists. I believe in God, I am a Christian, and I still question my beliefs sometimes. It makes your beliefs stronger. If I don't consider God's existence to be real or unreal then how could I truly believe one side?
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ReplyDeleteI believe God exists. The reason I say that is because a few weeks ago, I was on my way to school and I slipped on black ice and started spinning. I was very very very close to dumping off into a deep ditch and seriously injuring myself, but thankfully I spun and hit a driveway and popped a tire. I know that might not sound like a good example, but thinking back to the whole situation, someone or something was definitely watching out for me. This one event has strengthened my belief in God, but I still have questions that I know might never get answered.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a house where religion was not something that was important. My family didn't attend church every week and because of that, on the few times we did attend, I thought of it as a waste of time. I didn't come to understand religion being a characteristic of who you were until we moved to Tennessee, where every family attended church on Sundays and Wednesdays, something that was never heard where I use to live. I think because of this I have a strained belief system, and am not entirely sure what I believe.
ReplyDeleteMy biography, as in my story, has been affected vastly based on the existences of God. I am a firm believer in God and the miracles and opportunity's he blesses in our lives, I believe we can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. If I didn't have this belief or optimism about God and the things he can provide for me, I might be a different person with different morals and a different point of view and life, I might grow to disrespect the people around me, my family, and myself. Due to my faith in God, I believe that I can achieve anything, that I have a purpose to be fulfilled that will impact others and that I was meant to be a righteous person in this world. The difference between my biography with the understanding of the existence of God and my biography without the understanding of the existence of God, is that God is my author, he is writing/ has wrote my story already, because I know this I am confident in where He will lead my life and I don't have to worry about writing my biography on my own.
ReplyDeleteI was raised in a Christian Baptist household. We went to church on Sundays,prayed before bed and did things that "normal" Christians did. My parents stated to me at around the age of nine that I could make a choice to go to church or not to go. I stopped going around that age and did not go again until I was about fifteen. I see church in a negative light. I do not like praying to God in front or with 100 other people. I think that just like your money and your stance on politics, your religious preferences and prayers should be kept private. God has gone from the all mighty to a celebrity that everyone fights over who knows Him more or has a better relationship with Him. I do not believe in purposeful prayer, meaning I do not ask God for things that I feel I cannot make happen for myself. I do not credit God for my success, nor do I credit God for the success of a doctor when curing a patient. I believe that God is sort of like a passerby, He is always there for us but wants us to succeed by trial and error on our own. I am not a very religious person, though I am spiritual.
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ReplyDeleteI grew up a Catholic until about the age of 6 or 7. My parents were influenced by my grandparents on my mom's side, being that they were strongly Catholic. At 7 however, my parents got divorced. My dad was out of my life for about 3 years. While he was with my mom, neither were very religious and we inconsistently went to church. When he came back in my life however, my dad had "found God". He's now an Anglican and is very strict. My mom on the other hand fell away from God. She still believes there is a God but she doesn't like organized religion. This has confused me seeing as both my parents are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Right now I would say I am deciding between Deism and Atheism. I still don't know what I am and it will definitely take some more research and self insight to figure it all out.
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