We Believe -

We believe - A compilation of faith statements from the year's confirmation class

I realize that this “spiritual journey” I’m on has only just begun. I don’t know where it will take me. I don’t know what the process will be like, determining who I am as a person and what I believe. But I have begun to realize the importance of the Christian faith to me and to my beliefs.
I think God is life! God helps guide you through it and will give you a grade on how you did and if you should go to heaven or hell. I don’t care where I go too much because at least I will be doing something and not lying there in the pitch black of darkness.
I used to think that God was an old guy whose presence was in the sky. I believed that he had a gray and white long beard who watched everybody. I believed that he was always looking over and doing good things for everybody and that occasionally he would do something nice for some people, just not every day. To be perfectly honest, I believed that he did good things for everybody else but me. Why was it me who had to go through tough things at such a young age? I had always hoped that one day he would do something miraculous for me, such as marrying the right person, having good kids, having a good job so that all the bad things I had had to deal with would be made up for. But then, during confirmation, I realized that that wasn’t it at all. God gives you a chance every single day to wake up in the morning and live a life. His gift to wasn’t this one time amazing thing but rather his gift to you was to live each day and that, in itself, is a miraculous thing….I think God’s intention for me was to give me tough things that he knew I could get through to make me the person I am to this day…looking back, God was always there for me….God created life for a reason.
In my opinion, God is a belief that people can look for when they might be having a hard time and need hope. This does not mean he will fix your problem, but it might make it easier for you to find a way out of your problem. I know that there are many religions that interpret God in their own way and I don’t think any of them are wrong because no one really knows for sure. I used to think God was a man with a beard in heaven, but now I fell that he is more a presence or an idea to help people in tough times.
I believe there is a God, but not one that created the earth and everything in seven days and comes down to earth to help a random person every now and then and communicates to some people on random occasions. Instead, I believe there is a God that slowly shapes the earth and the people on it, but it is left up to do what must be done and to head in the right direction and to resist evil and not commit evil.
To me, God and the basis of Christianity is an idea. The real figure I believe in is Jesus. With Jesus, there are stories in the Bible in which he filled people with hope during rough times. He could do things like feed hundreds of people and by doing so he spread that hope through the faith in God.
I am not sure even sure that I believe that Jesus existed or did what he is said to have done, but I believe that we should love and forgive.
I think Jesus was a very wise man but not the Son of God. Although I believe he was a prophet and had a great connection with God, I fell he has brought some violence into the world, which is why I believe he can’t be the Son of God.
I think of Jesus as a human piece of God that was sent here to try to help people for God when he could not. I believe that Jesus is in in a way God in a human form getting people to believe he exists so they can have more hope in life.
Before confirmation, Christianity for me was just a religion that had only helped the people who were willing to go to church every Sunday, read the whole Bible, and follow every rule it had. Now I think that Christianity helps people change their lives into something better. All the rules I thought were negative were that way because of how many Christians perceived them. Being a Christian is not about going to church every Sunday and following the rules. It is about finding the light which is inside everyone and how to become a good person who does thing not just themselves but for others as well. The Bible isn’t there to judge people who have sinned. It’s there to teach those who are looking for something to lead them through the darkness.
To me Christianity is like a ball of light with a brain in it filled with wisdom, that can’t wait to share itself with the world.
The Holy Spirit to me is some kind of idea that is used to make people holy and look at things with a different point of view than normally. This could also be a piece of someone that makes them feel closer to God which, in turn, they can give to someone else so that can also have a holy spirit.
I’m a little confused about the Holy Spirit, because it sounds like its just dead Jesus. I guess it has to with Jesus’ resurrection or something like that.
God has done a lot for me and I am constantly thinking about him and thanking him for all that he has given me. I often look to him help, for example, if I’m in a jam on the pitcher’s mound. I ask him for confidence and ask for his help to put the ball over the plate. I believe God created this planet and everything living on it.
For me, faith isn’t necessarily believing in God. Although there are a lot of important message in the Bible, faith comes from within a person. It’s about how to live a good life. One way to do that is to be nice to people. Another way is to live an active life. A final way is to be friendly.
Although I do not believe all the stories in the Bible, I believe in the message of the stories and that is what religion is about, the message. To me, the message is help people in need, love others as you love yourself, and forgive.
For me, church is a place of reflection and a way for communities to get together and connect. The church is a good way to help people because of the abundance of people who want to help.
The church is a great place to give to charities, teach the youth about religion, and remind us about what Christ is all about.
Church is a place where people can to go to believe in God and try to be close to him and try to solve issues, to pray for others or themselves to have a better life, where people can worship what they believe in private, where others can’t disturb them or tell them they don’t know what they’re doing.
At a young age, church seemed to me to be just a natural part of my schedule. I never question why I came to church almost every Sunday, probably because afterward I went to coffee hour and definitely ate way too much sugar…Over the years, however, I started to realize that I personally believed the things I heard in church and read in the Bible.
I believe in the forgiveness and forgetting of sins. I believe that the Sabbath day is a day of rest. I believe in honoring my parents and family. I believe God loves us and we cannot change that. I believe in living in the word of God. I believe in repenting my sins and placing my trust in God. I want to become a better person and leave the world a better place. I believe that this church can help me in that mission of faith self-discovery.
Lastly, what is my life all about? Well, I’m kind of young right now. I seem to feel more Jewish than Christian, but I’m still young and don’t know what path I will take. What I do know is that every religion is right, just whether you believe in it or not.
My life is pretty basic right now with school, sports, family, and some religion. I have to always look into the future and ask myself what I want to do or become in life. Part of that is figuring out what I do or don’t believe when it comes to religion. Overall I have many doubts about religion because science has been able to prove a lot more than religion. I still believe in the idea of believing in something.
Lastly, I would like to say this. Not only has this process let me look inside myself to see what I believe, but also it had made me realize that I have a church that will always be there for me. I do not simply eat the bread and drink the wine because I have to, but I do it to remember Jesus, to remember that he was crucified in honor of me to live and that I must remember him and continue in his ways.

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