My Christianity Research Paper

I have always believed in God and had known for a long time that I wanted to be confirmed. Going through the middle school classes was a fun way to learn about God and talk to people my age who go to my church, but high school classes were a lot different. Middle school was filled with fun games and movies, but high school classes were slow and filled with flipping through Bible's and answering questions.

My experience with Christianity began in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Helena’s in South Minneapolis. I grew up a die-hard; attending every week with my mother and sister. I never understood the concept of God, Jesus and the Holy

In this paper, I am going to share my ideas of theology. I believe that one of the biggest mistakes I made in the past was that I was afraid of being rejected, so I wrote a theology paper and tried to give the previous COM what I thought they wanted to hear instead of what was truly inside of me. Fortunately for me, even though I was not given a green light in order to see the Eccleastical Council, I was licensed to preach and this gave me time

“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.” I got that quote from Mere Christianity. God is omnipotent and He is all- powerful. He knows and sees everything, God is unlike Santa Claus, God is something to really believe in. God has given C.S. Lewis a very intriguing way to spread his word. Mere Christianity has many ideas on faith and truth that helps my walk with the Lord.

Growing up I always lived in a religious household. We always prayed before we ate, prayed before we went to bed, and always went to church on Sunday and Wednesday night. While I never questioned these actions and never tried to rebel against them, I still didn’t understand the importance of them either. I was merely walking in my parents footsteps, doing what my parents told me, singing along to the children’s songs in Sunday school, gave a tithing of my allowance every Sunday, but my life was void of the real meanings of my actions. This went on for years. Because I had not yet read through the Bible to understand why these actions had any meaning, they were just things I did all the time and I thought that was normal and that was what it meant to be a Christian.

Over 2.4 billion people around the world believe in the Christian religion. For some it is a river of faith, but there are many branches to Christianity. Jesus Christ in Judea (present day Israel) started Christianity about 2000 years ago. Jesus was initially Jewish and he lived in an area that was under Roman rule. This Roman rules posed a big problem for the Jews due to the polytheistic cultural beliefs the Romans had. This is when Jesus Christ played a major role in the development of Christianity. Jesus traveled from village to village, teaching in the various synagogues and healing those who were suffering. This teaching was revolutionary, he challenged the already established Roman religious authorities to repent from their self-righteousness and hypocrisy and realize

In my youth, I believed in God, prayed to Him, and appreciated His apparent love for me, but there was no substance to my faith because I had a considerably vague understanding of my sins. I did not comprehend my need for forgiveness, nor was I told that I need to confess my sins to Christ and acknowledge Him as my Lord and Savior to have a personal relationship with Him. As I entered the fifth-grade, I was presented with and accepted the gospel in our high school gymnasium. I still had a rather vague understanding of my need for a Savior. Over time, however, I began to grow in recognition of my transgression and experienced a gradual increase in the size of the cross. I began to see God as a friend who loved me and overlooked my sins past, present, and future through the penalty paid by Christ’s death on the cross. While this explanation of the gospel is true, it was incomplete and lead to compromise in my

Sources for Christian belief are those things that deliver information about God and act as vehicles for what God reveals. Norms are standards by which any information is tested to be accurate and true. Charles Wesley describes these sources and norms for Christian belief as Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience.1 Although he was not the first, what he articulated came to be known as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. To sum this up, Christians believe in many things for a wide variety of reasons and the importance of sources and norms are vehicles to a Christian’s way of thinking in what to belief in and for what reason. Basically making sense to a Christian’s thought and views. Like a four-legged stool with each source and norm, uphold the

I had to start thinking about everything I did and how I would effect others and how they would view me. We had just left Macomb when I started to feel the pressures of what was to come back at home. Chores, work, end of the summer, balancing my life and just adding one more thing to the mix. Sin is what I was thinking about, and I can honestly say I had a problem with lying. It was hot on the bus because 50 kids were on there talking and having a good time. When I was thinking everyone else could see that I was acting differently. While they were having a good time and playing around I had diverged and was quiet. Blaine one of my friends asked me what was up and I said nothing which was a lie. James then asked me a bit later what was wrong and I once again said nothing, yet another lie. It was until Justin and Jeff who were youth sponsors asked me what was going on before I told anyone how I was feeling. I told them that I was feeling good that Jesus loves me even with my mistakes, but what if I fail again? What if I don’t live up to the standards of the Christian lifestyle? This was one of many doubts that would go through my head, and yet I had to figure out a way to live with

Many young children are always asked what the want to be when they grow up. Some answer with cute remarks of a princess or dog trainer, and there are other that answer seriously with fireman or teacher. I have even gotten an answer of “underwear” from a troublemaker. However, the child response, we can know they have dreams, and plan on achieving them. I was alway the child to respond with the remark of being a teacher, writer, or lifeguard. Most of my job goals have been met or I am working to achieve. Here at Dordt, I have been able to expand on my knowledge of what it means to be a teacher, and I have some idea on how I want to run my classroom.

I grew up in a christian house hold all my life, I went to church twice a week and that's not counting bible studies. I go baptized when I was six and then we moved to florida, And then we started having family problems. I don't think I took my relationship with God seriously until a couple years ago.

The start of my sophomore year consisted of attending two youth group meetings and then none. Life began to take place and I had made no effort to attend Sunday service. The more I grew the more open my mind became towards my faith. I am catholic and I feel

Christianity a religion based on the teaching of Jesus and its beliefs and practices Christianity is a religion that's that started in Israel a country in Africa but it spread through to the world when the messiah or the son of god came to earth and died on the cross for us and this religion Christianity has spread out all over the world and now it's practiced all over the world people practise Christianity, not because of its popularity but because god changes their life helps them become better people and better person

Christianity is a very developed religion and it resides mainly in the Western Culture. Followers up to 2 billion with a continuous rise as the world population grows. “Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Protestant Churches are the largest groups” (Stefon et al) known to Christianity. The life of Jesus and his teachings is the base of this religion. Jesus taught the way of God, whom is the creator of all and the father of Jesus. He taught the people that living their lives in a certain manner, would end with eternal life after you have died. Jesus and his guidance was becoming notorious; however, The Roman Government and Jewish leaders showed vast disapproval. Thus, leading to the crucifixion of Jesus where he was executed upon the cross. Christians believe that 3 days after Jesus died he rose from the dead; therefore, giving the chance to his believers to live eternal life after death. “Christianity is more than just a religious belief. It also has generated a culture, a set of ideas and ways if life, practices, and artifacts that have been handed down from generation to generation since Jesus became the object of faith” (Stefon et al). Christianity is appealing to me for the fact of knowing one man sacrificed himself for the good and eternal life of all the people is one hell of a sacrifice and I admire that. I admire most that you will always be given the chance to have you sins forgiven.

Throughout this Theology II class, I found myself thinking and learning more about my religion than I have ever before. Since I had twelve years of Catholic school I thought I knew mostly everything there was about religion, yet, this class challenged my understanding of things I thought I had a grasp of. Things such as contingent and necessary beings, revelation, the Church on homosexuals, Jesus’ life, the sacraments, spirituality, what a Jesuit is, who Ignatius is, what Laudato Si is, and what morality is; these are just are just to name a few that have transformed my idea of theology in this new age.