Hailey Siefken: Why I Believe In God

The question of God’s existence has been pondered by humans for centuries. There are an infinite number of different opinions, arguments, and ideas favoring for or against the idea of God. Personally, I strongly believe in God not only due to my religious affiliation, but also because of my own opinions, ideas, and experience. To begin with, the complexity of Earth and the life that has formed upon it cannot be based just on luck or chance. I believe that ultimately God, as a power, rather than a mystical being is the one created and controls the universe. Although the God and his authority are not entirely comprehensible by humans, it’s our faith as worshiper that eventually lead us to a greater understanding.

With the passage of time, there also have been scriptures appearing that support the existence of God. Stories, events and many supernatural occurrences that is beyond human’s intellect. The Myths of Fire, Water, Earth and Air were famous for their supernatural existence in the Roman Era. Before the Ancient Greek religion turned into mythology, existence of God was well practiced by the Greek people. Homer, a famous Greek writer, writes in the ‘Odyssey’ about how if man does not follow the God and believe in them, then man will fall and be doomed. The Greeks were a very religious civilization. They showed that one could believe in the gods without having solid, concrete proof. Looking at this religion we can see that God does exist.

When you sit down to write an I Believe Essay, the first questions you have to ask yourself is, “What do I believe in?” It’s one of the hardest questions to answer. I for instance believe in patience, the power of seeing the big picture, and people’s power to help you become a better person. After you have figured out what you believe in, you then have to pick one of these beliefs to write about. My problem is that I couldn’t write about just one of these things. I wanted to write about all of them. I then realized what all of these beliefs have in common, a single person. I met a truly amazing person about two months ago. She’s taught me so much about life and myself. Once I saw that it became clear that the only thing I could ever truly write my essay on was her. Therefore I believe in the amazing girl who is Hannah Bourque.

In Tara Isabella Burton’s “Study Theology Even if You Don’t Believe in God,” she contends the study of theology forces us to look at other perspectives, and history resulting in more empathetic individuals. David Foster Wallace impacts this premise of Burton’s argument in his commencement speech, “This is Water”. He argues that empathy, or being aware of other’s perspectives is the driving force behind success. Without empathy, we would be stuck in our “default setting” or the belief that the world revolves around us ( ). According to Wallace, this would be problematic because it limits freedom and knowledge. By freedom, Wallace is not talking about rights rather he describes that “the really important kind of freedom involves attention

Tears poured down my face like I was in a rain forest, hugged my mom tightly as if she was a cuddly stuffed animal and I prayed, prayed like I’ve never prayed before. Not really knowing what was going on or what was going to happen. My sister arrived home, followed by my dad shortly after. While we waited to hear back from the hospital, we sat on the couch in the living room bawling our eyes out probably. Don’t worry, I will tell you about what is going on.

At the hospital the doctor got right to work trying to fix his head.Minute after minute they frantically worked trying to fix his head. After an hour and a half the doctor came out to talk to my grandma.

We went to ER and got to see a baby get drawn from his arm the parents were upset because it was the second time they had to draw his blood. The dad stepped out and the mom stayed and helped hold the baby down. There was a patient with shingles that I only got to see from outside but the phlebotomist showed

For my book review I chose The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. I have read this book before, but I wanted to go through again, summarize and analyze it. The purpose of this paper will be to summarize The Reason for God and analyze it’s writing style and arguments. The Reason for God defends knowledge of God and is naturally an apologetic work. Interestingly enough though, it reads more like a pastoral than it does an apologetic work.

Much to my disappointment the baby hadn 't been born yet, and my sister-in-law, was still in the beginning stages of labor, and it could be hours, or even days before she gave birth. We stayed at the hospital all day in hopes that the baby might be born. We mostly wandered around because my sister-in-law understandably wanted to be left alone, for the majority of the day. We went to the gift shop, and the cafeteria, but mostly just aimlessly walked around, awaiting news. News never came, and soon enough we were forced out of the hospital, because visiting hours were over.

I believe that God created the universe and created mankind as his children. We were shown his ultimate love even after we sinned in the Garden of Eden by sending his only son to earth to atone for mankind’s sins. The Holy Bible is the word of God and is illustration of his love for us. When all the evidence of Christ’s death and resurrection and things that have transpired through out the Bible how can one not believe? Our heavenly father and his love are evident through out the world and nature around us. This is why I have strong faith that there is a God and a supreme creator of

On January 3rd, 2008 a very cold winter day my water bag broke as I grab my bags and get ready to head to the hospital with so many mixed emotions happy,scared, sad and overwhelmed as we arrive at Cypress hospital in Houston,Tx at 9:30 am they quickly give us a room in the labor and delivery as we wait for our son to enter the world hours pass by and still nothing no baby almost 10 hours of waiting for our son his heart rate was dropping Dr.Castillo came in to inform us that I was needing an emergency c-section to get the baby out as soon as possible as we prepare to go into surgery a nurse walk in to give me anaesthesia and procedures that will happen during surgery I'm filled with so much nerves of the unknown praying my son comes out fine

““Do as I do: trust in God and yourself. Believe in heaven”” (342). As I read this sentence in the novel, I felt it stood as a strong representation of what may have helped Jane when she struggled with difficulties in her life. She did not live the easiest life, so I believe the overall idea of God and Christianity gave her some hope. There wasn’t a time, excluding her marriage to Rochester, where she was 100 percent happy with the way she was living. Growing up, Jane lived with her evil Aunt who then sent her to the Lowood School. Although she may not have realized it at the time, there was always something providing her with strength, sometimes giving her the courage to do certain things. The idea of God was often brought up and served as

When I was 6 years old, I started having medical problems and went to many doctors but none of them knew my diagnosis. As I started getting worse, I was referred to go to the Children's Hospital in Madison. Right when we got there, the doctor immediately put me in a hospital

a) Christians believe many different things about God’s nature; due to the huge spectrum of Christians that there are. However, as a general rule they perceive God as being one of the following four things:

Whether god exists or not has been in discussion for thousands of years, and an important discussion. Whether it is rational to believe in god or not is another story, like believing in god itself, this topic has brought many discussions. It is one thing to discuss whether god is real or not and it is a complete other to discuss whether it is rational to believe in god or not. I believe that while there may not be any convincing evidence or arguments that God does exist, I do still believe that it is still rational to believe that god does exist. I think this because, believing in God is not simply just believing that he exists, but believing that it can bring good to our lives, we otherwise would not have. It teaches us to have a moral