Personal Narrative: I Was Raised Extremely Conservative Christian

In my youth, my family used to go to church every Sunday, and also had me go to Sunday school. The statement, “Have you read this book of the Bible before? I never fully read the Bible, because “they” picked out what “they” wanted to be taught. They give us passages to remember such as, “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.” (Isaiah 42:16), but never, “Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.” (Leviticus 19:19). I never truly sat down, and read the Bible. Even, when I was the chapman for my first aid squad, I just would pick out any passages I felt like reading, or googled “good passages in the bible” and read off of them. My interpretation about the Bible and the problem I feel about the Bible, it is not a “text”, and not a book, I do not know, what you would call the Bible. In the Bible, you can pick and choose where ever you want to start. The Bible can pamper to everyone one needs, good and bad. So is the Bible “Malum in se”. If you fully read the Bible such as verses with Deuteronomy, his verses about disobeying parents, worshipping a different god, women who are not a virgin, and among others are evil (in to day standers). Hell, lets stone 95% of Americans. The problem is the Bible, is written thousands of years ago, with these people old time views.

Since I was a child, I loved making friends. Whenever I saw someone new, I would run up to them and immediately become best friends with them. As I grew up, I recall some occasions when I felt left out. I remember being so sad that they wouldn't include me. From that day on, I made a commitment to make everyone feel involved because that feeling of being left out was one of the worst feelings a young boy/girl could ever have.

They practiced practical Christianity and help all night bible studies that I was required to go to every month. These people practiced dress reform, veganism and abstain from wordly entertainment. Being in that environment, surrounded by those people, I was protected. Nothing from the out side could get to me. I wasn’t allowed to use the internet freely, we had daily family worships where everyone had to learn a new verse everyday and we changed our diet and style of dress. I thought that I believed it. I thought that I was in it for the long haul. However, when I graduated High School (homeschooled 10th-12th) and went to Southern, I was exposed to everything and basically stopped doing everything that I was doing at home. I realized that I did all those things because my parents didn’t give me a choice and it was tradition. My parents we’re having a real and thriving relationship with Jesus while I was just following them. I was full of biblical information, I knew verses and theories and spirit of prophecy passages but I still don’t know God. I know that God will take care of us and that he guides us and I know all these promises but I don’t have any real

I am an atheist, but it wasn't always that way. My entire life there was a constant pressure on me to accept that there was a supreme being that created all. Even at a young age I couldn’t bring myself to fully believe this. I continued grasping for straws because, just like every other religious person, I was scared of the “consequences” that would come with not believing. My Non-Denominational Christian Church promoted telling this to everyone, even children.

A lesson that I have learned the hard way is that people will let you down, but God never will. Another important aspect for a foundation of a biblical worldview is in human relationships. From the beginning God intended for man to interact and be fruitful with one another in harmonious relationships (Genesis 2:18, New Living Testament). But when man fell into sin, it brought about every manner of

Although we did not regularly attend church, I was introduced to the Christian faith as a child and hold those values. I was raised by my grandparents as my father left my mother before I was born and life’s

When God created the heavens and the Earth there was no sin, no chaos, no conflict, and no pain. It was not until the serpent tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit that sin began and caused heartache for God. In Romans 14:23: “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” Anything that you do that isn’t done as a direct act of faith in God is sin. In Romans 14:23, to know to do right and not do it is sin. The loss of my wonderful parents was difficult for me as they were in their early 60’s. Both of my parents taught my sister and me how to love one another and be good servants of the Lord. After their passing, I became jealous of friends and family that are blessed to have both or at least one of their parents that they could love, laugh

I can certainly see how one would think the Bible is a set of rules to live by; making them a better person and giving examples on how to handle some situations. The Bible does contain both of those things but it is also so much more that is hard to grasp unless you’ve had help understanding just what the Bible is. It’s difficult to look at, or even know you need to look at, the Bible as more than 66 short stories grouped together unless someone has helped you see that it is more than that. I would first ask my friend, if I did not already know, if they enjoyed reading series of novels. If they say yes, I would start with that as an example. You can pick up any one book in a series and it can stand alone as enjoyable reading, but you will not have the whole story if you started in book five. The Bible is the same and to gain the most from reading it, you need to understand that it is one story with many characters and many twists and turns throughout, and the main character is God. “Through each person, law, psalm, proverb, or prophecy, God is drawing attention to himself and what he is doing as he works out his plan”, and we are not even a supporting character (Cartwright & Hulshof, 2016).

Many people may interpret the Bible and the stories within it in a great deal of different ways. Some people may be absorbed in a story and completely make sense of it. This could possibly be in a completely different way then you did. When this takes place some people may be on edge about being judged for their own thoughts and opinions. This may cause your way of thinking on the meanings for each and every story to sway in a different directions to a certain extent.

I was ten years old when I attended the church for the first time. From this time onward, I never had to fear that my father might come home drunk, and create disharmony in the family. Everything started happening just the opposite. He became a God-fearing man. He taught us to love God, pray to God, and follow the instructions from the words of God. My parents raised my siblings and me by providing us a godly home. Daily family devotional time, scripture reading, attending Sunday school, and worship service every week became our family

Today, radical misconception believe that they finally are in reach to dominate the world by intimidation, heresy, apostasy, and half-truths. They see Christians as not tolerant, arrogant, close minded, and out of modernism. These people are rejecting any type of moral values, saying that they have found understanding or have understood what religion truly is based on their reasoning, thoughts, feelings, and inclinations. However, your story fits perfectly in this scenario of hope to this dying world. The same way your parents and grandparents valued morality, peace, freedom, knowledge, human rights by not compromising the true Gospel and planting that seed on you. For this reason, your family is the perfect model by which

I grew up in a very intolerant religion filled with many loving and good-hearted people. This religion was founded with racist, homophobic, and sexist doctrines that my family and I grew up believing and not quite understanding. A few years ago, my mother told us that she no longer believed in this religion and would be officially resigning in the coming months. I grew curious as to why my mother—who would force me into my Sunday best for three hours of church every week—wanted to leave. I discovered the harsh past of this church, and I began to realize, that I was a part of a cult. Everyday I would go to some church activity, after ending my day at the job I got through the church, and I met up with my fiancé, who, you guessed it, was a part

During elementary school I decided I wanted to move in with my father who did attend church religiously every Sunday morning. Catholic mass was awful and difficult to understand. My father put my brothers and I through communion and made us participate in church bible study to further understand the religion. As I got older my views on Catholicism had gotten worse, I started hating going to church. When the nuns called my age group to have children’s church my father forced me to go, they took us to a room that had no windows and was always cold. The nuns made us read the old testament in the King James Bible version and I always had a hard time reading and understanding it because of the way it was written. This experience made me hate and

Fortunately, my father did question the literal teachings of my childhood church. His being raised in a “God-fearing” Pentecostal environment, yet not attending worship services, I asked why. He did not interfere with what I was learning, but through discussions with him, I became aware of his philosophy. He explained to me how attending church services were beneficial to those seeking

In my later teen years, I moved to the United Kingdom and lived with my mother’s brother and his family. My new family was not a church going family and