Personal Statement On Personal Religion

A strong family life, faith, and ambition characterize my development. A lot of who I am now can be attributed to the manner in which my parents raised me. I grew up in a devout Mormon household, so from a young age my parents instilled values of love, honesty, and kindness.

The term spirituality comes from the word, spirit, and a suffix -uality. Spirit has a general meaning of entity or life force, which is not physical. Spirituality thus means anything that has a relationship with spirit and its features or qualities. However, spirituality in human beings has two main components a primary component, spirit and human entities, that is, will and conscience. Spirituality in human beings is what leads to other desirable and undesirable qualities such as integrity and selfishness respectively. It is the only way in which human beings gain hope, comfort, inner peace, and meaning in their lives. Spirituality has been wrongly associated with religion since time immemorial. To me, spirituality is more than what we can simply call religion or faith. Religious beliefs are made of individual spirituality, which are mostly universal. Spirituality is developed outside religion itself.

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

Patti warned me that the members of the church do not interact with each other very much, and that they weren’t necessarily friendly. This did not seem to be the case today, as many of the “sisters” came over to speak to Patti, and to “meet” her friend.

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen./ and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages, light of light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father, by whom all things where made…

In contrast, for a soul to enter heaven in Dante’s Inferno one had to have repented for every sin and therefore be in a perfect stance with God. In addition, Dante’s hell is eternal. This is also consistent with Catholic beliefs. In Virgil’s hell, one could escape torture and return to earth by suffering for 1000

My parents and members of the community where I lived growing up all went to a Catholic church and I identify with the Catholic branch of Christianity. However,

When a person envisions Hell, they are likely to picture fire, suffering, and pain, all constituting a place one doesn’t want to visit. Dante Alighieri wrote Inferno because he felt betrayed by the political corruption of both Florence and the Papacy that resulted in his exile from Florence. When Inferno, along with the rest of The Divine Comedy, was published, the image of Hell that Dante conjured was so frightening that people became more anxious about their eternal fate in the afterlife. Inferno’s cruel yet fitting punishments, known as contrapasso, are placed onto Dante’s organized levels of sinners to show that all sins have consequences. Dante’s Inferno ironically gave the Catholic Church more power over its followers due to the depictions of Hell that he created in retaliation against the Church itself.

In the first place, Christians of the new and old age primarily believe that after death their souls live on in the grace of God's presence. For example, in the Bible it states, “Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies.”’ In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is shunned by God’s grace and is trying to find his way back. In the concluding lines of inferno; “...and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars. And we walked out once more beneath the Stars” (Alighieri 287). These last words represent Dante climbing out of the nightmare he called Hell and he is gazing upon the beautiful stars of Heaven. Which represents a sense of hope as if his sins are forgiven. Heaven and hell in the Bible have a rather vague description of the details embedded in the experience you will face in the afterlife. All that is very well known and established is Heaven is a place of light and God's love and Hell is the land in which you experience eternal suffering for your sins. These loose interpretations of hell are greatly represented in Inferno because Dante takes these thoughts and roughly based Christian ideology of the after life into his own “Visions of Hell” Henceforth, the Christian faith and ideas are the base to many other religions. Dante’s Inferno a like Christianity has multiple representations of faith including an abundance of Christian Beliefs.

Hell. The word conjures up a familiar image of a fiery landscape, a nightmare vision where tortured souls suffer in endless, unspeakable torment, and where Satan commands an army of demons to unleash infinite pain across multitudes of sinners. This picture, etched deeply as it is in the minds of over two billion Christians worldwide, mainly stems from the late Rabbinical Judaism view of hell, Gehenna. Dante’s epic poem, Inferno, builds on Gehenna, with an elaborate underground society devoted to the souls of the fallen.

When Looking at the early Christian church we must also look at the surroundings of these people and the religions of the people living mixed in with the Christians at the time. What was hell like to people of the Roman religions or mystery religions. The religious mythology of the Roman people stems from Greek mythology. Everyone knows that hell for the Romans was the underworld, there are many Roman legends that deal with the underworld and their deity similar to Hades. The Romans called Hades, Pluto. Pluto was the ruler of the underworld. He is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. The story goes that these three brothers defeated their father, Cronus, and the Titans, the twelve primeval deities, and split the rule of the sky, sea, and underworld.

My code is very simple, the thing I base my life around is, kindness. I believe in showing kindness and respect to everyone around me. Being kind will always have a positive effect on myself and others. Being kind can brighten up everyone’s day and bring a sense of positivity in a world that likes to focus on the negative. It is the thing which I believe in the most out of everything.

I am a Christian and I believe in the Holy trinity: God, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

     Heaven is the place where true peace is always felt. True peace can sometimes be felt on earth, but not understood by the human mind. The mind can only comprehend true peace once in heaven. There will never be peace on earth due to the various forms of corruption. Earth has both forces of good and evil influencing the billions of people that live. In heaven only pure good resides. Heaven cannot be corrupted by evil. With God in control the outside sources cannot influence the forces in heaven.

What religion am I? In my life, I have been told many things about my religion. My mother is a Roman Catholic, while my father is Jewish. I have learned about both religions, and I have tried to practice both as best I could, but I am now faced with the decision; which one am I?