by Patricia Burke

Created on: November 02, 2010

What do you believe? I believe there has to be a God. Some call him by another name or refer to God as something like, "a higher power." But I believe in God. He is real. How could everything in the Bible that was given to us through the disciples be true? Yet, they are.Those things were written thousands and thousands of years ago and, it has come to pass. Those things that different men have interpreted. Some have said, even that. "Well, the Bible was written by a bunch of men. They could have just put their opinions down and us believe it." That could not be true, since the words in the Bible have come to pass.

If it is true, why are we even questioning it? People cannot accept the truth. They have to search and search for other things. Those are the intelligent ones, that have to understand everything in order to believe. I have known those kind of people. They will ask you a question that they know you will never be able to answer. Then try to argue with you if you let them. Too much knowledge is not good. You have to be able to accept what is true even if you do not understand it. I was raised to believe in God, but as I got older there were questions in my own mind that I wanted to be answered. I knew that people could not satisfy me. I had to find those answers myself. I started going through my Bible when I did not understand something, and looked up everything I could about the subject.

So many people interpret the Bible in different ways, therefore we have all these different denominations. Those are fine since each one, in the end, believes the same thing. That God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. After 3 days, he arose. That would be enough to make me believe. But there are still those that think this is a fairy tale or something. I believe in living the kind of life that God set out for us to live in the Ten Commandments. If we all lived like that there would be less pain not to mention other terrible things. One thing is for sure. Everyone is not what they believe. They may tell you they believe in God but their lives will not show it. That is unfortunate since the world judges us by what the other one does.

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