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Personal Statement of Belief in God
Alex Tran

01/18/2014

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Personal Statement of Belief in God

As I stated in the last personal statement of belief in Bible paper, it is not easy to

understand and believe in another religion for a short time learning it. Each person will have a different opinions and different ways thinking of another religion, and they have the right to do that. Even I am a Buddhist, I am still respect to all the religious over the world, maybe some of them is not good as I can see the things that they did. Since I attended at a Christian school for two years, I’ve been received many request to be a Christian, yes, being a Christian is a good thing, not talking about the spiritual things, God’s words guided us toward a good person in the social life and also have the strength to help ourselves. There is always a big question in my mind is “Who created the universe?”, and the first answer in my mind is God, but how would you prove it?, as I learned about the history of Buddha, He has a beginning and ending in a physical way, and He found the only one is permanent is Nirvana which he succeeded; otherwise, again, who created all things?. There are many things and the evidences from those things against the things that I’ve learned in Bible class, especially the reincarnation, and spirituality between the views of Buddhism and Christianity. You and my friends might not know about things that I knew, I would love to share it to you but I do not think my english is good enough to present about the things that I knew both physically and spirituality. At this point, I am really confused. I do not have the answers for my questions and I do not see the logical in both religious that I know which is Buddhism and Christianity. I hope you can understand what I am saying here, and also understand my situation why I do not believe in God.

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