Personal Reflection

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1. Define the term God based on your background experiences, formal education, and personal reflection.
The term God is a spirit or higher power being that is worshipped by people throughout the world. There is not only one type of God; there are many different types of Gods that vary within each religion. The God or Gods within each religion are thought to have created human beings and the universe we live in. 2. Do you believe that God, as you defined that term above, exists? Briefly provide some experience and reasoning for your position.
I do believe that there is some sort of spiritual, higher being but I do not believe that this higher being has created us human beings or the universe we exist in. When I was younger I was brought up …show more content…

A person can be “spiritual” without having any formal affiliation with a traditional, institutional religion. There are many ways to be spiritual without a belief in a God. A few ways to be spiritual are to be conscious of the people around us and conscious our inner selves. Being able to love the people around us is important, but if that isn’t possible be able to tolerate them. Not only should we make better connections with the people around us, we should be able to make connections with our inner selves. Our ultimate goal in life is to be happy and throughout our life times we should do things that we love to do. We should take time out of our work day to do something that allows us to love life and relax whether it is going on an adventure or reading a book, if it makes us happy we should do it. Also, we should take time out of our day to reflect on life and to connect with ourselves. This could be achieved by simply mediating. All there is to do to achieve this is to sit for 15 minutes and quiet your thoughts. There are ways to be spiritual without a belief in a personal God.

5. Are moral values (right and wrong, good and bad) justified on the basis of religion or are they justified on the basis of something other than religion?
Moral values are justified on both the basis of religion and the basis of something other than religion. Every religion has some type of moral values that people …show more content…

Both religion and science are theories. They both explain how the entire universe and we came to exist. Believing in scientific theories is similar to believing in a religion. Religion and science stay separate and cover their own area, but when they are put together you get a “theory of everything.” When they are put together you have practical theories and spiritual theories. Religion and science definitely complement each other because science is not able to prove that a higher power, spiritual being doesn’t exist and religion is there to fill in what science has not been able to

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