I have many ideas about god and who he means to me, but there is no other image that strikes me more positively than God being the one who has created the earth and all its inhabitants, and through all this blunder took the time to create me and allow me to have life and experience all that there is to experience in this world. God to me the awesome father figure who watches over us all to make sure that we are all under his wing and follow in the ways of his son, Jesus Christ. It is through his example that we can get closer to God and ultimately be with him in heaven. I do not know when I first began to believe in God but I assume that my parents were the first to introduce me to the belief. In the above statement I outlined my most striking image of God, but for the longest time I have not thought of him in this way, I have lost some of my faith. I am not sure why except that in the past three years I began to examine other ideas on how we might have come to be and how we are going to end. This does not mean that I do not believe in the presence of God I just have a big problem with blind faith. For some reason I cannot trust in the fact that there is truly a god and he created the earth and all that lives on it. My ideas are based on the scientific evidence that has been present for years, which are bases for theories on our creation and the evolution of life on this planet. With all that we know about the earth today and how evolution works I have problems with my faith. Do I truly know if there is a god of not? No. But for the sake of myself and the rest of the world I truly hope so. I believe that deep in my heart lies my faith and my mind needs some sign to let me know that there is a God and he watches over us. Within these hopes and believes I have another ideology, and that is my take death. I have never truly sat down for hours at a time and pondered death and what it is all about and why it happens, but there have been ti...
