Gentlemen,
Greetings from Rome! All is well here--lots of meetings!
I hope you are well. Thank you to those who have did their last blog entry. Please inform your fellow classmates who DID NOT do their homework that I am checking blogs and putting grades in.
Here are the Instructions and Homework for Wednesday:
This week’s homework assignments are a set of reflection questions. These questions challenge you to look more deeply at your relationship with / understanding of God. Please answer each set of questions on the assigned day. Your responses should be thoughtful (5 - 7 sentences minimum).
There will be two questions each day.
If you have any trouble posting your answers on the blog, simply email me your responses!
QUESTIONS FOR WEDNESDAY:
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
49 comments:
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
the difficult thing that i have trouble understanding god is why he can't stop all the promblems in the world. why can't he answer all my prayers, and why he encourged the israelites to go to war. these are the thimgs i have a trouble time in believing god.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
i think if there was less war and more peace, or if there is less poverty because i know that he answered my prayers. or if god gave me a reason why he can't help everybody.
1. What is difficult for me about believing or understanding God is wondering whether He is real or not. It is difficult for me because I think things happen for a reason, and not that God did this for a purpose. If God created Hurricane Katrina, why so? To cause destruction? Or to bring us together, only when it calls to us?
2. I think would help me believe in God more would to stop all this violence going on in the world to set a better example for others. Lastly, to make everyone stop bringing each down.
1. I think my belief problem in god is that I can't see him physical it has to be mentally put in my mind to serve something thats not there. But I understand God more so than believing in him. I read the bible more often so I dont have that problem anymore. 2. I think reading the miracles of Jesus christ and the teachings in the bible would help with understanding.
1. The difficult things that i have believing in God or understanding him, is that why doesn't he stop all the bad things in the world. People pay and he doesn't answer them. i personally don't want anymore war, and most important hate. There will always be hate.
2. If everybody was treated equally kindly and no more suffering. Although i don't believe God answers everything just like that. You personally have to play a part in it. It's 50/50. If you do what's best for you and for the people and do what he wants you to do he will do the rest and give you what you want.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God
Its difficult because their is so much death in the world. Also because if God were here wouldn't he make everyone the same. By that I mean their wouldn't be any blind or deaf people. Another thing is why we kill each other.Its very difficult because we die.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
If God were to come to earth. Like he comes and shows himself to us. Or if he can talk to us directly. Maybe if he could have us go to heaven then back to earth. One last thing if he can stop the hate in he world.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Why he lets there continue to be evil in the world is difficult for me to understand God. He doesn't always answer my prayers, even if it is a prayer that will help others out too. A lot of people suffer everyday and he does nothing. Also what makes it difficult for me to believe and understand in God is how was he created?
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
If God were to talk to me more often personally, that would help me understand and believe in him a lot more. If he were to make the world a nicer and betetr place to be would also help. If he answered my prayers. If he answered all out questions, that would help us understand him more.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Answer: There are a lot of things that are difficult. Honestly, it's just so confusing. I would have to read the Bible more. Most of the verses are so confusing. Sometimes, it's actually boring.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Answer: There would be lots of things to help me. I could just go online and find something to help me. I could ask someone else to help me. Another thing that will help me would be to ignore all distractions. Distractions are what make it more difficult.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Answer: The thing that is difficult for me to understand about God is that why are the most innocent people killed or the best person in the world that each person meets has to die. There has been many things that has caused innocent deaths like war or just assassination. Innocent people die almost everyday if its not from war its from diseases. Even people who never did anything bad in their life get deadly diseases and I do not know why God just wipes them away from those who are innocent. That is what is difficult for me about understanding God.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Answer: What would help me understand God better is that maybe one day God can give me a sign of why He lets innocent people get deadly diseases. If God gives me a sign in my dream or while I am daydreaming or something then maybe I will understand God better. Another thing that would help me understand Him is that if he shows me that all those innocent people who died are in Heaven with Him. Or he can show me how happy they are now and they are not suffering anymore from deadly diseases or from being tortured. That is what would help me understand God better.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
I think it is that we can't actually see him. We cannot hear him when we pray. God does not always give us what we want. All we can do is trust that he is there.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
I think if we got a message from him every month or so through someone important everyone can trust that he is watching us and people my do more good. If there could be a special time during prayer where people drift off into their own mind and have a small appointment with God that he can hear people would believe.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The difficult thing i have understanding God is why does he let all these evil things happen.Also why is there so many people living out in the street.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
I would understand him better if he would stop all the fighting/evil in the world.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
1)the thing that is difficult about believing in God is that he does not answer every single prayer we give him and he is not visible but still he is everywhere.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
2)I think peace in the world throughout all nations.
I also believe that a world without sin but again the bible says that the world will end when the world is perfect.
1) The difficult thing about believing in God is that I have not seen, or think I have not seen something miraculous. I do not know if I will ever see something miraculous happen, but I need to forget about it. Another thing that is hard to understand is heaven. I do not remember anything from before I was born, so how am I supposed to live eternally if I will not remember anything after death?
2) A miracle of some sorts will definitely make me believe in God. But aside from that, I just need to be thankful for my blessings, then I will realize that God is true. I would also believe if I could talk to him occasionally.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Sometimes when everything is going wrong in my life i blame and doubt God if he has time for me. Sometimes its hard to have faith in him when there are so many others who doubt him. Sometimes i feel like i should just give up but i dont and i remain faithful so that one day i may be with him forever.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better? If i have a vision or maybe some proof God really does exist i trust in my faith but i just think if i had some proof i would sleep a little easy at night i would be a little happy and i will know what i am doing is not a waste of time.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
What is difficult for me to about believing or understanding in God is that he went 40 days without eating for lent, and for him healing that girl when she was sick and about to die. This is hard for me to believe in this because I dont know is anybody can do that, I cant even do that for a day. With all do respect, I cant believe that God healed the girl, because if he cant help people with little problems how could he heal a girl. I know it's my life and my life ends up how I want it to be, but all im saying is for God to help me a little.
2) What whould help you believe in/ understand God better?
What would help me believe or understand in God better is if he helped people that are having a hard time in life. Like the homeless people, God could give homeless people food and shelther. He could help people at war and the family's that have family members in war, and they could come back home and God could stop the war. Last God could help people who have gotten kidnapped and the people who's family members have gotten kidnapped.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
That you cannot see him. There was only sightings of him about 200 years ago. I know that requires faith, but i would like a God that can be on earth as a human being but an immortal. So he can have his praise on earth and not where people have o think and have alot of faith to have a prayer sent to God. What person does not want people at their feet and [raising them?
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
A sign of some sort. Something that would prove to me that he is real. To understand what it is for a God to be or do for his people.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
1A: I think its hard for me to understand God. I think its hard for me because sometimes God introduces weird stuff to me sometimes and i question why he introduces them to me. Also when God does something bad to me i question why he does it but i try my best to understand why he did this to me.
2) What would help you believe in/ understand God better?
2A: I think i will understand God more by learning some more about God. Also i think i will understand him more by me going to mass more often. Also i think i will understand him more if he will give me explanations at the end of it all.
1) I Think the most difficult thing about believing or understanding God is if he really hears or understands out situation. I do not think that God can really hear us i believe in him but bi also believe that talking to God is a metaphor. Also its hard to believe that God helps us in life because if he created us all equal than why are there homeless people, crazy people or even poor people who need help.
2) I think that a miracle to happen for me to believe in him. Also maybe if the things in the world go better. I think that is what would help me believe in God.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
the thing that is more difficult for me to understand the way he works. i dont really understand why he cant be plain out there and tell us what we have to do. i also doubt the creation story because of science.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
i think the only way that i can fully understand the way God works is by actually meeting him. until then all i can do is pray to hgim that he makes himself a little bit more clearer. the creation story because i dont understand evolution even though God made man.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
A: What is diffucult for me is that if God is the one who wants the world to be peaceful , was does he let things like injureys, death, hurt, pain, people who are homeless. Why dosent he fix peoples problems, let people start fresh. Why dosent he cure the sickness of cancer and make peoples life good and enjoyable, so no human wants to committe suiucide or hate life. These things make sometimes difficult beliving in God, even though i know he is there.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
A: What would help me believe more in God is to see sinificant change. Cure the sick, help the poor and make life easier and with less strugle. If there is change in the world that is not benifitial to humans, have that not come so fast to where peoples lives change from wealthy to poor. Or to where people keep their lives longer without the experience of murder or car accidents. to make the world a better place even though use as the people make these decisions
help and guide us.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Whats so difficult about believing and understanding God is that you cant see him and he hasn't done very much for people, such as actually helping them instead of giving them *spiritual* guidance. Even if we still believe in him, everything we do can be made a sin such as, just thinking about wanting something someone else has, but not stealing at all. In fact that actually helps businesses sell there products to consumers. Another one that no one likes is death, everyone dies yet too young or tragically such as murder, rape,ect. One last point is that God loves us all according to the sacred scriptures and that he is all forgiving,but has a place for those who did not believe in him where they can suffer forever, I don't think that's so loving to all.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
What could help me believe in him more is actually seeing him or getting a special sign from him. One other one is that people should not die so terribly only by old age. What can help us understand him more is if he didn't send people to hell, because no one deserves to suffer forever. Lastly, Is if he gave us reasons on how we can not help everyone.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God.
The only thing that I don't understand about God is we cant see him so people say he is not real. Another reason was he has all this power but he lets the world have so many problems. He lets all these horrible thing happen to us.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
If God was visible and he came down to talk to us about how believing in him is important.If there were less war and more peace we will be next to God and we all will believe in them.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The difficult thing that I have trouble believing in God is that why can't God come dow to earth to save all his people? Why can't God stop the world from all the madness that is happening.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Something that helps me believe in God better is knowing that he will always be with me at any moment. To realize that God will never leave me. Also, if God would come to earth to save us from all the sinners that roam around.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
A) How someone's life can be taken in a blink of an eye. I say this because I know people who lived by the bible and died at such an early age. I also dont understand how God can work in mysterious ways.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
A) If people would just live by the Bible maybe things will be a lot easier for the world.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
A) How someone's life can be taken in a blink of an eye. I say this because I know people who lived by the bible and died at such an early age. I also dont understand how God can work in mysterious ways.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
A) If people would just live by the Bible maybe things will be a lot easier for the world.
1)The trouble I have believing in God is that I cannot actually see him or talk to him. People say that he will always be with you in your heart or prayer but when I have a problem there is no one there to answer my prayer. That is the main problem I have believing in God.
2)If I could actually talk to God and not just read about the stuff he did a thousand years in the Bible. I like reading about the acts that God performed and all the miracles, but what good does that due me knowing the history on my faith when I want to become a deeper believer not a historian.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The fact that God is perfect is kind of confusing me. I know God can do whatever he wants, but what is perfect? I believe that you were the perfect being, you'd do everything perfect. You'd make a house, perfectly. What is it to make a house perfectly though. Everyone has a different meaning of perfect, that being said, I don't believe God is perfect.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
I would understand God much better if I actually communicated with him. I feel that we have no way of communication. Sure God could just pop in front of my face right now. Although, you know what they say, God works in mysterious ways. Maybe he does talk to me threw life, maybe I'm just too oblivious well I walk down a hall of paintings. Maybe he works inside my thoughts. Either way, I might need to pay more attention of what's happening.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God? the difficult thing that I have understanding about God is that why he never really answers my prayers. I always need him during bad times and he seems never to be there. I still have complete faith in him and love him.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?What would probably help me believe In God is a sign to show that he exsists
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The difficult thing that I have about believing in or understanding God is the fact that God has been around forever. Every time I think about that it just shocks me like wow that is a long time. Another thing is also that why cant God stop all problems in the world. That is what I have trouble with in understanding God
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
What I think would help me believe/ understand God is if all the suffering in the world stopped. We are all the lords children and he doesn't want us to get hurt. That is what I would think that would help me understand God.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
For me it is difficult understanding God because he wants every person to do good,so why can't he help those people that harm others? God needs to help those people so that they won't be mean and have something to live happy for.It's also hard sometimes because he doesn't help the people that are sick and that are doing great in their lives.I think he should help all of the people out there and answer all there prayers. God has power to have good in us.God has us in his hands and he could take the bad away from us.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
I already believe in God.Something that would help me more in understanding him is if he could help people change. For all the bad people to go to church and respect others.If he could please answer my family's prayers and everyone's prayers.God could help us out more and more.To gather all the people in our community to go to mass more often and every Sunday. To encourage everyone to do the rights things. To help us decide between the bad and the good.
1)what is difficult is when you pray to God for something and it doesn't happen.For example some when some one's family member is in the hospital and you pray that they don't die and then they do. Also when i pray for someting adn I feel like he doesn't answer my prayers.Those are the tings that make it hard for me to believe in God.
2)What would help me believe in God is to pray more. Also by going to church and listening tothe readings.Also to understand the readings and think about what it means.I can also talk to some one religious like a brother.That is what would help me believe more in God
What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
What is difficult for me is that sometimes He does not answer my prayers. Most of the time He does but when he does not I feel like I let Him down. I don’t know why I fell like that. I guess when He does not answer my prayers I feel like I did something wrong and He felt like I needed to be punished. I try to be a good person because I believe that if you do good, good things will come to you.
What would help you believe in/understand God better?
I will try being nice to people more even though they are not nice to me. Not too long ago, I was that person that would think “oh that person is mean to me I will be mean to them back” and I still am like that sometimes. My parents always told me to treat others how I would like to be treated and I lived by that. God wants me to be nice to everybody even though they are mean to me and I will try to be nicer.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Answer:What makes it difficult for me believing in or understanding God is because if he loved us so much why did he cause destruction to this world? If there's a lot of chaos its because God is causing it nobody else.
.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Answer: What will make me believe in God is when we all have world peace. Such as all of us getting along and no fear in the world.Also, when we trust and have a lot of faith , that would make me believe more in our God
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
I think what pose as a challenge for me on understanding God would be why doesn't he show himself to us. If he wants us to know him so much then why does God not show himself to us. I also get confused who created God. Watching too much ancient aliens in history channel has also once changed my views about God. These are the challenges I have about believing in God
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
I think what helped me keep my faith is the community, the priest and the Lasallian brothers helped me understand God better. Also having prayer helped me felt closer to God, that he is listening to my prayer. God has actually answered my prayers and going to church also makes me feel really holy. Reading about God in books have also keep me faithful to God. I think what would help me believe more in God is that if he shows himself to us....
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
For me, believing in God is not difficult. I may not be able to see him, but i know he is there. God has given himself a special place in my heart, and it will always stay there. Also, there are many people who do not believe in God, but i refuse to listen to them and i continue to follow God. God is like my best friend, because he is someone i can go to when i have a problem.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
The one thing that would help is seeing him. I want to see him face to face and talk to him I want to tell him how i feel about the world and all his people. I want to discuss with him about the trouble that we all go through because all the sinners we have in the world. If i could just see him once, for just one second, i will be satisfied and it will be a lot easier to believe in him and understand him better.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The difficult about believing in God would be that I have so many obsticles in life for i can at least have some time with God.The obsticles that i may have in life would mostly be the T.V and my phone.It is also difficult to believe in God when i have so many problems in my life. It is difficult to understand God sometimes because i always wonder why would he let fights and wars go along. Another way it is hard to understand him is why would he put so many obsticles in our life.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
The thing that could help me believe more in God would be not having a lot of obsticles in my life. Another way would be to not use the T.V. a lot and neeader my phone because they take a lot of my time. It can also help me by as to not getting do many problems in my life. Another way would be that wars and fights would stop happening and we would have peace. another way that can help me would be to go to church every sunday.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
It is a little bit difficult understanding God, because the things you want to happen.You think that God sometimes does not care about you. it is also hard because when you need him he is sometimes not there for you.It is hard believing in him because you cannot see him.It is hard believing something that is not there.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Something that can help me believe in him is see him in person.If God do everything everyone said to help other people out.If I can understand God through Prayer.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
what id fifficult is that i don't get how God came to earth he preached to everyone and then died on the cross for a bunch of people that he did not know. I do not know how or why he -put himself here to die.
2) What would help you believe in understand God better?
What helps me to beleive better in God is going to church ad hearing about all the things that he did.
Also when i pray it helps me to talk and i actually think God can hear me.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
I start to doubt God when i face death either its my family or a loved ones. When things are hard for me and my family.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Me talking to God daily through prayer and continue to have faith.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Things that are hard for me about believing in God are the rules we have in our religion. I am able to wake up for church on Sundays. I would get really mad about waking up, what’s even harder besides that is following many rules that are said in the bible. Many things like not eating meat on occasions and not cussing because it’s bad. I think it’s more than impossible to not break any rules in the bible. It’s hard for a person to try to be perfect. We all sin and that is what I feel guilt of.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Every time I have 6th period I feel like I understand God more. Once in a while I reflect on the things that are said in class and I challenge myself in following them. I feel that this helps me understand God more. When I go to church this helps me communicate with God at a higher level. It is always good to be taught by a person who is more experienced. A person that keeps me faithful would be my cousin and Br. Chris. They are both like a reminder that you are always living in the presence of God and sometimes that is the type of people I and many others need.
1.That when ever i am in trouble or upset and i need Gods help i pray but he never answers my prayers.
2. if He would help me whenever i pray for him or myself when i need help.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Answer: The difficult thing that i have trouble believing God is why he can't answer all my prayers and why he doesn't help me in life.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Answer: What will help me believe more about God is Confirmation and pray more about God.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
The difficult thing about believing in God is
Why he havnt stopped all these problems in
This world. God always talks about loving our
Neighbors but he dosent help us make peace
With them.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God
better?
If God came to me in person or if he answered everyone of my prayers. If there were no violence
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
Some things I have trouble believing in God is when bad happens in my life. I feel alone in life such as lonely person. Also in thinging how were we amde by God and who made him. Finally why do I have this kind of life and why are some people having better and worser lifes than me.
2) What would help you believe in understand God better?
If everyone one deepest wish came true and everyone was good to each other and themselves. I believe a lot of dreams of others have not came true and I see how sometimes they are sad and want a beter life. It would be very nice to see that for everyone and everyone has a smile on their faces.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
What makes it difficult for me to believe in God is all the lessons Ive heard in class. Ive been going to a Catholic school my entire life. It seems the more you hear about it, the more unreal it sounds. When your a kid its easier to believe in God because you have imagination, and your possibilities are endless. You can believe your father was once able to fly; if that was a story he had told you. But when you get older, you have the common sense to differ stories from reality. Everything you hear in the bible just doesn't make sense.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?
Seeing him. Not in the image of someone else, but as God himself.
1)Believing in God is difficult for me because of all the troubles in the world and family.What I mean by troubles in the world is terrorism ,racism, and the economy.What I mean by btroubles in my family is losing a lot of loved ones.
2)I think an explanation would help me believe in God more.I say this because I need a littile more things besides stories to understand God.
) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?
That i can't see him im pretty sure though that God is just testing peoples faith to make sure that they will beleive in his power even when you can't see him and that you at all times have a mutal belief in God.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better? One thing that would help me beleive in God would be to actually witness his power and see him in person some example that i do see is me being alive but i would love to see him in person.
1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God? I think it's difficult to understand god because there are so many sick people in the world right now.
2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?I already believe in God and from my past experiences I think god has shown me enough to believe in him
1.What I have trouble believing in God is if he's always there for you? Why the bad thing just happened to you and why the violence in the world is so great?
2. I think that if God would give me a sign he's real and looking over me. That will make me believe in him more than I already do.
tracy jackson pr2
1)i dont have difucultys with my faith so it dosent bother me
2)i dont know so that tiyp of thing dosent bother me
Post a Comment