Personal Faith Beliefs

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Based on looking at my two previous papers, my personal faith convictions would be most in line with John Wesley. He was involved in the building of the Methodism movement. His stance on getting into heaven seemed to be a mix of different ideologies. The two different ones that come to mind have to do with Calvinists and the Quakers. The Calvinists believe the Bible was The Word of God and it was distributed or spoken through the Holy Spirit. To the Quakers, the Bible was looked to as a sense of Spirit instead of The Word. John Wesley agreed with the Quakers regarding to the spirit of God being the ultimate truth. The basis for John Wesley’s theological stance was to have a practical application. There was a “method” in faith that one should

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