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1. “In other words, belief is when someone thinks something is reality, true, when they have no absolute verified foundation for their certainty of the truth or realness of something” - Wikipedia. Is there really a god or is it just another fictional character that we are instilled to believe in like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Why is it that we are told there is only one god but other countries can believe in more then one? I can say that, I am not a true believer of god but I do believe that there is a higher being. Over the past twenty-seven years, I was never brought up as a spiritual child. My parents would never bring me to church on Sundays, nor did I have to read scriptures about the lord. However, that did not exclude me from going to church, believing in a higher being, and believing in life after death.

2. For instance, there was no time in my life that I was really into reading scriptures, or even interested, until I reached the age 17. One
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Further more, I do believe there is some sort of a higher being. I would not call it god, but I do believe it is something of that nature. I find it hard for me to call a higher being God because it is not really doing, the work, that a god would do. If there really was a god, I would hope that he or she would protect us from evil and not give us as much pain, hard ache, and suffering. Watching these young kids dying on the news daily is not really the work of gods doing. A god is supposed to be there to cover and protect us, or is it just another example of something to believe in.

4. However, I do believe in life after death. After a human being passes I believe their spirit is still walking amongst us. We all have those eerie feelings that someone is with us when we are in a room alone. We think it is an old friend or family member that passed, so we try to talk to the as if they are still here. So why do we not get the same feeling when the presence of god is

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