My Journey Towards Heaven

My Journey Towards Heaven

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Running head: BIOGRAPHY OF PERSONAL RELIGIOUS FAITH BELIEFS

My journey towards heaven
(The biography of my life based on my personal religious faith beliefs)

André Groeneveld

Master of Sacred Theological Divinity

Universal Ministries School of Theology

My journey towards heaven
(The biography of my life based on my personal religious faith beliefs)

My spiritual life began at a very early stage although unbeknown to me. My early school years were spent in the Catholic Convent in my home town. Here I was introduced to the Lord Jesus with monogamous instilling of the Word of God. I learned to know Jesus as a bearded long haired man who walked wherever He wanted to go. My belief was as little as I was young. I thought Jesus would have to impossibly transport Himself to different places He wanted to visit. He was someone who no longer walked the earth. I did not know the Holy Spirit as a comforter only as the horizontal line of the making of the cross when praying.
I started, at this very early age, to take the bible very literally thinking that God could do anything you asked Him to. I thought my faith to be so strong that I spent hours glaring at the mountain across the bay in the hope and subsequent fear that, with prayer I could cast it into the sea. After praying I would hide in my room in the unlikely event of the mountain sinking to the bottom of the ocean. I tried to find reasons for the failure of my prayer and realized that it would harm too many people should God do it.
In high school I was introduced to a different side of the Lord, one where I could actually know Him. One where He was no longer only someone who sometimes heard my prayers and who in my mind rarely granted them. Only in high school did I come face to face with the reality of being human and having a sovereign will to choose. It became common knowledge to me that should God answer all prayers the world would be dumped into total havoc.
I was given the...

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