Confession of Faith Paper
Confession of Faith Paper
Confession of Faith Paper
Jordan Fiedor
Confession of Faith
21 November 2017
Confession of Faith
Sitting in my Faith, Religion, and Society class for the past three months, it made me
think about my beliefs, faith, and religion in a whole new way than I have ever in the past four
years of my life. The way I started thinking about my beliefs, faith, and religion was more on a
deeper level and truly understanding my relationship with God. Also, it seemed I was just going
through the motions in the past couple of years, so now, I have a whole new perspective on my
views. The course forced me to answer questions that I never thought about and may not have
I grew up in a Catholic household where my parents took my religion seriously but at the
same time had some slack when practicing Catholicism. When I was young, my family would go
to church every Sunday we had the chance to. Also, we would go to every “holiday” event
during the year because those masses are more important but at the same time just as equal as the
other masses during the year. I would go to other religious activities outside of just mass alone. I
went to bible school during the summer that lasted a couple of weeks at St. Bruno’s. I attended
religious education or CCD at my church, St. Paul’s, on Saturday morning and when I was older,
it would be in the afternoon on Sunday. I was forced to go until the age of 9 and from there I
never went again. I do not know why I never went again but it was after I had my holy
communion in the second grade, but I think it had to do with having older siblings who had
swimming events in the evening on Sundays. After my communion, it was just the regular
Sunday morning mass when we were able to. These events religious affairs taught me the basics
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about Jesus and God and who they are and what they did but it did not teach me how to have a
When I was a child I did not truly understand the whole idea of God and Jesus and what
they did for us. All I knew that God sacrificed his only son Jesus to be crucified and die for our
sins so we can all go to heaven if we follow a righteous path. So, my age is what stopped me
from believing and having complete faith in God. By attending church about every week, I
would hear three different readings a week that contained a certain message for people to learn
from previous mistakes or experiences Jesus had encountered. My mother and father were able
to guide me by teaching what the meaning of the scriptures from mass meant. Also, they were an
influence on me because they knew so much information about him that it made me want to
learn as much about him as possible. Learning about what God did for us and what Jesus had
sacrificed, convinced me to have complete belief while strengthening my relationship with God.
My mother was able to witness me learning and developing a better relationship with God
because I join a group called Fellow Christians in Action (FCA) and joined a bible group with a
bunch of friends that met on Sunday nights. I feel my mother was proud of me because I was
taking charge of my religion at such an early age of 13. This made me believe that my own
family and friends prayed for me to develop the right, best, most healthy belief system in God
and Jesus because we would all look out for each other and pray and hope for the best to come
Having this belief that there is a God and Jesus is his son, created some type of
relationship that I still wonder about this day. It is not a physical friendship where I am able to
interact face-to-face with him every day, but it is more a trusting relationship that I know well
with my family. I would pray to God growing up because I learned that he is always watching us.
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So, I would talk to God through prayer to hopefully get the answers I would need through little
things throughout the day. I know when in need God will guide me to the right path or have
some involvement. I believe and trust that he will help me instead of doubting God and thinking
he is against me when life is not going my way. Instead, it is a test and you must face hardships
to realize how amazing the relationship with God truly is. I have complete faith that God will be
there for me and will never turn his back away from me even if I would turn my back from him.
He will always, always be there for me because he wants a loving relationship with us that
Obviously, I believe in God through influences from the church and my family. I believe
in God through a traditional sense because I grew up going to church, CCD, and bible camps and
studies. So, I learned all my information strictly through the gospels and people teaching me
about God. But there have been personal experiences that prove there is a God in my mind. A
small example would be when I could not find my earbuds for over two-three weeks. Then, I
said a little pray for God to help me find my earbuds and not even 15 seconds later I was able to
find them in a spot I thought I checked on multiple occasions. Another example is when I was a
little kid, I would pray and pray for a cat but my grandmother said, “stop praying for a cat, God
does not give you animals!” Then, the next day coming home from school, a cat approached me
and came right into my arms and I was able to take my new cat home. These personal
experiences made me come to believe more in God than ever before even if some of the
My belief in God came early in life because I grew up in a Catholic family and continued
to practice Catholicism as I got older. You must remember that being a Catholic means you must
have blind faith. Blind faith is believing in something you are unable to feel or see. Catholics
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must believe in what you are told at times and not question it or else you may be led astray from
this certain religion. With being a Catholic there are many ways God interacts with us in our
world. The altar in church represents the place where heaven and earth come together in our
world. The priest stands at the altar during mass and consecrates the bread and wine into the
Body and Blood of Christ. Even though I don’t understand why this happens I truly believe that
this is real.
Blind faith has also made me come to believe in angels. I believe that there are angels
protecting us every day from danger and looking over us with God to help make sure we are
safe. Now, being safe is different from free will. Someone can have the free will to do a lot of
drugs and increase their risk to die. But a personal experience with angels keeping us safe
without us noticing it is when I was driving my car and lost control of it because I hit black ice.
My car went flying off the side of the road and into a little field and lucky no damage was done.
While that occurred, another car flew into my line and may have killed me. So, I believe in
angels and that they are always watching over us at all times.
God has given us free will to do whatever we want and when we want but at that same
time that free will can determine our fate. I believe everything happens for a reason and there is
no way of stopping it because God has a plan for you that you will one day understand if you do
not at the moment. At the same time, you can ruin your fate by stupid mistakes that you get
involved in because as human we have free will to do whatever we choose without rules. But
some actions people choose can have serious consequences. If you are person who follows God
and does whatever you can to help and are a good person I believe you enter the gates of Heaven.
If you are a sinner, although we are all sinners in some sense, and do not care you are sinning
then I believe you can end up in Hell if you do not ask for forgiveness and have mortal sins when
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you die. But if you die and are not completely pure with no mortal sins, then I believe you end up
in Purgatory where you wait till it is decided that you end up in Heaven or Hell. I do not believe
in reincarnation because Hell would not exist. Also, if there is such a thing like reincarnation,
then why do we only remember this current life and no other. That person would continue to
‘redo’ life until they are worthy of entering the gates of Heaven.
In conclusion, I feel that God and Jesus are a constant positive presence in my life. From
an early age, I was taught the morals for the Catholic Church and I feel that these morals are
something that I will carry with my entire life and into the next. This class and assignment has