What Is Religion?

What Is Religion?

To me the word religion means many things. Religion can be defined as a way to lead your life. In most religions, there are a set of principles by which the people who practice it are supposed to live by. Some religions may require a person to do good works in order to have a good afterlife. In others, they might be required to do things like pray to an idol, or make a sacrifice and worship to achieve a higher standing in the afterlife.

A religion can also be described as a way to explain the point of our human existence. Where did we come from and why were we put here? This is a question most of us have asked ourselves at one point on our life, so religion can be a struggle to try and answer it. We surely couldn't have been put here just to live and die. Most religions all have something in common. They believe in a greater force, or spirit than our human selves. They have their own sacred writings like the Bible or the Khuran, and places, and some have sacred practices.

My whole life, I have practiced the religion of Christianity. We believe that God created humans to have a relationship with him. But because of Adam and Eve's sin, the human race became so sinful that we were all cut off from God and bound to spend eternity after death in a terrible place called hell. However, our creator, loved us so much that he sent his own son Jesus Christ to earth as a man to be the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of humanity. So to be a Christian, you have to tell God you know you have sinned, and believe that he sent his Son to die for our sins. Then, we are supposed to live our lives as close as possible to how Jesus Christ lived his so people can see him through us. However it is not possible for us to be perfect as He was, because of our natural sinful nature. Therefore we have to pray to God everyday and ask for forgiveness of our sins. God also gave us a guide book called the Bible which he speaks to us through. The biggest part of being a Christian, is being able to have a personal relationship with the God that created the whole entire universe, and being able to look forward to spend an eternity with him, away from hell and the sins of the world. This is the basic belief of my religion. It has a greater being than humans, God, a sacred writing, the Bible, and explains the reason of why we are on earth and where we came from.

In conclusion, a religion can be many