Seminary Program

This is where we post the essays from many of our Universal Life Church Seminary students. When students finish a ULC course, they write a comprehensive essay about their experiences with the course, what they learned, didn't learn, were inspired by, etc. Here are their essays.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Four Gospels

   Hello, My name is Rev. Deborah Overfield. I am writing this essay as my exam for the Four gospels. It was very enlightening.


   I chose to write about something comforting. I saw though the entire four gospels that most of it was the same from book to book until you get to the book of John that has more to it. This is significant to illustrate the stories being exactly the same, even in today's world we could try and try and our stories are not the same to this exactness. This is to the perfect ness of it is them writing out of the inspiration of God. As the entire bible is the word of God. So as we are to know, understand and study the word we see the imperfectness and what we need to change or strive to be.


   In one story the disciples forget the bread and they ask if they should go back and get some, and Jesus seems frustrated with them once again and basically says you still don't understand?


Jesus didn't need them to go get bread. They were looking at situations as they could relate to in an earthly way instead of a heavenly one = Jesus is the way. He didn't need bread as he could feed thousands. Many things were not understood but once the MIND of the men were out of the way, they started to SEE clearer what was being taught. This happened throughout the gospels so that shows us we need to get our MIND out of our way and be the person behind the mind and stay focused on Jesus = the way and all truth will be given and measured down according to what you can handle at that time. More growth equals more known truth. You have to loose yourself to find yourself.


   This is comforting to me because no matter where we are or what is going on if we are always walking with God in TRUTH, seeking the truth, living the truth and thanking God for all our blessings and thanking him also for our lessons learned we grow up in the lord and awaken to more truth until we are constantly living in it. That's when you get a realization that we had been living before in an illusion of our own beliefs and they were most all false beliefs just like what the disciples were also doing. Even after Jesus came back from the dead he showed the nail scared hands to prove who he was, many still seem to ask him to prove who he is even now. So it is time to stop this and search and find the truth and live it. Then and only then will we finally be in bliss regardless of what is going on. Living in true Joy.


Sincerely,
Rev. Deborah Overfield



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