Existential Controversy: Religion Is The Right Religion

A lone ant assisting a colony of ants in building. Martin Luther King Jr. leading thousands of people during the march from Selma to Montgomery. A man practicing soccer so he can join his college soccer team. What do these subjects have in common? They each have a sense of purpose. Whether it’s evolutionary purpose, such as an ant building an ant hill, or a sense of moral purpose, such as protesting for the rights of African-Americans. Everything on this earth has potential given by God, and can be maximize if recognized and understood.

For the past few years, I’ve been feeling depressed. Of course I self-diagnosed with depression, but if I were to get checked, I’m very sure I would get diagnosed with depression. That’s how bad it was. I’ve felt this way because I’ve been having an existential crisis. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where did we, as humans, come from? What is my purpose here on this earth? These are questions I have struggled to answer. Only with my low self-esteem, these factors have impaired me to the point where I just didn’t even want to be here. I believe it all started when I started questioning my faith in God.

Controversy when it comes to religion has occurred for centuries. Bloody wars over books of sacred text. Which religion is the right
It has started to unnerve and annoy me to the point where I didn’t want a thing to do with Christianity again. She bans certain shows and music because she deems them demonic. She always talks about casting down spirits. However, recently, she purchased a book for me called “Maximizing Your Potential” by Miles Munroe. And of course I wanted nothing to do with it at first because it was written from a Christian point-of-view. However, I started reading it and actually was engulfed. The book made me realize that there is greatness in me, and that this greatness was giving to be me the God. It made me want to renew my faith in the