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was right to be praying to her.
Some time after I started to question the validity of saying my prayers to
Jesus, who I really loved, but once again I thought it wasn’t right to be
saying my prayers to him, even though he loved little children. The reason
being in my young mind was that it wasn’t Jesus who created me, rather I
was created by God. I didn’t mention my thoughts to my parents as I knew I
would get into trouble, so I kept them to myself.
The years passed I would go to the church and feel I was a bad person
because I just could not bring myself to say some of the prayers we said in
church each Sunday, especially the creed - the creed is the Christian articles
of faith (Akidah).
What really troubled me was that in the creed it says Jesus went to Hell for
three days after he had suffered so much on the cross and after all, Jesus told
us that Hell was a terrible place created especially for the punishment of
sinners.
Some time after I started to question the validity of saying my prayers to
Jesus, who I really loved, but once again I thought it wasn’t right to be
saying my prayers to him, even though he loved little children. The reason
being in my young mind was that it wasn’t Jesus who created me, rather I
was created by God. I didn’t mention my thoughts to my parents as I knew I
would get into trouble, so I kept them to myself.
The years passed I would go to the church and feel I was a bad person
because I just could not bring myself to say some of the prayers we said in
church each Sunday, especially the creed - the creed is the Christian articles
of faith (Akidah).
What really troubled me was that in the creed it says Jesus went to Hell for
three days after he had suffered so much on the cross and after all, Jesus told
us that Hell was a terrible place created especially for the punishment of
sinners.