Believing in God- Religous Upbringing and Religous Experience.

Believing in God

Religous experience

Main features of a Christain upbringing

• Liklihood of baptism-as part of this sacrament parents promise to to bring their children up as christians-encourage them to believe in God.
• Taught to pray to God
• Taken to church.
• Sent to Sunday school.
• Maybe sent to church school-taught the national curriculum in a christian enviroment.
• Liklihood of confirmation.
• Sacrament may involve a religous experience .

How a religous upbringing may lead to or support belief in God

• Parents will tell children God exists and children will believe what their parents tell them.
• Taught to pray to God-parents would not waste time praying to something that does not exist.
• Seeing others worship in church will make them think God exists.
• Sunday school-learn about christianity and what/why they believe in God.
• Church school-children will believe what their teachers tell them..
• Confirmation-learn more at confirmation lessons and possibly have a religous…