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Reflective Essay: My Faith Statement At The University

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I had a chance to see my faith statement which I wrote before seminary. I was surprised to see the differences in my faith statement by facing the graduation in seminary. My perspective about God became wider than before. I have rebuilt God's image by focusing on gender, creation, and justice through my education in seminary.
The first outstanding difference is the inclusive language about God. Although I studied theology in my undergraduate, I had not thought the inclusive language for God because of my culture, which is patriarchal. When I was in South Korea, I even believed calling God as "mother" or "she" is heresy. In my brain, God was only male figure like father. When I prayed, I always started with "Father God" because this is what …show more content…

However, after I started to recognize God as the Creator, and others and nature as the creatures of God - just like me, my world view is changed. Furthermore, I feel free to accept others who are different to me, and also started to care about the environment, which God gave us to take care in the mutual relationship. These idea about Creator God and Creatures has been built up strongly by understanding the triune God. Although I believed God as the triune God before, my word and my church were used to fail to balance the triune God. My culture I grew up was more focusing on Jesus Christ in sermon, bible study, prayer and so on. I realized my unbalanced understanding of the triune God through the theology class in seminary. As I have learned about the importance of balancing of triune God, I could see the relational personality in God. It was interesting to know God is very relational among three in one. The relational triune God helped me understand between myself and others including natures in relationship. I believe that the natures and others can be the subject of relationship, and I believe that God shows us how to have relationship one another through his/her relationship each other among the

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