These questions are by no means easy to address.
Some people spend their whole lifetime searching for the answers.
You will meet some of them. Religious fanatics crowd the headlines and the electronic media, while elsewhere many sincere searchers ask very anguishing questions about where God is and what God is in a world which all too often tramples on the good and rewards the wicked. In reality, there are few occasions in your life when so much changes at one time as when you begin college. Studying religious texts and positions in college, then, allows you to listen and learn at the very time of your life when these questions become especially compelling by becoming your own. Along the way, you'll acquire skills in reading and interpreting texts, and in speaking and writing about what you have read.