Beliefs about the nature of God 2

Question 1

What does the ‘nature’ of God mean?

Answer 1

This means God’s characteristics, his attributes, his qualities.

Question 2

What do Christians believe about the nature of God?

Answer 2

Christians believe that God is outside time and space, he is transcendent and eternal.
They believe that God is omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-knowing).
Christians also believe that God is omnibenevolent (all-good and all-loving): this means he wants the best for people and gives them rules to live by.

Question 3

What is analogy?

Answer 3

Using a word symbolically to suggest something else.

Question 4

Who is a Monotheist?

Answer 4

A person that believes in one God

Examples are Muslims, Jews and Christians

Question 5

What is a myth?

Answer 5

A story that is not factually true, but has important spiritual truths.

Question 6

What is a symbol?

Answer 6

A way of explaining the unexplainable, and using something to represent something else.

Question 7

What does omnipotent mean?

What does omnipresent mean?

What does omniscient mean?

What does omnibenevolent mean?

Answer 7

All-good

All-present

All-knowing

All-good

Question 8

Key Text:

• Genesis 1:26-27
  God made humans in his own image.

-Genesis 3:8
God walking in the garden

-Isaiah 66:13a
God as a mother

-Matthew 11:27
Jesus is the Son of God

Answer 8

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