Beliefs and teachings (Christianity)

Question 1

What type of religion is Christianity known as?

Answer 1

A monotheistic religion as they believe in only one God.

Question 2

What do Christians believe god is?

Answer 2

Eternal unlike humans.

Question 3

What does omniscient mean?

Answer 3

That God is All knowing.

Question 4

What does Transcended mean?

Answer 4

God is outside the world, beyond everything and outside time.

Question 5

What does immanence mean?

Answer 5

Belief God is closer to us than our heartbeat and is involved in this world.

Question 6

What does benevolence mean?

Answer 6

That God is all loving.

Question 7

What does omnipotent?

Answer 7

That God is all powerful.

Question 8

What does incarnate mean?

Answer 8

That God is embodied in human form.

Question 9

What does the Amish community believe?

Answer 9

Believe God has provided salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus and believe they must practice salvation through works.

Question 10

What does Hillsong church focus on?

Answer 10

The grace of God for forgiveness

Question 11

What is the holy trinity?

Answer 11

The holy trinity is God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit.

Question 12

What does God as Father provide for his followers?

Answer 12

A sense of safety and protection

Question 13

How was Jesus placed in Mary?

Answer 13

By the Holy Spirit.

Question 14

Why did God come to Earth in the form of Jesus?

Answer 14

1) to reveal Himself to people
2) to sacrifice Himself on the cross
3) to rise from the dead

Question 15

When does the Spirit reveal itself?

Answer 15

At the Pentecost feast.

Question 16

What does the Spirit do?

Answer 16

1) helps Christians to live in the way that God requires.
2) helps Christians to understand God’s teaching.
3) promises life with God in heaven after death.

Question 17

What is a creed?

Answer 17

A summary statement of religious beliefs, often recited in worship.

Question 18

In what order did God create the world?

Answer 18

1) - light was created.
2)- The sky was created.
3) - dry land, seas, plants and trees were created.
4) - The Sun, Moon and stars were created.
5) - Creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly were created.
6) - Animals that live on the land and finally humans.
7) - God finished his work of creation and rested.

Question 19

What is the original sin?

Answer 19

Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God when they ate a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden

Question 20

what is natural evil?

Answer 20

Suffering created through no fault of humans

Question 21

What is moral evil?

Answer 21

Suffering caused by the actions of human beings

Question 22

What is the problem of evil?

Answer 22

1) if God is omnibenevolent, then He would care enough to stop the suffering caused by evil, but He hasn’t so maybe He is not omnipotent.

Question 23

What is the Irenaean theodicy?

Answer 23

1) God allows evil and suffering to exist
2) the world was deliberately created with both good and evil in order that humans would be able to choose and learn what is right and good.
3) through suffering we learn and develop spiritually.
4) God allows suffering because He wants our souls to develop.
5) as long as people are open to learning from their actions they can get to heaven.

Question 24

What is the Augustinian theory?

Answer 24

1) God made a perfect Creation as recorded in Genesis
2) there is no evil in God’s creation
3) evil is the absence of goodness
4) evil is when something good becomes corrupted and lacks its intended perfection

Question 25

What is ‘The Fall’?

Answer 25

The move by humans out of a perfect relationship with God

Question 26

Why was Jesus sent to Earth by God the Father?

Answer 26

1) to take the punishment for human sin
2) to restore the broken relationship between God and humanity

Question 27

What does the Sermon on the Mount contain?

Answer 27

Jesus’ teachings about how Christians should live in order to please God

Question 28

What does the word ‘beatitudes’ mean?

Answer 28

Blessings

Question 29

What is sacrificial love?

Answer 29

Love that places God, others, and even enemies, above yourself

Question 30

What is evangelism?

Answer 30

Sharing Jesus’ message and persuading others to become believers