Christian Beliefs and Teachings Flashcards
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Jesus’ life
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- The Gospels focus on Jesus’ life, each gives a different view
- The Gospels describe him as the messiah, the Son of God and the Lord and Saviour
- His death provided a sacrifice to end the sin of humanity created by Adam and Eve
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Jesus as the Son of God
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- Christians believe Jesus is God incarnated
- His conception was not natural as the Holy Spirit entered Mary
- The Old Testament contains prophecies of Jesus coming to Earth as a saviour
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Jesus as the Messiah
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- Messiah means saviour
- Stated in prophecies told to Abraham
- Jesus’ life fulfilled the prophecies as he came for all people not just Jews
- His kingdom was spiritual
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Jesus as the Lord and Saviour
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- The bible teaches that after the fall, the relationship between God and humans was broken
- Jesus then came to Earth to pay for the sins of humanit with his death
- Jesus however had the power to overcome sin and then come back to life showing he is not human
- This is represented in the Holy Trinity
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Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
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- The Beautitudes
- Jesus and the Law
- True Discipleship
- True Righteousness
- The Narrow Gateway
- Building on solid foundations
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The Beautitudes
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- Beautitudes means blessings
- Jesus describes all the qualities God wants His followers to have
- The first three bless those who are weeker but accept themselves e.g the poor in spirit, the meek
- Four to seven focus on those searching for God, truth and righteousness e.g the merciful and the peacemakers
- The last targets the persecuted
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Effect of the first beautitudes
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- The first shows that Jesus is helping his followers by making them more open to God, they are then able to share God’s love
- This sums up the actions of Mother Teresa in the slums of Kolkatta
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Effect of the second Beautitudes
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- Shows that if youa re not distracted in what you do to find God, you eventually will
- Represents the work of Martin Luther King Jr
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Effect of the third Beautitudes
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- Concentrates on those suffering for doing what is right in the eyes of God
- Shows they will be rewarded in heaven
- Representes the work of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador
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Jesus and the Law
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- Moses originally bought the law to the Israelites in the Ten Commandments
- Jesus taught that obidience to the law came from a person’s heart
- This is because it is a person’s thinking that effects their actions
- Jesus considers ‘Do not commit murder’ to be unacceptable
- It robs someone of a God-given value
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Jesus’ view on divorce
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- Jesus viewed divorce as a last resort
- ## If someone were to divorce their partner, they would make them a victim of adultery unless it was for sexual immorality
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Oaths
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- Jesus teaches that people should fulfill their oaths to God
- Oaths should only be sworn to God
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Jesus and Revenge
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- Jesus teaches not just to “Love thy neighbour” but to also love enemies
- This demonstrates forgivness
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Jesus and true discipleship
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- Jesus discusses what it means to be a true follower
- He dismisses outward acts of faith to show goodness and self promotion
- H eerquires those who keep their methods of faith private
- Jesus wants his disciples to pray straight to the point
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True righteousness
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- Wealth
- Judging Others
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Wealth
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- Jesus tells his followers not build up physical wealth but to build up spiritual wealth
- Jesus teaches that a person can not worship God and money
- Jesus is saying money itself is not wrong but the love of money is
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Judging Others
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- Jesus wants people to understand that no one is perfect and no one is in any position to judge someone
- God’s judging is infallible and human judging is flawed
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The Narrow Gateway
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- Jesus describes the difficulties of being a Christian
- He uses a narrow gateway and large pathway to symbloise this
- If God’s holy law is not obeyed, the gateway will be missed
- Soemone can be driven away from the bate by persecution
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Jesus’ example
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- Jesus teaches Christians to be obedient to God
- Jesus spent time with the social rejects
- He ate with tax collectors, cured people with lepra and forgave prositutes
- ## He fed those in need such as the feeding of the multitude
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How Christians follow Jesus’ example
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- Christians must show agape love as Jesus did
- Christians work towards the creation of God’s kingdom
- They preach to convert people, evangelism
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Different beliefs about Jesus
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- Different denominations believe different things
- Some groups just see Jesus’ miracles as parables
- Some take him literally
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The Incarnation
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- Christians belive Jesus is a God made man
- He was born of the holy spirit
- Because of this, Christians believed that Jesus could perform these miracles
- The main purpose of his incarnation was to atone for the sins of humanity
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The crucifixion
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- Crucifixion is a public mean of execution with a lot of pain
- Jesus suffered the full pain of a human death
- His death was an atonement sacrifice
- This was provided in the messiah prophecies in the Old Testament
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The resurrection
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- Jesus overcame the power of death and evil by rising from the dead
- He was seen by over 5000 people
- All four gospels account that the tomb was empty and a large boulder had been moved
- This showed he was God incarnate
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The ascension
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- Four days after the resurrection, the book of Acts accounts that Jesus rose to heaven to spend eternity with God
- This is symbolises the triumph of good over evil
- ## Also it shows the ending of his life and work on Earth
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The Apostle’s creed
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- The apostles creed was written between the second and ninth century
- It sums up Christian doctrine and challenges any heresies
- “On the third day he rose again; and he ascended to heaven”
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Dofferent beliefs about the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension
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- Shows God working in the current world
- Some denominations focus on aspect more than another
- Some focus on the crucifixion to show the meaning of death
- Believed by protestants
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Salvation
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- When Adam and Eve sinned beginning the fall, the relationship between humanity and God needed to be repaired
- This process was done through salvation and Jesus
- This was known as atonement
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Atonement
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- Before the salvation, God agreed with the Moses that he would care for the Jewish nation if they followed his holy law
- He gave Moses the Ten Commandments to follow
- This was a way to atonement
- On the day of atonement in Judaism, the high priest will perform an animal sacrifice in the holy of holies creating reconciliation
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Sacrifice of the Animal
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- Christians use this Jewish teaching to comapre to Jesus
- His death also represents reconciliation
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Holy Law
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- In the past, religious law condemned people to show that they were sinful or imperfect
- These were people who could not meet God’s standards (The Ten Commandments
- People could plead for forgiveness and their sins would be forgiven
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Grace
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- The new covenant shows that people are forgiven through the grace of God
- This means that humans have His blessings
- Humans will have His grace, if they have faith in Christ
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Ephesians 2:8-9
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is from the grace of God - not by works, so that no one can boast
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Sin
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- Sin entered the world through the disobedience of Adam and Eve
- This brought death with it and therefore suffering
- Only through God’s grace can one avoid sin and go to heaven”
- This will make everyone equal
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Redemption
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- This is the word that Christians use for what God has done to remove sin
- This is paying off a debt
- This paying off the debt of sin
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Repentance
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- Means forgiveness
- Sacrament
- This is to remove sin
- This is what Christians use to lead a good life
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Different views about salvation
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- There are different understandings on how Jesus’ death achieved salvation
- Many Christians belive that it paid for human sin
- It could be considered a ransom to pay for human sinners
- By God becoming human, He could work to form a union with humans
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How individuals recieve salvation
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- RCC believe baptism as a way to recive salvation
- Evangelicals belive that faith in Jesus is a way to recive salvation
- Doing good deeds is also a way believed to gain salvation
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Apocalyptic ideas in the early church
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- The second coming of Jesus is believed to lead to the apocalypse
- This event is known as Parousia
- This is described in the final book of the Bible, Revelations
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Resurrection and life after death
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- Christians can not process the immortal soul within them
- Christians believe that the soul is a part of God as in Genesis 2:7, God breathed life into Adam
- This makes human life sacred as it is God given
- This shows that human bodies are imprefect
- At the end lf time, God will raise the dead to be judged
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Hell
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- Hell is rarely mentioned in the Bible, in the Old Testament it is called sheol and Jesus refers to it as Gehanneh
- It is described as a place of punishment
- Some christians believe it to be a place of annihilation and a place to no longer exist
