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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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  1. The Beautitudes
  2. Jesus and the Law
  3. True Discipleship
  4. True Righteousness
  5. The Narrow Gateway
  6. 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

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