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Christian Definitions Flashcards

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What is agape?

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Christian love

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What is Anglican?

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A worldwide denomination that includes the Church of England

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What is ascension?

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Jesus being taken up to heaven on the 40th day after Easter

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What is atonement?

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The action of making amends for wrong doing

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What is baptism?

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A ceremony to welcome a person into the Christian religion

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What is crucifixion?

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A capital punishment used by the romans which nail a person to a cross to kill them

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What denomination?

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The name for the different branches of the Christian church

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What is fundamentalist?

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Christians who take the Bible literally

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What is gospel?

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The names of the books about the life of Jesus in the bible : Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

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What is grace?

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Unconditional love that god shows to people who don’t deserve it

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What is historic truth?

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Facts about historical events, usually from evidence

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What incarnation?

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God in human form, god made flesh

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What is imminence?

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The idea that god is in the world and knowable

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What is inconsistent triad?

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Concept developed by JL Mackie to show that god cannot be both all loving and all powerful due to the existence of evil

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What irenaeus?

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Stated the god created the best of all possible worlds to enable humans to develop empathy and love for each other by learning from suffering

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What is Lord’s Prayer?

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The prayer Jesus taught his disciples to show them how pray

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What is messiah?

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The anointed one who is seen as the saviour by Christians

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What are miracles?

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Events that have no scientific explanation for them happening; these were performed by Jesus and described in the Gospels

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What is mission?

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An organised effort to spread the Christian message

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What is moral evil?

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Evil that is caused by human action

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What is natural evil?

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Evil that is caused by nature but directly impacts on humanity

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What is nicene creed?

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A statement of belief used in Christian services

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What is omnibenevolent?

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The idea that god is all-loving

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What is omniscient?

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The idea that god is all-knowing

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What is omnipotent?

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The idea that god is all-powerful

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What is omnipresent?

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The idea that god is present everywhere

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What is oneness of god?

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The idea that god is ‘one’

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What is orthodox?

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A branch of the Christian church, largely found in Greece and Russia

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What is penitence?

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To feel regret for someone’s sins

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What is Protestant?

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A branch of the Christian church that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church

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What is reconciliation?

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The process of making people in conflict friendly again

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What is religious truth?

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Knowledge gained through interpretation of religious texts, rather than taking them literally

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What is resurrection?

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The physical return of Jesus on the third day after he died

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What is Roman Catholic?

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The largest Christian group, based in Rome with the pope as its leader

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What is salvation?

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The saving of the soul from sin

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What is Sanhedrin?

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The ruling council of Jews in Israel

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What is secular?

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Relating to worldly as opposed to religious things

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What is St Augustine?

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Stated that god created the best of all possible worlds but it was human sin and misuse of free will that led to the fall and the existence of evil

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What is St Paul?

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A man who taught the teachings of Jesus - originally Saul of Tarsus before his conversion

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What is transcendence?

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The idea that god is beyond the world and unknowable

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What is trinity?

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The belief in God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit

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