Christian Teachings Flashcards
What is the problem of evil / inconsistent triad
- If God is omnibenevolent he should want to stop evil and therefore not be onmipotent
- If God is omnipotent and can stop evil he is not omnibenevolent
- If God is both omnibenevolent and omnipotent then evil does not exist
- God doesn’t exist
Give ways philosiphers would respond to the problem of evil the inconsistant triad
Augustine
* Evil is a punishment from God for human sin
Irenaues and Hick
* Evil allows humans to develop by showing qualities such as compassion and bravery
* Evil is a test from God
* Evil is the work of the Devil
All three
* Evil is a result of the abuse of human free will
In the story of Job, why do people suffer and innocent people suffer
- People suffer as a test of their faith
- Good people suffer a lot because the devil wants them to turn away from God
What happens in the story of Job
Job loses everything → his home, his family and gets a terrible skin disease
He questions his suffering with his friend and come up with…
* People suffer as a test of their faith
* Good people suffer a lot because the devil wants them to turn away from God
Give facts about Jesus’ birth from Matthew’s gospel
- Born in a house
- Visited by wise men from the East
- They followed a star
- Brought gifts
- They visited Herod who told tem to let him know where Jesus was born
- They were told by an angel to not go back
Give facts about Jesus’ birth from Luke’ gospel
- Mary was told she will give birth by Angel Gabriel
- Born in Bethlehem
- Born in a manger
- Shepherd’s told of his birth by angels
- Shepherd’s did not bring gifts
Define incarnation
God in flesh
Why do Chrstians believe in the incarnation
- Angel Gabriel says Mary will give birth to the ‘‘son of most high’’
- Jesus performed miracles
- In Jesus baptism God says ‘‘This is my son with whom i am well pleased’’
Why is the incarnation important to Christians
- Enabled God to atone for human sin > Jesus was the sacrifice-lamb of God to make up for the Fall of Adam and Eve
- God could understand human suffering
- God could show humans the perfect way to behave through Jesus and his teachings
What happened before the cricifixion - Holy week
- Jesus predicts his death at the last supper
- He is betrayed to the Jewish high priests by Judas
- He is arrasted in the Garden of Gethsemane by the Roman soldiers and the Jewish high preists
- He is given an illegal trial at night by the high priests
- He is handed over to Pontius Pilate
- He is whipped and spat on by the roman soldiers
- People drew lots over his clothes
- A crown of thorns was placed on his head
What happens during the Crucifixion
- Jesus is made to carry his own cross
- Offered wine but he refuses
- Romans drew lots over his clothes
- He was nailed to the cross
- On his cross it said ‘‘This is Jesus. King of the jews.’’
- People who mocked him told him to save himself if he is the son of God
- He was crucified between two thieves
- When he dies he cries to God ‘‘why have you forsaken me’’
- He is offered wine vinegar
- When he dies there is an earthquake
- The temple curtain comes down
- Manu women mourn him
What is the atonement
making humans and God one again
Why is the crucifixion important for Christians
- Jesus was sacrificed for the inhertied sin from The Fall
- Helped God understand human suffering, from the loss of his son
- Showed God’s omnibenevolence → ‘‘for God so loved the world he gave his only son’’
- Showed Jesus was the son of God → Earquake causing tombs of the holy men to open
- Crucifixion enabled eternal life → ‘‘so that all who believe in him may have eternal life’’
Why is the atonement important for Christians? (4)
- Shows God’s love as he sacrificed his only son to bring humans back to him
- Brings God and Humans closer together
- Original sin was cleansed when Jesus died
- He fulfils the Old Testament prophecy
Give facts about the resurrection
Start 1
1. His tomb was found empty by three women
2. The women were told by two angels → ‘‘why do you look for the living amongst the dead’’
3. The women go back to tell the desciples
4. Peter has to go and look for himself
Start 2
1. Mary vists the tomb and mistakes Jesus for a gardener
2. Jesus tells her that he has rissen
Ending
* Jesus appeared to the disciples and they could not believe it
* They believed after he broke the bread and drank the wine
* Doubting Thomas asks to see Jesus’ wounds
* St Paul says Jesus appeared to five hundred women and men after he had appeared to the disciples
What is the ascension
When Jesus ascends into heaven
