Christianity Flashcards
What is moral evil?
Evil done by a person.
What is natural evil?
Evil done by nature.
What is the creation story?
-day 1: light and dark
-day 2: heavens and earth
-day 3: land, plants and leaves
-day 4: sun, moon and stars
-day 5: birds and fish
-day 6: animals and humans created in the image of God.
-day 7: Gods rest.
What did God tell the humans at creation?
‘Be fruitful and multiply,’
What happened in Genesis 1?
God created and designed the world.
What happened in Genesis 2?
-Eve is made from Adam’s rib.
-they eat the forbidden fruit after being tricked by the serpent.
-they discover shame.
What is Adam and Eves punishment?
-shame
-kicked from the garden of Eden
-women have pain in childbirth
-men have to work hard for food
What is original sin?
Adam and Eve eating the fruit.
Which is good, sheep or goats?
Sheep are good and will go to heaven.
Goats are bad and will be separated.
What quote shows that Christianity is for everyone?
‘My fathers house has many rooms’
What are the 3 components of the holy trinity?
-the father
-the son
-the Holy Spirit
How does the crucifixion show that Jesus is God incarnated?
We see his human side through his pain and suffering and blood.
Where do we see all of the holy trinity present?
Jesus baptism.
-Gods voice
-Jesus
-the dove
What is a fundamental view on the creation story?
-it is a fact and exactly how God created the universe.
-it is taken literally.
-they reject evolution and the Big Bang theory.
-they think God created the earth from nothing, showing his omnipotence’s
What is the liberalists view on the creation?
-it should not be taken literally and is a fable.
-they believe in evolution and the Big Bang theory but also in God.
What is fundamentalist?
Someone who takes the bible literally.
What is a liberal?
Someone who views the Bible as a fable to teach things but doesn’t take it literally.
What quote shows that 2 of the holy trinity were present at creation?
‘In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God.’
-Jesus is the word.
What is the incarnation?
God being in the flesh as the son of God, Jesus.
What is resurrection?
Coming back from the dead.
What does the crucifixion show Christian’s?
-gives them confidence to accept Jesus as sins can no longer destroy their lives.
-God understands our suffering.
-we can ask to be forgiven.
What does The ascension show Christian’s?
Gods omnipotence.
What is the uncaused causer idea?
That every contingent being must have a cause, God is a necessary being and has no beginning. This means he must be the first ever cause.
Origins of the universe: Genesis as a metaphor:
-shows Gods omnipotence.
-Liberal Christian view.
Origins of the universe: Teleological:
-created by Thomas Aquinas
-God is the only possible creator
-the watch theory: William paley
-also known as the design argument
-the earth is designed so intricately so it must have a creator, everything has a purpose. It cannot be an accident.
Origins of the universe: cosmological
-also known as the causation
-created by Thomas Aquinas
-domino analogy
-everything has a cause and is set in motion by God.
-for the universe to exist, it must have a first cause - God is the uncaused causer/ the unmoved mover.
What does the Big Bang theory do?
Removes a need for a creator.
Origins of the universe:science and religion:
-acceptance that both can be correct and compatible together.
-they can both go hand in hand.
