Christianity : beliefs Flashcards
Nature of God, omnibenevolence
‘Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his love endures forever’
Nature of God, omnipotence
‘Nothing is impossible with God’
Nature of god
(holy spirit)
‘Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’
Nature of God/Creation, the Holy Trinity
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God’
Sin and evil
(satan tempts eve)
‘when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Creation
‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth’
Afterlife, faith in Jesus
‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die’
Afterlife, judgement
‘He will come to judge the living and the dead’
Afterlife, Heaven or Hell
‘And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’
Afterlife, Eternal life
‘The body that is sown perishable is raised imperishable’
Atonement
‘The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
Incarnation
“You may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the
Son of God, and that by believing you may have
life in his name”