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Christianity Beliefs Flashcards

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What is the main religion in Britain ?

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Christianity

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what is the meaning of monotheistic ?

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believing in one supreme being e.g God

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what are the 3 main branches of Christianity ?

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Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox

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True or False Christians only believe in one god ?

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True

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what is god ?

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the creator and sustainer of all that exists

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what does omnipotent mean ?

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all powerful

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what does omniscient mean ?

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all knowing

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what does omnibenevolent mean ?

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all loving

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what is the trinity ?

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The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit

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Christians believe that God is just what does this mean ?

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he will give everybody what the deserve
e.g heaven or hell

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what do fundamentalist Christians believe about the creation ?

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that the creation is literal and happened exactly as stated in the bible

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Most Christians believe that the story of the creation in the bible is an allegory what does this mean ?

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that the story was never intended to be literal but that it contains certain truths about god

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Who was Jesus baptised by ?

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John the Baptist

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what is the word in the bible ?

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Jesus

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Throughout the gospel who is “the son of god”

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Jesus

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what do Christians today believe that the Holy Spirit does ?

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change lives and gives people courage

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what does incarnation mean ?

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it means “becomes flesh” or “embodiment”

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who is the incarnation of god ?

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Jesus

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why is the incarnation important to Christians ?

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it shows Christians that god loves them

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True or False Christians believe that god created everything ?

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True

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True or False Christians believe that when god created the universe everything he made was bad ?

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False
Christians believe that everything was good and there was no suffering at all

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who convicted Jesus of blasphemy ?

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a Jewish priest who saw Jesus as a threat

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what does humans being created in gods image mean for Christians ?

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They have a special relationship with god

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why does god being just mean that Christians try to live a good life with no sin ?

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because Christians believe that if they follow gods rules ( ten commandments) they will be rewarded by god and sent to heaven

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True or False once someone has sinned even if they ask for forgiveness god will punish them ?

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False
as long as the person is sorry for their sin and asks for gods forgiveness he will give it to them

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what does god being transcendent mean ?

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this means that god is apart from the rest of creation

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what is the problem of evil ?

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the belief that god cannot be omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent all at the same time because there is still suffering in the world

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what do some Christians think about god being omnipotent ?

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that is he truly was omnipotent he would stop all the suffering in the world

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what do some Christians think about god being omniscient ?

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he must know that bad things are happening and that people are suffering

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what do some Christians think about god being omnibenevolent ?

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he must love all humans because e is all loving so is he loves us why doesn’t he to stop us from suffering

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what is the free will defence ?

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god is all powerful and all loving but he wanted humans to be able to make a free choice.
humans often choose to disobey god which is why we then suffer

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what is a problem with the argument of free will deference ?

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it only accounts for the man made (moral evil)
As well as this if god is omniscient he would have known that giving us free will would cause the terrible events and suffering

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what is the suffering test ?

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if humans pass the test of suffering we go to heaven
one reaction to suffering would be looking after someone who is vulnerable

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How was Jesus put to death by the roman governor ?

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death by crusifixtion

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Christians believe that a human beings are born with “original sin” what does this mean ?

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because of Adam and Eve disobeying god we are all born more inclined towards selfishness and greed

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do Christian’s believe that Jesus’ death was an accident ?

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no
they believe it was a deliberate plan made by god himself

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what does atonement mean ?

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the relationship between god and and humans has been restored because Jesus’ death atoned us

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what does Jesus’ resurrection prove to Christians about him being the son of god ?

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that he must be the son of god because only god would have the power to give a person life after they die

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what does Jesus’ resurrection suggest to Christians about life after death ?

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that there must be life after death

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what was the ascension ?

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40 days after Jesus’ resurrection he was taken up into heaven even though he hadn’t died a second time

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True or False Christians believe that there is no such thing as life after death ?

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False

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What do Christians believe about life after death ?

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That life after death is necessary to make the world fair.
e.g Heaven and Hell

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What do Christians think happens to the soul when you die ?

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Christians believe that your ‘soul’ leaves your body and goes to Heaven or Hell.

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what is judgement day ?

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Some Christians believe that at the end of time Jesus will return and take the ‘saved’ to heaven

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what does the Catholic Church teach about the afterlife ?

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that we will all spend some time in purgatory paying for our sins, before we are finally ready to enter Heaven.

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what do some Christians think you have to do in order to get to heaven ?

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Some Christians argue that we get to Heaven by doing ‘good works’
i.e., following the Laws in the Old Testament and following the example of Jesus

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