Christianity - beliefs and teachings

Question 1

what are 6 characteristics of God and their meaning?

Answer 1

1. omnipotent - all powerful
2. omnibenevolent - all loving
3. omniscient - all knowing
4. transcendent - eternal/ not in time
5. immortal - lives forever
6. omnipresent - present everywhere

Question 2

What is a quote for God’s omnipotence?

Answer 2

‘Nothing is impossible with God’
- Luke 1:37

Question 3

What is a quote for God’s omnibenevolence?

Answer 3

‘Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.’
- 1 John 4:8
- John 3:16

Question 4

What is a quotes that shows God is just?

Answer 4

‘For God shows no partiality.’
- Romans 2:11

Question 5

What quote shows that God is omniscient and eternal?

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Answer 5

‘… The Lord is the everlasting God… his understanding is unsearchable’

• Isaiah 40:28

Question 6

what is a denomination?

Answer 6

a group of Christians with their own traditions

Question 7

What is the nature of God?

Answer 7

Christian beliefs about God’s characteristics and personality

Question 8

What is the holy trinity?

Answer 8

God the Father - creator of things
God the Son - Incarnate of God
God the Holy Spirit - the unseen power of God , influence and guidance for Christians

Question 9

What happened on each day of the creation story?

Answer 9

Day 1: God created day and night
Day 2: God separated water and created the sky
Day 3: God created vegetation and trees
Day 4: God created the stars and the moon
Day 5: God created living creatures
Day 6: God created Adam and Eve
Day 7: God rested

Question 10

What quote suggest Jesus was there during the creation story?

Answer 10

’ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.’

• John 1:1-3

Question 11

what does incarnation mean?

Answer 11

becoming flesh, taking human form

Question 12

what does crucifxion mean?

Answer 12

Roman method of execution by which criminals are fixed to a cross

Question 13

what does resurrection mean?

Answer 13

rising from the dead

Question 14

what is blasphemy?

Answer 14

a religious offence which includes claiming to be God

Question 15

what is ascension?

Answer 15

the event, 40 days after the resurrection, when Jesus returned to God in heaven

Question 16

What is heaven?

Answer 16

a state of eternal happiness in the presence of God; the place of eternal peace ruled over by God

Question 17

Which group wanted Jesus dead?

Answer 17

The Sanhedrin

Question 18

What is hell?

Answer 18

the place of eternal suffering or the state of being without God

Question 19

What is purgatory?

Answer 19

the intermediate state where the soul is cleansed to enter heaven

Question 20

what is salvation?

Answer 20

to be saved from sin and the consequences of it and be granted eternal life

Question 21

Reasons for and against
‘ it is impossible to sin’

Answer 21

For:
- original sin
- sin has taken over the world
- Satan is always tempting us

Against
- baptism

Question 22

what is atonement?

Question 23

What is the difference between original sin and sin?

Answer 23

The original sin is the built in tendency to do bad things and disobey God

Sin is actually doing the bad and disobeying God