Christianity: beliefs and teachings Flashcards
what do Christians believe about God
their is 1 God
“we believe in 1 god”
god is the creator and sustain of all life
you can have a relationship with god through prayers
omnipotent
benevolent
just
omnipotent
all powerful
unlimited athourity
benevolent
uses his power for good
shows his love for creating humans and caring for them
shows his love by sending Jesus to earth
just
just judge of humankind
never supports injustment, ill treatment, prejudice or oppression
problems of evil and suffering
the problems with suffering challenges the belief of Gods quality
they believe a just God treats people fairly, so they trust God when things seem to be wrong
give two ways in which Christians believe God shows benevolence
uses his power for good
cares for human kind
send his son to earth
the trinity
father, son and holy spirt
god is underzstood by chritsinas as a realtioship
god the father
creator of all life
good father toward his children
omnipotent
omnibenevolent
omniscient
omnipresent
god the son
incarated through jesus
who wa fully human and god at the same time on earth
god the holy spirit
is the unseen power of god at working the world.
creations genesis
“in the begining, god created the heavans and the earth”
many christans beive that while not sceintifily ture hold religous thruth
some belive the world was created in 6 days
he created everything out of choice everything good
some belive that god still creates new life today
creation john
“thw word was with god and the word was god”
it was creates by the word
some belive that the son of god the son of god was involved in the creation
jesus crucifixion what happened and why was it important
his last words “father into your hands i commit my spirit”
he was crusified on the cross
jesus sacrifice gave hope fo thier sins to be forgiven
god understood human suffering
christians accept that suffering is part of life
ressurection of jesus what happened
female folowers went to the cave
his body was not their
the significamce of he resurrection
shows the power of good over evil and life over death
christians sins will be forgiven
the significance of the ascension
jesus is with god in heaven
diffrent christian views about the resurrection
some believe a persons soul is resurrection soon after death
some belive the dead will be resurrection some time in the future
cathloic and orthodox belive in bodily resurrecion
others belive that it will just be spiritual
afterlife belifs
many belive they will be resurrected and recive eternal life
dependant on faith
juged by god
judegemt will happen soon after death or on judgment day
jugemtn after daeth belifs
juged on thier behavour and actions
parible of the sheep and the goats describe how people will be jugded
in serving others, they are serving jesus
orgins and meanings of sin
orginal sin- peopel belive humans are born with built in tendecys to sin
salvation
repairs the damige caused by sin
2 main ideas
doing good deed. old testemants
through grace.
the role of jesus in salvation
his cruxofiactio made up for the orginal sin
restore the relationship between god and beleives
gain enternal life.
atonement
removes the effect of sin
atoned for the sins of humanity
receives enternal life
