Creation

Question 1

What is the meaning of Sanctity of Life?

Answer 1

That all life is holy and sacred

Question 2

What is the meaning of Transcendent?

Answer 2

That God is beyond and outside life and universe.

Question 3

What does Stewardship mean?

Answer 3

That God expects humans to look after the world and take care of it on his behalf.

Question 4

What does Omnipotent mean?

Answer 4

All powerful.

Question 5

What are the three characteristics of God?

Answer 5

Omnipotent, Transcendent and Creator.

Question 6

What does Omnipotent mean?

Answer 6

That God has the power to do whatever he wants and that the belief in God’s omnipotence inspires christians to trust in God.

Question 7

What does Transcendent mean?

Answer 7

That God is beyond human understanding and he only needs his own word to create.

Question 8

What does Creator mean?

Answer 8

That God is the only creator and has created everything and that God created humans in his own image, which means that humans share qualities with God like Love and Compassion.

Question 9

What are the 5 characteristics of humans?

Answer 9

Image dei, Dignity, Sanctity of life, free will and Stewardship.

Question 10

What is Imago Dei?

Answer 10

It means the Image of God and christians believe that God made humans in his own likeness and image.

Question 11

What does dignity mean?

Answer 11

In Genesis 1 it says that God made humans “in his image” which means that all humans are equal and are worthy of honour and respect.

Question 12

What does the Sanctity of Life mean?

Answer 12

In Genesis 1, God blesses humans after he creates them and Catholics believe that all creation is holy because it has been created and blessed by God.

Question 13

What is Free Will?

Answer 13

It describes how God made the garden of Eden for Adam to live in.

Question 14

What does Stewardship mean?

Answer 14

That humans were given power and authority to rule over all other creatures and in Gensis 2, God puts Adam in the Garden of Eden to ‘till it and keep it’ which suggests we should look after the world with care and love.

Question 15

What are the two different interpretations of Genesis?

Answer 15

Literal who are Fundamentalists and Non-literal who are Catholics.

Question 16

What do Fundamentalists (literal) believe?

Answer 16

They believe that thr Bible is a factual record which describes events exactly as they happened.

Question 17

What do Non-literals believe?

Answer 17

The catholic church teaches that these creation stories are myths which means they are stories intended to convey deep spiritual meanings. And catholics believe creation stories are not meant to be scientific explanations of what happend.

Question 18

What is Natural Law?

Answer 18

The idea that humans are born with an understanding of what is right and wrong, following natural law is important as it is part of God’s will for humans, as they should not need rules to tell them what is right.

Question 19

What does the Old Testament talk about?

Answer 19

It describes how God guided the Jews throughout their early history, before Jesus and it contains four main sectors, Law, History, Wisdom and Prophecy.

Question 20

What does the New Testament talk about?

Answer 20

It deals with the life and teachings of Jesus and his apostles. It is split into four main sections, The Gospels, The acts of the apostles, The Epistles and The book of revelation.

Question 21

What were the Prophets?

Answer 21

They were people who were inspired by God and they warned and guided people to remain faithful to God.

Question 22

What are the Gospels?

Answer 22

They tell us of the actions and teachings of Jesus in the Gospels.

Question 23

What are the Epistles?

Answer 23

They contain the writings of the apostles in the Epistles.

Question 24

What are the genres of the Bible?

Answer 24

-Historical/Law Narrative
-Wisdom
-Poetry