GLOSSARY Flashcards
Theist
Believes in God
Atheist
Doesn’t believe in God
Agnostic
Not sure wether God exists
Sources of wisdom and authority
Where religious teachings come from
Denominations
Different groups of christians
Omniscient
He is all-knowing
Omnipresent
He is all-present-everywhere all of the time
Omnipotent
He is all-powerful
Omnibenevolent
He is all- loving
Monotheistic
There is only one God
Transcendent
He is beyond time and space
Immanent
He is present within the universe, time and space
Eternal
God always has existed and always will
Trinity
There are three aspects - The Father, Son and The Holy Spirit
Forgiving
He forgives our sins if we asked forgiveness
Creator
He created the universe
Nature of God
What God is like or how people understand him
Personal
We can have a personal connection with God
Impersonal
We cannot fully know God
The Old Testament
The first part of the Bible , followed by Christians and Jews
The New Testament
The second part of the Bible written after Jesus’s birth
The Ten Commandments
There are 613 rules in the Bible, these are the most important 10
Parables
Stories that Jesus told with an important message or meaning
Gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John- wrote 4 books in the New Testament about the life of Jesus
