GOD

Question 1

God as masculine

Answer 1

Gender specific language
Royal line of kings
Would God have been taken seriously otherwise?

Psalms: god as a sovereign/king

Father who created the human race

King: isiah : vision on throne

Question 2

God as an architect/creator

Answer 2

We are the clay, you are the potter?

God set the earth in its foundation and it shall never be shaken

Question 3

God as Love

Answer 3

Sent Jesus to be sacrificed

‘Let us love each other for love is God’

The greatest gift of the spirit is God

Question 4

God as contradictory

Answer 4

Monotheistic, trinity,

Transcendent + immanent
My ways are higher than your ways

Omnipotent, omnibenevolent and the creator of all things

Human qualities?
Forgiveness = conscious mind

Question 5

God as a Monotheistic Religion

Answer 5

‘Before me no God was formed’
‘Who is like thee among the Gods’
Ethical monotheism: any person who strays from beliefs of monotheism will be ‘called away from heaven’

Question 6

God as Father

Answer 6

Reflects patriarchal Middle Eastern society
Deutronomy - father who creates the human race
ABBA - daddy

Question 7

God as creator

Answer 7

Process theology - out of already existing matter

Ex deo - out of God’s own being
Ex nihilo - out of nothing

Can god do the logically impossible

Question 8

Jesus as son of god

Answer 8

Separate ‘there is one lord our father and one lord Jesus Christ’ (Corinthians)

‘I and the father are one’ - mainstream

Question 9

Significance of the Trinity

Answer 9

Hypostasis - unity & divinity - ‘glorify the father so that he may glorify me’