God and Humanity

Question 1

What is the fall

Answer 1

What happened when Adam and Eve disobeyed

Ate apple from tree of life

Question 2

What is the meaning of the Fall

Answer 2

• We have God given free will, we have the power to disobey God if we choose to
• Shows the repercussions that come with disobeying God, what happens when we give into temptation

Question 3

What do the characters in the fall represent

Answer 3

Snake - temptation
Apple - gods trust / our desires
tree - gods power and boundaries
god - the correct path

Question 4

What are the results of the fall

Answer 4

• thrown out of garden of eden
• painful child birth
• man has to work hard
• ruined relationship between man and god
• humans will die

Question 5

Quote from Genesis about how humans are going to die

Answer 5

‘you are dust, to dust you shall return.’

Question 6

Differences between Genesis one and two? (3)

Answer 6

• Eve made from Adam’s rib as partner and helper in genesis 2
• Man made first in Gensis 2
• Genesis 1 more like story, Genesis 2 more like poem

Question 7

What did augstine think about the fall?

Answer 7

• God condemned humans to eternal damnation because of Adam’s sin
• Humanity is chronically flawed
• Woman’s only use is child bearing, passed contagion of sin

Question 8

What is Concupiscence

Answer 8

Desire to take pleasure in creatures instead of God, we are polluted with desire

Question 9

What are the three interpretations of Jesus’ death

Answer 9

• Cross as victory
• Cross as satisfaction
• Cross as moral example

Question 10

What is cross as victory

Answer 10

Christ defeats powers of evil capturing humans and frees them

Question 11

Strengths of cross as victory (2)

Answer 11

• shows the power of evil

- assures god’s victory

Question 12

Weaknesses of cross as victory (1)

Answer 12

misleading if taken literally because it reduces humanity of christ

Question 13

what is satisfaction theory (3)

Answer 13

• Jesus was a sacrifice to please god
• suffering as being way that humankind is redeemed
• humans must provide satisfaction

Question 14

strengths of satisfaction theory (3)

Answer 14

• seriousness of sin
• humanity of christ made clear
• in context for medieval times - presents to kings

Question 15

What is cross as moral example

Answer 15

shows gods love so that we respond with gratitude and wonder

Question 16

Strengths of cross moral example

Answer 16

shows gods unconditional love

Question 17

weaknesses of cross as moral example

Answer 17

underestimates the power of evil

Question 18

What happened with jesus’ resurrection

Answer 18

Body put in tomb, then disappeared, appeared to disciples and women. Could appear and disappear.
Jesus defeated death

Question 19

What did Paul think about resurrection

Answer 19

it was an eschatological event which affirmed the new age

Question 20

What did Paul say about new age

Answer 20

• God would appear from clouds
• dead would rise first
• those alive would rise
• new imperishable body

Question 21

What did book of revelations say

Answer 21

Future divided into heaven and hell
hell - firey lake
heaven - new Jerusalem

Question 22

Who will be saved when new age comes? (3)

Answer 22

A - ALL - universalism, everyone goes to heaven
B - BELIEVERS - only those with faith
C - CHOSEN FEW - God chooses

Question 23

How can the resurrection and future be interpreted

Answer 23

• as a historical event
• as a symbolic myth
• reality but not to be taken literally

Question 24

what do protestants think about death

Answer 24

just heaven and hell

need faith in jesus and bible

Question 25

What do roman catholics think about death

Answer 25

we go to purgatory then heaven or hell | need faith sacraments and good deeds to go to heaven

Question 26

Aquinas view (2)

Answer 26

- 'cause in esse' - relationship of dependence. Depend for initial and complete existence. Efficient cause of the universe. - can be compared to electricity and TV, supply must be there continuously needs to be there as a constant presence.

Question 27

John Hick view (3)

Answer 27

- world created imperfectly so that every imperfect being can develop in a soul making process into a child of god. - god created us with an epistemic distance. God wants us to be genuinely loving so he gives them free will. If God interfered we would not be able to make a genuine decision. - Vardy analogy --> king loves peasant girl, could force her to marry him. Disguises as peasant and he falls in love with him so that the love is genuine.

Question 28

John Clavin view (3)

Answer 28

- predestination. God determines who will be saved. - Doctrine of divine election. Some people are destined for a relationship with god and some are not. - Double predestination - chosen to save some and not other. God acts in the life of some

Question 29

Problems with John Calvin's double predestination (2)

Answer 29

- not okay with idea that some are chosen to have relationship with God irrelevant of how they lived their lives. Someone who lives morally could go to hell. - prefer the idea of God as a judge who choses whether they go to hell or heaven depending on how they have acted.

Question 30

Freud's view - guilt (5)

Answer 30

- 'totemic religion arose from the filial sense of guilt.' - Idea of primitive men is hordes who were ruled by powerful father. Father god jealous of sons because wanted all women for himself. - Drove sons away. Had mixed feelings, admiration and bitterness, so they killed the father. - felt very guilty, created totem animal to worship as a father substitute. Animal is sacrificed each year as a tribute. - this is where religion came from. Father eventually gained divine significance.

Question 31

Freud view - helplessness (4)

Answer 31

- no proof for god yet sensible men and women still have faith so God contains the wishes of those men and women, which are so important that they cancel any doubts about the truth of the religion itself. - God helps us to deal with helplessness, teaches that he is watching over us and will make up for our suffering. - feeling helpless during childhood, comforted by protection of father, in adulthood we dont have this protection so respond by turning to god. - god is nothing more than wishful thinking/ illusion.

Question 32

Emile Durkheim (5)

Answer 32

- 'a unified sytem of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things.' - religion unites groups of people in a moral community who share a set of beliefs. Religion is a reality which exists in society and cannot be separated from society. - religion is a 'mode of action' it unites society, like a glue - Abriginal society - beliefs linked with totemic object, treated as sacred thing. Totem was symbol of tribe. - Challenges religious beliefs because claims origin of religion is not divine, instead its a product of society, if there was no society the idea of god would not have been invented.

Question 33

Marx (3)

Answer 33

- religion is the creation of society. An illusion that provides reason and excuses to keep society functioning in a certain way. - people put up with the suffering and oppression in hope of a spiritual reward. 'opium of the poor'. - lets the rich keep their money and power without the poor rebelling.