Nature Of Deity Flashcards
Transcendent
Outside of space and time
Eternal
Always have been and always will be
Creator ‘ex nihilo
Made everything out of nothing
Omniscient
All knowing
Omnibenevolent
All loving
Omnipotent
All powerful
Judge
God decides if you go to hell or heaven
Forgiving
God will always welcome those who have repented
One
Christians are monothiests
Trinity
3 parts of God father son Holy Spirit
Immanent
In the world
Personal
You can communicate with God
God
Supernatural creator of the universe
Miracle
When God acts in the world
Moral argument
The argument that our moral sense or conscience must have come from God
Religious experience
When someone directly experiences God, through a vision, dream or miracle
Theist
Someone that believes God exists
Design argument
The argument that everything in the world is so complex and well designed that it must have had a designer - God
Cosmological argument
The argument that there must be a ‘first cause’ to the universe and this was God
Apostles’ creed
An early statement of Christian belief
Father
One person of the threefold nature of God
Heaven
A Christian idea of paradise where the soul goes after death if it is free from sin to have eternal life with god
Holy Spirit
One person of the threefold nature of God
Incarnate
The doctoring that god took human from in Jesus
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Resurrection
The rising from the dead of Jesus Christ on the third day after the crucifixion
Son
One person of the threefold nature of God
Atheist
Someone who believes god doesn’t exist
Agnostic
Someone who believes God might exist, but that you can’t prove it either way
