Paper 2 Sin and Forgiveness

Question 1

Define Sin

Answer 1

Acting against the will or laws of God

Question 2

Define Absolutism

Answer 2

The belief that there are certain actions that are always right or always wrong.
The belief that moral laws exist eternally and are not just human inventions.

Question 3

Define Relativism

Answer 3

The belief that there is no moral law.

Rules that govern what is right and wrong are human inventions and change from place to place and from age to age.

Question 4

Define Salvation

Answer 4

The belief that through Jesus’ death and resurrection people can live forever with God.

Question 5

Define Punishment

Answer 5

The consequences of a wrong decisions.

A penalty given by a person in authority on the person who has committed wrongdoing.

Question 6

Define Forgiveness

Answer 6

The act of pardoning someone for the offences they have caused you.
Overlooking a person’s faults.

Question 7

Define Evangelism

Answer 7

Literally means spreading the “good news” which we translate as Gospel.
The sharing of the Gospel and life of Jesus with others.

Question 8

Define Eucharist

Answer 8

Meaning “thanksgiving”.

The name of Catholics use to describe when the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus