R.E.- Component 1

Question 1

Creation ex nihilo

Answer 1

Creation out of nothing. Chiristians believed God created the world out of nothing and only God can create out of nothing.

Question 2

Evolution

Answer 2

The process of mutation and natural selection in a species over a period of time to suit a particular environment.

Question 3

Imago Dei

Answer 3

In the image of God. The belief that humans are a unique refelection of God’s personhood. Means that humans are free, rational and moral.

Question 4

Inspiration

Answer 4

God breathed. The belief that the Holy Spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good and true.

Question 5

Ominipotent

Answer 5

The belief that God is all powerful. Because he created the universe in 6 days.

Question 6

Revelation

Answer 6

The words used to describe all the differents ways God has make himself know to humankind. Believes that God does this finally through Jesus Christ.

Question 7

Stewardship

Answer 7

The duty to care for creation responsibly. Beliefs that we should take care of it as stward and not consumers and protect it for future generations.

Question 8

Transcendent

Answer 8

Exisiting outside of time and space. God exists in a way like nothing else because he is above and beyond creation.

Question 9

Causation

Answer 9

The idesa that everything has a cause and God is the cause of the unicerse.

Question 10

Eternal

Answer 10

Without beginning or end

Question 11

Cosmology

Answer 11

The branch of science that studies the origins of the universe.

Question 12

Natural Selection

Answer 12

A process in which animals better adapt to their environment to survive.

Question 13

Sanctity of Life

Answer 13

The belief that human life is sacred as it is a gift from God.

Question 14

Conception

Answer 14

When sperm meets an egg and fertilisation occurs

Question 15

Abortion

Answer 15

The removal of a foetus from the womb to terminate a pregnancy

Question 16

Relative

Answer 16

The idea that truth and moral values are not fixed but depends on the situation.

Question 17

Quality of Life

Answer 17

The idea that life must have benefits for it to be worth living.

Question 18

Pro Life

Answer 18

Belief that abortion is wrong in every circumstance and all human have the right to live

Question 19

Pro Choice

Answer 19

Beliefs that the mother has the right to choose what happens to her body and so can have an abortion if she wishes.

Question 20

Speciesism

Answer 20

The idea that human life is more important that any other life.

Question 21

Immanent

Answer 21

God is close to his creation and involved with the world so that he can make himself known.

Question 22

Conscience

Answer 22

Human reason making moral decision. Christians believe there is a God-given compulsion within all human to do what is right.

Question 23

Evil

Answer 23

The abscence of good. The impluse to seek our own desire at the expense of other’s suffering

Question 24

Free will

Answer 24

A person is able to choose right or wrong wothout being controlled by other forces.

Question 25

Goodness

Answer 25

The quality of being like God.

Question 26

Natural Law

Answer 26

The moral laws of right and wrong which are universal. The belief that moral law is discoverable by every human being and is same for all human beings at all places and time

Question 27

Privation

Answer 27

The loss or absence of a quality or something that is normally present. Evil is the privation of good.

Question 28

Suffering

Answer 28

Pain or loss which harms human beings. Some are caused by humans while others are caused by nature.