Redemption Flashcards
What does redemption mean?
Making up for wrongs
Why did God give us free will?
God gave humans free will - he wants us to actively choose him
Therefore, sin has to exist
What are we born with?
Original sin,
All people are born with the tendency to sin.
Sin broke the relationship between God and humanity
Jesus’ resurrection helped restore our relationship with God
What did Jesus death show?
Jesus showed total obedience to the Father
His death restored cosmic order
What did Jesus resurection show?
Jesus destroyed the power of sin and death
Helped restore creation (make it perfect)
What did Jesus Ascension do?
Jesus rose up to heaven
He helped restore the ‘cosmic order’
What did Jesus resurrection do?
Made life after death possible
Whats a ressurection quote?
‘If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile [useless] and you are still in your sins’
Salvation meaning?
freedom from sin – heaven is available to us
How did salvation happen in the past?
Jesus desth and resurrection
How does salvation happen in the present?
It is ongoing – sin exists
We can accept or reject God
We need to work for it
How will salvation happen in the future?
Salvation will be completed at the end of time and when we are judged
What is the 4 steps to Jesus redemption?
Death
Burial
Resurrection
Ascension
Atonement meaning?
Making amends for your wrongdoing
Quote for death?
“At the moment of death, there was an earthquake followed by darkness”
Quote for burial?
“Descended into heaven”
Quote for resurrection?
“If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are in your sins”
What happened at Jesus’s death?
He’s fulfilled old Testament prophecies.
He showed obedience and love to God.
His death helped restored cosmic order
What happened at Jesus’s burial?
He was descended into heaven, and freed those who had died before him and they went to heaven with him.
He had promised that his people will follow where he has gone
What did Jesus’s resurrection show?
Shows life after death is now possible.
Humans are immortal again and sins and death can be overcome.
What did Jesus’s Ascension show?
40 days after the resurrection, Jesus rose up to heaven.
This shows he is worth the father.
They believe they will also be raised into heaven, and Jesus promised the Holy Spirit
What are three symbols for Christians?
Cross
Crucifix.
Risen Christ
What does the cross show?
The plane cross emphasises Jesus resurrection
Tend to be used in protestant churches
What does the crucifix show?
Roman Catholics tend to focus on the suffering that Jesus went through to redeem us.
They have the figure of Jesus dying on the cross
What does the risen Christ show?
Emphasises Jesus victory of death.
It is still a crucifix, but Jesus is alive and shows that there is life after death for those who believe
How does a church inspire worship?
Is beauty shows God’s glory and raises are mine to heaven.
Provides a space to meet and worship.
The statues and stations of the cross and help people to reflect when Jesus is suffering
What does ‘A’ church mean?
A building
What does ‘The’ church mean?
The people
What was catholic church before 1965?
They were built facing Jerusalem.
Built in the shape of a cross.
The altar was against the east Wall.
The mass was said in Latin with the priest facing away from the congregation
What were Catholic churches like after 1965?
The altar is physically closer to the people.
The altar is often in the centre of the church with seats around it so that all people feel included.
The priest faces the congregation.
Masses are said in local languages
Whats the pulpit?
Where the word of God is explained
Whats the high altar?
Raised up high in the sanctury
It is the focal point of the building
What happens at the altar?
Is placed in front of the century
Where the bread and wine are blessed
What is the Lecturn?
This is where the Bible read from
What is the baptismal font?
Where baptism happens
Who is St Irenaeus?
He made the analogy of the two trees.
The tree of knowledge which led to the humanitys fall
The tree of the cross, which led humanity being saved
Who is St Anselm?
Made the anthology that Jesus paid the price of death to free us from sin.
It is already in the bag and we have been saved
What is the mass for Catholics?
It is the source and summit of Christian life
What does it mean the source?
It is the beginning
holy communion, gives us the strength to resist sin
What does it mean in the summit?
It means the aim, and the mass is a reenactment of Christ sacrifice, so is the highest form of prayer
What does source and summit mean overall?
The beginning and the end
What is the Eucharist adoration?
A short service in which the real presence of Christ is adored and praise.
And during Eucharist adoration is when a person is blessed with the real presence of Christ.
The concentrated bread is put on display in the monstance
What does the monstance do?
Displays the body of Christ
Name, three parts of the mass
The readings
Offertory
Eucharistic prayer
Our father
Communion
Lamb of God
End of mass
What is conscience?
Christian, the conscience is the voice of God in their hearts, guiding them to make the right choices
What are the two sides to conscience?
Natural instinct: we instinctively know the right thing to do (natural law)
Needs to be educated: shape, developed so we can interpret it correctly, listening to other church teachings
What’s the heavenly banquet?
Catholics believe that a mass is a chance to experience what the heavenly banquet will be like.
It is the victory celebration that will happen when salvation is complete.
Everyone in Heaven will join together for a meal
A quote for institution
“Take this and eat of it for this is my body which will be given for you”
“do this in memory of me”
What are Roman Catholic churches like?
It has statues, pictures, stain glass windows and the emphasis is always about focus on receiving holy communion and Jesus suffering
The bread and wine is Jesus’s body and blood
What are orthodox Christian churches like?
Highly decorated.
They believe that the bread and wine becomes the actual body and blood of Christ.
The consecration takes place behind a iconostasis, as if it is too healthy to receive by congregation
What are protestant Christian churches like?
They are plane and this is so attention is completely on Praying to God.
The focus on the pulpit, and this is to hear the God’s word from the Bible, not holy communion.
Most protestants believe the communion is just bread and wine
