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Omnipresent

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Present everywhere

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Omnibenevolent

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All loving

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Immanent

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‘Near’ or ‘God within all’

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Transcendent

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Beyond human experience

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Agape

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Christian love

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Anglican

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A worldwide denomination that includes the Church of England

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Ascension

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Jesus being taken up to heaven on the 40th day after Easter

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Atonement

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Making amends for wrong doing

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Baptism

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The ceremony to welcome a person into the religion

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Crucifixion

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A capital punishment used by the Romans which they nail a person to a cross to kill them

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Denomination

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The name for the different branches of the Christian church

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Fundamentalist

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Christians who take the bible literally

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Grace

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Unconditional love that god shows to people who don’t deserve it

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Historic truth

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Facts about historical events

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Incarnation

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God in human form

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Inconsistent triad

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Concept from JL Mackie to show that god can not be all loving and all powerful due to the existence of evil

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Nicene creed

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A statement of belief used in Christian services

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Natural evil

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Caused by nature eg-earthquake

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Moral evil

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Caused by humans eg-war

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Mission

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An organised effort to speak the message

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Miracles

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Events that have no scientific explanation

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Messiah

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The anointed one who is seen as a saviour by Christians

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Lord’s Prayer

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The prayer Jesus taught his disciples

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Trinity

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The belief in God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit

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St Paul

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A man who taught the teaching of Jesus

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Secular

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Relating to worldly as opposed to religious things

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Sanhedrin

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The ruling council of Jews in Israel

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Resuscitation

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The physical return of Jesus

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Orthodox

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A branch of Christian church

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Reconciliation

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Conflict friendly again

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Penitence

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To feel regt for someone’s sins

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