Vocab

Question 1

Theology

Answer 1

The study of God

Question 2

Philosophy

Answer 2

The love of Wisdom

Question 3

Belief

Answer 3

A feeling that something exists or is true even without proof

Question 4

Existential Question

Answer 4

Questions about nature and the existence of things

Question 5

Absolute truth

Answer 5

An answer or fact that is fixed or cannot be altered, no matter the situation

Question 6

Relative truth

Answer 6

An answer to a question that can change depending on time, place, situation or context

Question 7

Tolerance

Answer 7

Accepting other people and their views

Question 8

Worldview

Answer 8

The way in which someone answers questions in life and interprets information around them

Question 9

Secular

Answer 9

Someone who believes the ultimate truth comes only from empirically (scientific) verifiable sources

Question 10

Atheist

Answer 10

Someone who denies the existence of God

Question 11

Monotheism

Answer 11

Belief in one God

Question 12

Polytheism

Answer 12

Belief in many Gods

Question 13

Shahadah

Answer 13

Declaration of Faith, there is only one God and Muhammad is the final Prophet

Question 14

Salah

Answer 14

The requirement to pray five times a day

Question 15

Hajj

Answer 15

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 16

Zakah

Answer 16

The requirement to give 2.5% of your savings a year to charity

Question 17

Sawm

Answer 17

Fasting form Dawn to Dusk in Ramadan

Question 18

The Qu’ran

Answer 18

The Muslim Holy Book

Question 19

Minaret

Answer 19

A tower attached to a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer

Question 20

Recitation

Answer 20

Repeating something aloud from memory

Question 21

Muezzin

Answer 21

The person who calls Muslims to prayer

Question 22

Adhan

Answer 22

Islamic call to prayer

Question 23

Kah’ba

Answer 23

Black cube in the middle of Mecca, sacred pilgrim shine for Muslims, the stone inside it was said to have been given to Abraham by Gabriel

Question 24

Tawhid

Answer 24

The invisible oneness concept of monotheism in Islam

Question 25

Shirk

Answer 25

The sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism - any instance where you reduce God’s greatness

Question 26

Hafiz

Answer 26

A person who has learnt the entire Qu’ran

Question 27

Conservative Christian

Answer 27

A Christian who will take the words of the Bible to be true unless they have reason not to

Question 28

Liberal Christian

Answer 28

A Christian who takes much of the Bible to be metaphor rather than literally true

Question 29

Fundamentalist Christian

Answer 29

Christian who takes the word of the Bible to be literally true

Question 30

Synoptic problem

Answer 30

The problem of the literacy relationship among the first three Gospels

Question 31

Prophecy

Answer 31

A message given by God

Question 32

Messiah

Answer 32

The anointed one

Question 33

Q Source

Answer 33

A hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus’ sayings. Q is the part of the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not I the Gospel of Mark