Vocab Flashcards

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Theology

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The study of God

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Philosophy

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The love of Wisdom

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Belief

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A feeling that something exists or is true even without proof

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Existential Question

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Questions about nature and the existence of things

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Absolute truth

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

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Relative truth

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

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Tolerance

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Accepting other people and their views

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Worldview

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

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Secular

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

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10
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Atheist

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Someone who denies the existence of God

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Monotheism

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Belief in one God

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12
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Polytheism

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Belief in many Gods

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Shahadah

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

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14
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Salah

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The requirement to pray five times a day

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15
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Hajj

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Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Zakah

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

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Sawm

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Fasting form Dawn to Dusk in Ramadan

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The Qu’ran

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The Muslim Holy Book

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Q

Minaret

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

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Recitation

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Repeating something aloud from memory

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Muezzin

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The person who calls Muslims to prayer

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Adhan

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Islamic call to prayer

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Q

Kah’ba

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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

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Tawhid

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The invisible oneness concept of monotheism in Islam

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Shirk
The sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism - any instance where you reduce God's greatness
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Hafiz
A person who has learnt the entire Qu'ran
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Conservative Christian
A Christian who will take the words of the Bible to be true unless they have reason not to
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Liberal Christian
A Christian who takes much of the Bible to be metaphor rather than literally true
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Fundamentalist Christian
Christian who takes the word of the Bible to be literally true
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Synoptic problem
The problem of the literacy relationship among the first three Gospels
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Prophecy
A message given by God
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Messiah
The anointed one
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Q Source
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