Christian Beliefs

• Monotheism - there is only one God
• Creator Being - God alone created everything and sustains the world
• Omnibenevolent - all loving
• omniscient - all knowing
• omnipotent - all powerful
• omnipresent - all present
• incorporeal - without form/ not material existence
• transcendent - God is not limited by space and time, working beyond the world
• immanent - God works within the world
• Conscience - a person's moral sense of right and wrong. Some religious believers think it is the voice of God
• The Father - God the father. Reinforced in the Lord's Prayer - 'our Father, who art in heaven'
• The son - who had lived on earth amongst human beings as Jesus Christ
• The spirit - who fills Christians with new life and power
• Creationists - those hwo believ that the universe and life was the result of specific acts of God creating (eventhing is part of God's plan)
• Creation Ex Nihilio - creation out of nothing
• Imago dei - image og God
• Sanctity of life - God created all life uniquely with a plan
• Dominion - God has given humanity superiority over the rest of the creation
• Stewardship - Humanity has been given a special caretakes role by God, to look after His creation
• Good - Upholding God's law
• Evil - profoundly immoral and wicked; against Gods law
• Natural Evil - Cause by 'divine' actvity
• Moral Evil - caused by human activity
• Theodicy - justifying God, even though evil exists
• Suffering - enduring physical or metal pain; the bearing of pain or distress
• Heaven - a state of eternal happiness in the presence of God; the place of eternal peace
• Hell - the place of eternal suffering or the state of being without God
• Purgatory - pending judgement for further repentance (Roman Catholic belief). An intermediate state where soulds are cleansed in order to enter heaven
• Judgement - Christians believe that every soul will be judged by God and rewarded or punished
• ‘God so loves the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life’ – John 3:16
• ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth’ – Genesis 1:1
• ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’ – Genesis 1:26
• ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’ – John 1:1
• ‘The one who believes in me will live, even though they die’ – John 11:25
• ‘The kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world’ – Matthew 25:33-35 (The Parable of the Sheep and Goats)
• ‘You who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels’ – Matthew 25:41 (The Parable of the Sheep and Goats)
• ‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life’ – Matthew 25:46
• ‘It is raised a spiritual body’ – 1 Corinthians 15:44
• ‘The Word became flesh and lived amongst us’ – John 1:14
• ‘All are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ’ – Romans 3:23