christian life

• omnipotent means all powerful
• omniscient means all knowing
• omni benevolent means all loving
• genis is the first book of the bible
• incarnation is jesus being god as a human being
• salvation is being saved from sin
• eschatology is life after death
• moral evil is caused by humans
• natural evil is caused by nature
• monotheistic means believing in one god
• the trinity is god being the father , son & holy spirt
• the creed is a statement of belief
• the father is the creator of everything
• the son is jesus ( god being a human )
• the holy spirt is the spirit of god that guides and inspires christians
• ‘ in the beginning god created heavens & the earth ‘ is a quote about the father
• why is the trinity important?

  -helps christian’s understand god

  -gives them different ways to worship

  -helps them direct their prayer

  -makes god less confusing
• literalist / creationists are christians who believe the genesis story literally
• non literalist christians interpret the bible as a story not fact
• what is evidence jesus was a man?

  -lived a normal life on earth

  -he had emotions

  -he had a human mother

  -he suffered & felt pain
• what is evidence that jesus was a god?

  -he cured someones blindness

  -he cured someones lepracy

  -he fed 5000 people

  -he was resurrected

  -he was born from a virgin
• lent is when jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days
• palm sunday is when jesus entered jerusalem
• maundy thursday is the last supper
• good friday is when jesus ‘ died ‘
• easter sunday is when jesus was resurrected
• the ascension is when jesus went to heaven
• in the last supper the bread & wine symbolised jesus’ body & blood
• why did jesus die?

  -he’d forfilled his purpose

  -to prove he was god

  -to open heaven
• ransom theory is jesus paying the price of death so people could get into heaven
• penal substitution theory is jesus paying the penalty for human sin
• each life has a purpose & death isn’t the end of our existence which is why we have a soul
• heaven is a holy place with no sin or sadness
• perpatory is an area between heaven and hell where you go to purify
• original sin is when adam & eve betrayed god & they were punished