Key Concepts

• Omnipotent

  The idea that God is all powerful
• Revelation

  The word used to describe all the ways in which God makes himself known to human beings.
• Creation ex nihilo

  A Latin phrase meaning creation ‘out of nothing’. For Christians this is the idea that the universe was created out of nothing
• Evolution

  The gradual development of something. Charles Darwin believed all different species on earth developed over time from simple life forms
• Imago Dei

  Translated from latin as ‘the image of God’. Humans are created in the image of God.
• Inspiration

  Means ‘God breathed’. Christians believe that the ideas contained in the Bible are inspired by the Holy Spirit
• Stewardship

  Looking after something so it can be passed on to the next generation
• Transcendence

  The idea that God exists above and beyond the physical world