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• Monotheistic

  Belief in one God
• The opposite of monotheism is
• Omnipotent

  All-powerful
• Omniscient

  All-knowing
• Omnibenevolent

  All-loving
• Just

  Fair and righteous
• God is often referred to as Lord (Hebrew – Adonai) and the name God comes from a description of his power
• In the book of Exodus God reveals himself to Moses and when asked who he is says 'I am that I am' or Yahweh in Hebrew
• Christians believe in one God and believe it to be the same God as Jews and Muslims worship as they all trace their roots back to Abraham
• The first of the Ten Commandments says 'you shall have no other gods before me'
• Transcendent

  Beyond all limits
• John 4:24: 'God is a spirit'
• Luke 1:37: 'Nothing is impossible with God'
• Christians believe that God is All Powerful and can do anything
• Examples of God's power

  • Making Mary pregnant with Jesus
  • Creating the universe
  • Resurrecting Jesus from the dead
  • The 10 plagues of Egypt
• Psalm 147:5: 'His understanding is infinite'
• Christians believe that God is All Knowing; that He knows everything that has happened and will happen
• There is an issue with God being All Knowing and the idea of Free Will
• John 3:16: 'God so loved the world that He gave his only Son'
• Christians believe that God is All Loving and cares for us all like a Father
• Examples of God's love

  • Leading the Hebrews out of Egypt
  • Resurrecting Jesus to allow us into Heaven
• Christians believe that God is a judge and will give out justice
• Deuteronomy 32:3-4: 'Everything He does is Just and fair'
• Christians believe that God will never support injustice or unfairness
• Many Christian charities are based on the idea of God's justice and fairness
• The Trinity

  The Christian belief that God is in 3 different forms: The Father, The Son (Jesus), and The Holy Spirit
• Though Christians believe in one God (Monotheism), they believe He is in 3 different forms
• God - The Father

  Creator of the universe, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, Just being within the heavens
• Jesus - The Son

  God INCARNATE, both human and God at the same time
• John 1:1: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God'
• Holy Spirit

  The doer of God's works on earth, responsible for making Mary pregnant and delivering messages to the apostles
• Apostles' Creed

  • I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
  • I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
  • I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
• Nicene Creed


  • We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible.
  • And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the begotten of God the Father, the Only-begotten, that is of the essence of the Father. God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten and not made; of the very same nature of the Father, by Whom all things came into being, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Who for us humanity and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate, was made human, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. By whom He took body, soul, and mind, and everything that is in man, truly and not in semblance. He suffered, was crucified, was buried, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven with the same body, [and] sat at the right hand of the Father. He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father, to judge the living and the dead; of His kingdom there is no end.
  • We believe in the Holy Spirit, in the uncreated and the perfect; Who spoke through the Law, prophets, and Gospels; Who came down upon the Jordan, preached through the apostles, and lived in the saints.
• The birth of Jesus can be found in just 2/66 books in the Bible, yet it is an incredibly important story for Christians around the world
• Messiah

  The figure the Jews had been waiting for
• Magi


  Wise men who visited the baby Jesus
• Both the Gospels of Matthew and Luke agree that Jesus was born to Nazarene parents - Mary and Joseph, that Mary had become pregnant through the Holy Spirit, and that Jesus was born in Bethlehem
• There is very little information about Jesus' life between his birth and the age of 30 when he begins his ministry
• All 4 gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, teach about Jesus' ministry from the age of 30 until his death aged 33
• Blasphemous

  Showing a lack of reverence for God