Christian beliefs

• 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 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
• Creeds

  • Apostles' Creed
  • Nicene Creed
• The Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed outline Christian beliefs about the Trinity
• The birth of Jesus can be found in just 2/66 books in the Bible, yet it is an incredibly important story for Christians
• Messiah

  The Messiah that Jews had been waiting for
• Magi


  Wise men who visited Jesus at his birth
• The books of Matthew and Luke have some differences in their accounts of Jesus' birth, but both 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

  Claiming to be equal to God, which was considered a very serious offense