'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet' (Surah 3.18)
Salah
'Woe to those who pray, but are unmindful of their prayer, or who pray only to be seen by people' Qur'an 107:4-6
Zakah
"And those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah – give them tidings of a painful punishment." Surah 9:34
Saum
'Oh believers! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was for those before you that you may learn self restraint.' Qur'an 2:183
Hajj
"Pilgrimage to the House is a duty towards God upon humankind, for those who can find a way there." Qur'an
Festivals
'Verily it is only a festival for he whose fast Allah has accepted and whose prayers he has acknowledged…' Imam Ali
Jihad
'The person who struggles so that Allah's word is supreme is the one serving Allah's cause.' (Hadith)
Ibrahim said: ‘For me, I have set my face towards the One who has created the skies and the Earth. I will never make partners with Allah’ (Qur’an 6:79) ‘Indeed I am going to set a vicegerent (earthly representative of Allah) on the earth’ (Surah 2.30)
‘We have sent among you a messenger of your own… and instructing you in scripture and wisdom, and in new knowledge’ (Surah 2.151)
“Say, never will we be struck except by what Allah has decreed for us; He is our protector.” (Surah 9:51)
Psalm 95:1-11: 'let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!'
Prayer
Go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret for your father knows what you need before you ask him
Sacraments
All of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? Just as Christ was raised from the dead we too may live a new life.
Celebrations
Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him
The work of the Christian community
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
John Bunyan (from Pilgrims Progress): 'I'll labour night and day to be a pilgrim'
Christian mission and evangelism
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Martin Luther King Jr: 'I have decided to stick with love. 'hate is too great a burden to bear.'
The worldwide church
Omnibenevolent - The belief God is all-loving
Omnipotent – The belief God is all powerful, able todoanything
Trinity – refers to God being three persons in one. The Father, the Son and the HolySpirit
Resurrection - he physical return of Jesus on the thirdday after he died
Salvation - The saving of the soul from sin
John 3:16: 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life'
God's love for his creation
Allowing his son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for sin and giving them access to heaven
Views on the afterlife
Physical place to fundamentalists
Union with God to liberal Christians
Jesus: 'I am the way, The Truth and The Life. No one comes to The Father except through me'
Jesus and the Father
Are one
Salvation
Requires faith in Jesus
Hebrews 12:2: 'Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God'
Jesus' suffering on the cross
A shameful form of capital punishment reserved for criminals
Jesus' crucifixion
Christians and God are reconciled, joined again as they had been separated by sin
The Big Bang Theory
The universe began 13.8 billion years ago, with an explosion that caused everything to be flung outwards
Scientists know the universe is still expanding and the movement can all be tracked back to a single point
Background microwave radiation is evidence of the Big Bang, as explosions cause radiation that can still be detected in space
Scientific Truth
1. Make a hypothesis
2. Repeated testing
3. Tests confirm or disprove your idea
Darwin's theory of evolution
The world is the result of change and adaptation, evolution, a struggle for survival, natural selection - creatures adapt or become extinct
Religious Truth
Comes from religious experience and holy books, can be open to interpretation but the words do not change, it is eternal
Genesis Creation Story
1. Seven day creation
2. God separates light from darkness, land from sea, plants, animals and humans
3. Humans are 'specially created', creation is described as good, it is created out of nothing 'ex nihilo'
Interpretations of Genesis Creation Story
Fundamentalists/literalists say creation occurred in 6 days, not through evolution
Liberal/Non-literalists have a symbolic understanding, God started creation but it occurred through evolution
Some Christians believe God uses scientific processes to create the universe
Stewardship
Looking after the world and leaving it in a better state for future generations
Christians believe God gave humans dominion, that is the right to decide what happens in the world and all the species in it
Environmental abuse
Pollution
Acid rain
Fertiliser
Pesticide
Litter
Light pollution
Noise pollution
Global warming
Temperatures everywhere are getting higher, the surface temperature will increase between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees centigrade before 2100
Climate change is causing extreme weather like storms and floods, due to greenhouse gases, especially CO2 from fossil fuels