christianity key quotes

• Saint Paul: 'Christ died for our sins'
• Good Friday


  Jesus dying on the cross as the ultimate sacrifice, an act of atonement for the forgiveness of sin and restoring the relationship between fallen humanity and God
• John the Baptist: 'Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world'
• Salvation through Grace


  Jesus, who is sinless, gives up his life on the cross so that sin can be forgiven, even though humans don't deserve it because of their sinfulness
• Jesus: 'Nobody comes to the father except through me'
• Exclusivism


  Only through Christ can one know God and be saved
• God is a God of Justice (Psalm 50)
• John 4: 'God is love'
• Omnipotence


  God is the all-powerful Creator and Controller of everything (Job 37)
• Transcendence


  God is beyond our reach and understanding (Job 37)
• Saint Paul: 'Death through Adam, life through Christ'
• Original Sin


  Sin entered the world through Adam and Eve's disobedience, bringing death. Christ's death and resurrection overcomes this and provides salvation.
• Saint Paul: 'All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God'
• Infant Baptism


  Catholic practice to wash away original sin and allow a new life within the church
• In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1)
• Creation ex nihilo


  God created everything out of nothing
• Trinity


  God the Father, Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit were all present at creation
• Jesus: 'Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit'
• Trinity


  Christianity's unique understanding of God as three equal, divine persons
• Jesus: 'My kingdom is not of this world'
• Eschatology


  Christianity is concerned with the end times and the afterlife, not just this world
• Jesus: 'In my Father's house are many rooms'
• Heaven


  A physical place prepared by Jesus for his followers after death
• Saint Paul: 'The eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands'
• Heaven


  A spiritual, eternal state, not a physical place like on earth
• Saint Paul: 'Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God'
• Resurrection


  The physical body will not inherit heaven, suggesting a different form of existence
• Book of Revelation: 'Hell is a fiery lake of burning sulfur'
• Hell


  A physical, undesirable place of eternal punishment described in the Bible
• Kingdom of God


  A completely different place, your physical body may not necessarily be there unless God creates you a brand new one
• Hell


  Described in the Book of Revelation as a fiery Lake of burning sulfur
• The description of hell in the Book of Revelation is designed to scare people and make them fearful, in order to impact their feelings and actions to avoid that destination
• Heaven


  The state of supreme definitive happiness, a union with God
• To be in heaven is to be with Christ
• Salvation


  Achieved through belief and faith in Jesus, his death on the cross and resurrection, not through works
• Jesus: 'I am the resurrection and the life'
• The resurrection of Jesus is the key belief in Christianity, as it gives hope that through faith in him, his followers can also rise from the dead
• Angel: 'He is not here, he is risen'
• The resurrection of Jesus provides evidence that he is the Son of God, as an ordinary human being could not rise from the dead
• Judgment Day


  Christians believe there will be a day when all of humanity will be judged by God