8PaT revision- End of Year 8 Test

• Chalcedonian Creed

  • Shows us that Jesus is God incarnate
• Jesus' nativity (birth) story


  • Shows us Jesus is God incarnate
• Jesus was a wise teacher, we know this because he used parables to explain things that were beyond his time
• Jesus was a miracle maker


  • He carried out many miracles such as healing the paralytic and calming a storm
  • Importance for being able to trust that Jesus cares about us and has the power to help us
• Jesus was a liberator (freer) of the oppressed


  • There are stories from the New Testament where Jesus spent time with people who were rejected by society
  • It has importance because it shows us how we should treat others today
• Jesus was the Saviour


  Importance for Christians because it means that our sins can be forgiven
• Empirical evidence


  A way of knowing what is true using our sense experience
• Empirical evidence


  • The Big Bang Theory
  • Evolution
• Holy books


  A way of knowing what is true for believers, including as literal facts or as symbolic stories
• Religious experience


  A way of knowing what is true
• Paley's design argument


  Tries to show that God exists from the observation that there is order in the natural world
• Fine tuning argument


  Supports the existence of God, using examples of how our planet is 'just right' for human life to exist
• Cosmological arguments


  Try to show that God exists from the idea that everything, including the universe must have a cause
• Jesus was god incarnate, this means...?


  God in human form
• Compatibilist view: They recognise many different genres in the Bible and believe that at least some parts of the Bible should be read metaphorically (symbolically).
• Complimentarian view: Holy Books complement (add to) knowledge gained from empirical evidence. Their purpose is not to explain or answer scientific and historical questions, but to bring us into relationship with God.
• Conflict view: Empirical evidence’ for scientific theories conflicts with a literal reading of the Bible. They are ‘incompatible’, so ‘Only one explanation is correct.’