christianity

• "but you lord are compassionate and gracious God slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness"
• "for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"
• "not anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our lord"
• "then why do we still have evil? is he neither able nor willing? then why do we call him God" - socrates (the problem of evil)
• "i can say that i am in the Father is in me"
• "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... And God said ' let there be light' and there was light"
• "then the lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man"
• "i look for resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come" - nicene creed
• "do not be afraid mary; you have found favour with God. you will conceive and give birth to a son and you are to call him Jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high"
• "we have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son who came from the father full of grace and truth"
• "my God my God why have you foresaken me"
• "the punishment that brought us peace.. by his wounds we are healed.. for the transgression of my people he was punished"
• "while he was blessing them he left them and was taken up to heaven. then they worshipped him and returned to jerusalem with great joy"
• "all of them were filled with the holy spirit and began to speak in tongues as the spirit enabled them"
• "Jesus said to her 'i am the resurrection and the life' ''
• the apostles creed : God is an all-powerful creator, God will forgive our sins, there is one holy and universal church, there will be a resurrection of the body and an eternal afterlife
• "and if christ has not been raised our preaching is useless and so if your faith"
• trinity : the three persons of God the father, the son and the holy spirit
• omnibenevolence : the state of being all loving and finite good
• omnipotence : the all powerful, almighty and unlimited nature of God
• omniscience : the state of knowing and seeing everything
• incarnation : God becoming human on earth in the form of Jesus
• resurrection : the belief that Jesus rose from the dead on easter sunday conquering death
• atonement : the belief that Jesus death healed the rift between humans and God
• salvation : deliverance from sin and its consequences believed by God to be brought by faith in christ
• judgement : the estimate by God of the ultimate worthiness or unworthiness of the individual
• creation story

  • day 1 : created day and night; day 2: created heavens; day 3: created land, sea and vegetation; day 4- created sun, moon and stars; day 5: created birds of sky and sea creatures; day 6: land creatures and humans; day 7- rested
• "this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man"
• "you must not eat fruit from the trees in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it or you will die"
• the creation interpretations

  • fundamental christians- believe narrative is true and have a literal understanding to bible and creation story
  • other christians - believe story is metaphorical e.g. the days are periods of time, God instigated the big bang
• the story of job

  • God allows satan to test job and his flock die, servants and 10 children
  • in job he states that Gods way is beyond human understanding and his faith in God
• salvation : sin

  • original sin - humans are born with sin, refers to adam and eve (criticism- unfair for God to follow peoples mistakes)
• salvation

  • catholics - partake in sacraments achieve in salvation, confessing sins
  • protestants -must have faith in jesus, must fully repent
• role of the holy spirit

  1. strengthen faith
  2. allows miracles
  3. allows them to speak in tongues