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christian beliefs

  • Salvation - being saved, belief that through gods grace, Jesus’ death and resurection brough about salvation for humanity. saving of the soul and being able to enter eternal life in heaven.

  • Ascention - Going or being taken up; the event forty days after the resurrection when jesus returned to glory in heaven.

  • Atonement - making ammends or payment for a wrong. The belief that reconcilliation between god and humanity that was brought about by the death of jesus as a sacrafice.

  • Baptism - The sacrament through which people become members of the church. It involves the use of water as a symbol of washing away of sin

  • Grace - The unconditional and generous love that God shows to people who do not deserve it

  • Incarnation - Literally “in flesh” the belief that god took human form as jesus

  • Law - Rules or commandments which must be followed, the law of god was revealed in the bible

  • Omnipotent- The belief that god is all powerful

  • Monotheism - Belief in one god

  • Omnibenevolent - the belief that god is all loving

  • Just - the belief that god is fair

  • Inconsistant triad - The problem of evil, difficult to accept the nature of god and the existance of evil and sufferinging the world.

  • St augustine - A theoligist who tried to resolve the probem of evil, this is due to the fact that humans have free will

  • Creation ex nihilo - god creating the world from nothing

  • Fundementalist - Literal, also known as literalists, they believe the story of creation is literally how it happened

  • Liberal - They believe that the bible can be meatphorical and the creation story is not literal

“go and make deciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father, son and the holy spirit.” -Mathew

“I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me” - John

  • John

“He was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of god”

Mark

Ascention

“He is not here he has risen”

Luke

Ascention

“If christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins”

Corinthians

Salvation

“Christ died for our sins”

Corinthians

Salvation

“Wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of god”

Corinthians

Heaven

“Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god”

Corinthians

Heaven

“The eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands”

Corinthians

Heaven

“The righteous will have eternal life”

Mathew

heaven

“Whoever believes in him (jesus) will not perish but have eternal life”

John

Heaven

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die”

John

Heaven

“The firey lake of burning sulfur”

Revelations

Hell

“Let there be light”

Genesis

Creation

“In the beggining god created the heavens and the earth”

Gensis

Creation

“the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. we have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son, who came from the father, full of grace and truth.”

John

Creation

“In the begginging was the word and the word was with god, and the word was god. He was with god in the beggining.”

John

Creation

“I and the father are one”

John

The trinity

“We believe in one god”

The nicene creed

The trinity

“The heavens proclaim his rightousness, for he is a god of justice”

psalms

The nature of god

“The lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love”

psalms

The nature of god

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christian beliefs

  • Salvation - being saved, belief that through gods grace, Jesus’ death and resurection brough about salvation for humanity. saving of the soul and being able to enter eternal life in heaven.

  • Ascention - Going or being taken up; the event forty days after the resurrection when jesus returned to glory in heaven.

  • Atonement - making ammends or payment for a wrong. The belief that reconcilliation between god and humanity that was brought about by the death of jesus as a sacrafice.

  • Baptism - The sacrament through which people become members of the church. It involves the use of water as a symbol of washing away of sin

  • Grace - The unconditional and generous love that God shows to people who do not deserve it

  • Incarnation - Literally “in flesh” the belief that god took human form as jesus

  • Law - Rules or commandments which must be followed, the law of god was revealed in the bible

  • Omnipotent- The belief that god is all powerful

  • Monotheism - Belief in one god

  • Omnibenevolent - the belief that god is all loving

  • Just - the belief that god is fair

  • Inconsistant triad - The problem of evil, difficult to accept the nature of god and the existance of evil and sufferinging the world.

  • St augustine - A theoligist who tried to resolve the probem of evil, this is due to the fact that humans have free will

  • Creation ex nihilo - god creating the world from nothing

  • Fundementalist - Literal, also known as literalists, they believe the story of creation is literally how it happened

  • Liberal - They believe that the bible can be meatphorical and the creation story is not literal

“go and make deciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father, son and the holy spirit.” -Mathew

“I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me” - John

  • John

“He was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of god”

Mark

Ascention

“He is not here he has risen”

Luke

Ascention

“If christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins”

Corinthians

Salvation

“Christ died for our sins”

Corinthians

Salvation

“Wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of god”

Corinthians

Heaven

“Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god”

Corinthians

Heaven

“The eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands”

Corinthians

Heaven

“The righteous will have eternal life”

Mathew

heaven

“Whoever believes in him (jesus) will not perish but have eternal life”

John

Heaven

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die”

John

Heaven

“The firey lake of burning sulfur”

Revelations

Hell

“Let there be light”

Genesis

Creation

“In the beggining god created the heavens and the earth”

Gensis

Creation

“the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. we have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son, who came from the father, full of grace and truth.”

John

Creation

“In the begginging was the word and the word was with god, and the word was god. He was with god in the beggining.”

John

Creation

“I and the father are one”

John

The trinity

“We believe in one god”

The nicene creed

The trinity

“The heavens proclaim his rightousness, for he is a god of justice”

psalms

The nature of god

“The lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love”

psalms

The nature of god