CHRISTIANITY - paul

Question 1

Explain clarity on ethical teachings (3) and (2)

Answer 1

AGAPE LOVE -
- agape love - unconditional love that is without boundaries
- recognises humans are fallible and have the capability to boast envy etc. but love can overcome all human fallibilities
- it is challenging and uncomfortable but it is what is needed to bring change and peace

TEMPERANCE -
- controlling one’s urges
- calls on adherents to balance their urges so that they can live righteously and to overcome temptation, which he recognises is challenging

Question 2

Explain how he was a model of the transformative encounters with Christ (4)

Answer 2

• prior to his transformation he was a persecutor of Christians, an ardent Pharisee and overly aggressive enforcer of the law
• repeatedly viewed and referenced himself as a sinner but also continuously sought mercy and forgiveness
• transformed into a model of faith, spreading the message of faith and peace
• he reminds adherents of the redemptive capacity of God and transformational nature of Christ

Question 3

Explain commitment to the mission (4)

Answer 3

• in evangelising (converting and teaching the Gospel) he established longstanding beliefs, ethical teachings and rituals across Europe and Asia
• established many new Christian communities such as in Antioch, Galatia, Rome and Philippi
• contributed to 25% of the NT clarifying Christianity where hostility had developed
• wrote letters to help establish Christianity in communities

Question 4

Give 3 quotes for commitment to the mission

Answer 4

• ‘make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace’ - Ephesians 4
• ‘therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’ - Matthew 28:19
• ‘Christ is like a single body which has many parts; it is still one body even though it is made up of different parts’ - 1 Corinthians 12

Question 5

Give 4 quotes for clarity on ethical teachings

Answer 5

• ‘love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast’ - 1 Corinthians 13
• ‘temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures…and keeps the desires within the limits of what is honourable’ - CCC
• ‘its the struggle between the inner voice of ego and conscience’ - 1 Corinthians 13
• ‘or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?’ - 1 Corinthians 6

Question 6

Give 2 quotes for the transformative nature of encounters with Christ

Answer 6

• ‘For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect’ - 1 Corinthians 15:9
• ‘I have fought the good fight…I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness’ - 2 Timothy 4