key terms (very simplified)

Question 1

ascension

Answer 1

going or being taken up; the event 40 days after the resurrection when jesus returns to heaven.

Question 2

atonement

Answer 2

making amends for wrong; the belief that reconciliation between god and humanity was bought about by the death of jesus as a sacrifice.

Question 3

baptism

Answer 3

the sacrament through which people become members of the church, it involves the use of water as a symbol of the washing away of sin.

Question 4

believers’ baptism

Answer 4

initiation into the church, by immersion in water, of people old enough to understand the rite and have made the decision to live a christian life.