Christian Teachings Flashcards
What is the problem of evil / inconsistent triad
- If God is omnibenevolent he should want to stop evil and therefore not be onmipotent
- If God is omnipotent and can stop evil he is not omnibenevolent
- If God is both omnibenevolent and omnipotent then evil does not exist
- God doesn’t exist
Give ways philosiphers would respond to the problem of evil the inconsistant triad
Augustine
* Evil is a punishment from God for human sin
Irenaues and Hick
* Evil allows humans to develop by showing qualities such as compassion and bravery
* Evil is a test from God
* Evil is the work of the Devil
All three
* Evil is a result of the abuse of human free will
In the story of Job, why do people suffer and innocent people suffer
- People suffer as a test of their faith
- Good people suffer a lot because the devil wants them to turn away from God
What happens in the story of Job
Job loses everything → his home, his family and gets a terrible skin disease
He questions his suffering with his friend and come up with…
* People suffer as a test of their faith
* Good people suffer a lot because the devil wants them to turn away from God
Give facts about Jesus’ birth from Matthew’s gospel
- Born in a house
- Visited by wise men from the East
- They followed a star
- Brought gifts
- They visited Herod who told tem to let him know where Jesus was born
- They were told by an angel to not go back
Give facts about Jesus’ birth from Luke’ gospel
- Mary was told she will give birth by Angel Gabriel
- Born in Bethlehem
- Born in a manger
- Shepherd’s told of his birth by angels
- Shepherd’s did not bring gifts
Define incarnation
God in flesh
Why do Chrstians believe in the incarnation
- Angel Gabriel says Mary will give birth to the ‘‘son of most high’’
- Jesus performed miracles
- In Jesus baptism God says ‘‘This is my son with whom i am well pleased’’
Why is the incarnation important to Christians
- Enabled God to atone for human sin > Jesus was the sacrifice-lamb of God to make up for the Fall of Adam and Eve
- God could understand human suffering
- God could show humans the perfect way to behave through Jesus and his teachings
What happened before the cricifixion - Holy week
- Jesus predicts his death at the last supper
- He is betrayed to the Jewish high priests by Judas
- He is arrasted in the Garden of Gethsemane by the Roman soldiers and the Jewish high preists
- He is given an illegal trial at night by the high priests
- He is handed over to Pontius Pilate
- He is whipped and spat on by the roman soldiers
- People drew lots over his clothes
- A crown of thorns was placed on his head
What happens during the Crucifixion
- Jesus is made to carry his own cross
- Offered wine but he refuses
- Romans drew lots over his clothes
- He was nailed to the cross
- On his cross it said ‘‘This is Jesus. King of the jews.’’
- People who mocked him told him to save himself if he is the son of God
- He was crucified between two thieves
- When he dies he cries to God ‘‘why have you forsaken me’’
- He is offered wine vinegar
- When he dies there is an earthquake
- The temple curtain comes down
- Manu women mourn him
What is the atonement
making humans and God one again
Why is the crucifixion important for Christians
- Jesus was sacrificed for the inhertied sin from The Fall
- Helped God understand human suffering, from the loss of his son
- Showed God’s omnibenevolence → ‘‘for God so loved the world he gave his only son’’
- Showed Jesus was the son of God → Earquake causing tombs of the holy men to open
- Crucifixion enabled eternal life → ‘‘so that all who believe in him may have eternal life’’
Why is the atonement important for Christians? (4)
- Shows God’s love as he sacrificed his only son to bring humans back to him
- Brings God and Humans closer together
- Original sin was cleansed when Jesus died
- He fulfils the Old Testament prophecy
Give facts about the resurrection
Start 1
1. His tomb was found empty by three women
2. The women were told by two angels → ‘‘why do you look for the living amongst the dead’’
3. The women go back to tell the desciples
4. Peter has to go and look for himself
Start 2
1. Mary vists the tomb and mistakes Jesus for a gardener
2. Jesus tells her that he has rissen
Ending
* Jesus appeared to the disciples and they could not believe it
* They believed after he broke the bread and drank the wine
* Doubting Thomas asks to see Jesus’ wounds
* St Paul says Jesus appeared to five hundred women and men after he had appeared to the disciples
What is the ascension
When Jesus ascends into heaven
How many days after Jesus’ resurrection did he ascend
40 days
What does Jesus tell the disciples before his ascension
- '’go into the world and preach the gospel to all creation’’
Why is the ascension imporant for Christians
- It shows even tho Jesus is not physically with us, God’s spirit will be
- It shows Christians must try to spread Jesus’ message → ‘‘go into the world and preach the gospel to all creation’’
- Shows Jesus is waiting in heaven for Christians
- Reinforces the fact he is the son of God
What is the holy trinity
- Father
- Son
- Holy Spirit
Four teachings to support the Trinity
- At Jesus’ baptism a voice is heard → ‘‘This is my Son with whom i am well pleased’’ → son
- Dove → holy spirit
- Jesus said ‘‘I and the father are one’’
- Jesus said ‘‘anyone who has seen me has seen the Father’’
Why is the Trinity important (6)
- It is in the Bible
- Jesus teaches it
- It is the teaching of the church
- It helps Christians understand God
- It helps Christians understand how they can be saved from sin
- It was witnessed by the Apostels
What happens in Genesis 1
- God seperated light from dark
- Seperated sky from water
- Created lands and plants
- Created other planets and stars
- Created fish and birds
- Animals and Man
- Rest, it was ‘‘good’’
What happens in Genesis 2
- Adam was created from dust to live in the garden of Eaden
- Eve was created from his rib
- God tells them to not eat from the tree of knowaldge
