Christianity Midterm pt 3 Flashcards

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Sacrament

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  • Rituals of the church that are taken to be visible signs of invisible grace
  • Number varies according to denomination–Baptism and Eucharist included by Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants
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Septuagint

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  • Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures (Torah)

- Greek for “seventy”

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Sola Scriptura

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-Protestant christian doctrine that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice

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Supersessionism

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  • Traditional Christian belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism
  • Therefore, Jews who deny Jesus as the Jewish Messiah fall short of their calling as God’s chosen people
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The Fall

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  • The disobedience of Adam and Eve and their consequent loss of God’s grace and the peace and happiness of the Garden of Eden
  • When they ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil
  • God punished them by driving them out of the garden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness, pain, and eventual death
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Transubstantiation

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  • Teaching that during the Mass, at Communion, the elements of the Eucharist, bread and wine, are transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ
  • They are no longer bread and wine but only attain their appearance of bread and wine
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Trinity

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Christian doctrine that claims that while there is only one God, he has revealed himself as triune; one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

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Virtue

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Morally good or valued act/trait

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Vice

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A sinful or immoral act/trait

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Works of Mercy

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  • Actions and practices, which, Christianity in general, expects all believers to perform
  • Commonly attributed to the Roman Catholic Church as an act of both penance and charity
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