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