Christianity Year 9

Question 1

What does monotheistic mean?

Answer 1

Religion that believes there is only 1 God

Question 2

What does polytheistic mean?

Answer 2

Religion that believes there are multiple Gods

Question 3

What does atheist mean?

Answer 3

Person who believes there is no God

Question 4

What does denomination mean?

Answer 4

Distinct group within the Christian faith, with its own organisation and traditions

Question 5

Who is God?

Answer 5

The Supreme Being; highest being of all

Question 6

What does holy mean?

Answer 6

To be separate and set apart for a special purpose by God

Question 7

What does omnipotent mean?

Answer 7

To be almighty and have unlimited power; a quality of God

Question 8

What does benevolent mean?

Answer 8

All-loving and all-good; a quality of God

Question 9

What is the Trinity?

Answer 9

Belief that there are 3 persons in one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are separate but are also one being

Question 10

Who is the Son of God?

Answer 10

The title of Jesus, the 2nd person in the Trinity, that denotes the special relationship between Jesus and God the Father

Question 11

Who is the Holy Spirit?

Answer 11

The 3rd person in the Trinity whom Christians believe is the inspiring presence of God in the world

Question 12

What does agnostic mean?

Answer 12

Someone who does not believe there is enough evidence for belief in God

Question 13

What does incorporeality mean?

Answer 13

To exist without a physical body

Question 14

What does eternal mean?

Answer 14

To be without beginning or end

Question 15

What does omnipresent mean?

Answer 15

To be ever present; a quality of God

Question 16

What does omniscient mean?

Answer 16

To know everything; a quality of God

Question 17

What does immanent mean?

Answer 17

The idea that God is present and involved with life on Earth and in the universe

Question 18

What does transcendent mean?

Answer 18

The idea that God is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe

Question 19

What does personal nature mean?

Answer 19

Idea that God is an individual or person with whom people are able to have a relationship or feel close with

Question 20

What does impersonal nature mean?

Answer 20

The idea that God has no human characteristics, is unknowable and mysterious, like an idea or a force

Question 21

Who are Fundamentalist Christians?

Answer 21

Christians who believe that the Bible’s statements are literally true and are basic beliefs essential to the Christian faith

Question 22

Who are liberals?

Answer 22

Christians who believe that the Bible’s authors were guided by God but not everything they wrote is a literal account of what actually happened

Question 23

What does evolution mean?

Answer 23

The process by which living organisms are thought to have developed from earlier forms of life

Question 24

What does adaptations mean?

Answer 24

Process of change when a species becomes better suited to its environment

Question 25

What does Catholicism mean?

Answer 25

Rome-based Christianity branch led by the Pope

Question 26

What does Orthodox mean?

Answer 26

Branch of mostly Christians who practice in Eastern Europe

Question 27

What is justice?

Answer 27

To carry out what is fair and right

Question 28

What is blasphemy?

Answer 28

Religious offence that includes claiming to be God

Question 29

What is the Design Argument and what are it's other names?

Answer 29

Teleological argument, intelligent design argument, states that God designed universe because everything is made so intricately and with such detail that it can't have happened by chance

Question 30

What is a theist?

Answer 30

One who believes in God

Question 31

What is an atheist?

Answer 31

Someone who doesn't believe in God

Question 32

What is the First Cause Argument and what are it's other names?

Answer 32

Cosmological argument, states that there has to be an uncaused cause that made everything else happen, otherwise there would be nothing

Question 33

What is the argument from miracles?

Answer 33

Miracles that occur and can't be explained by science must be caused by supernatural like God

Question 34

What is enlightenment?

Answer 34

Gaining of true knowledge about God or self through self-discipline or meditation