Deity

Question 1

What does omnipotent mean?

Answer 1

All powerful

Question 2

What does omnibenevolent mean?

Answer 2

All loving

Question 3

What does omniscient mean?

Answer 3

All knowing

Question 4

What does omnipresent mean?

Answer 4

All present

Question 5

What does immanent mean?

Answer 5

God can occur at any time

Question 6

What does immutable mean?

Answer 6

God cannot change

Question 7

What does transcendent mean?

Answer 7

God is beyond human understanding

Question 8

What does judge mean?

Answer 8

God (Jesus) will judge everyone on Judgement Day

Question 9

What does eternal mean?

Answer 9

God has no beginning or end

Question 10

What does trinity mean?

Answer 10

God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit

Question 11

What are people that believe in God called?

Answer 11

Theists

Question 12

What are people that believe in one God called?

Answer 12

Monotheists

Question 13

What are people that aren’t sure what to believe called?

Answer 13

Agnostics

Question 14

What are people who don’t believe in God called?

Answer 14

Atheists

Question 15

How does God make himself known?

Answer 15

• Bible (God’s word)
• Religious experience (prayers/dreams)
• Natural world
• Conscience (knowing right or wrong)

Question 16

What is the Teleological or Design Argument?

Answer 16

William Paley’s watch argument. World shows evidence of design and purpose so there must be a designer which is God

Question 17

What is the Argument from Experience?

Answer 17

Some people have experienced God through miracles, answered prayers, meditation or prayer where they have felt his presence or heard him speak

Question 18

What is the Cosmological or First Cause Argument?

Answer 18

St. Thomas Aquinas said that everything must have a cause. Something cannot come from nothing. Aquinas believes God was the first cause of the universe

Question 19

What is the Moral Argument?

Answer 19

People have a basic understanding of right and wrong (conscience) which comes from God

Question 20

Who said that the reason we have a conscience is that God gave it to us so we would know how to do good?

Answer 20

Cardinal John Henry Newman (this supports Moral Argument)

Question 21

What is the Goldilocks Effect?

Answer 21

Conditions are ‘just right’ for humans to live on Earth

Question 22

Reasons why people might not believe in God

Answer 22

• Unanswered prayers
• God is in man’s imagination (people made God up)
• Not everyone knows right and wrong (conscience) in same way
• Suffering in the world
• No proof
• Science
• Universe has always been
• Life could’ve just evolved

Question 23

Definition of a miracle

Answer 23

Act of God that shows his love or power

Question 24

When did Jesus perform miracles?

Answer 24

When someone had faith in him

Question 25

One of Jesus's greatest miracles?

Answer 25

Resurrection

Question 26

Modern day miracle in Lourdes

Answer 26

14 year old girl called Bernadette had visions of Virgin Mary that a church should be built where visions took place

Question 27

Jesus as fully human and divine

Answer 27

God in a human body (flesh and blood)

Question 28

Jesus as teacher and and guide

Answer 28

God-like behaviour and attitude

Question 29

Jesus as saviour

Answer 29

Died to take away sins (atonement)

Question 30

Jesus as eternal

Answer 30

Resurrected and returned to live with his Father for eternity and will return as judge for Parousia, the Appearing

Question 31

Christian beliefs about Holy Spirit

Answer 31

- Gives hope, faith, guidance, understanding and spiritual strength to live up to teachings of Jesus - Jesus told disciples he would send them Holy Spirit - Spread love

Question 32

Definition of Anthropomorphism

Answer 32

Different ways to explain God

Question 33

Definition of Divine

Answer 33

Refers to God (Godly)

Question 34

What is a Eucharist?

Answer 34

Christian Sacrament commemorating Last Supper

Question 35

Definition of Fundamentalist Christians

Answer 35

Christians that believe in every word of the Bible

Question 36

What does Immanuel mean?

Answer 36

'God with us'

Question 37

What does infinite mean?

Answer 37

Without limits

Question 38

What does Messiah mean?

Answer 38

'Anointed one'

Question 39

Definition of Parousia

Answer 39

Second Coming of Christ who will judge humanity at end of the world