Incarnation Flashcards
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What is incarnation
Made flesh
The Christian belief that got became man in Jesus
“The word became flesh”
The incarnation is an important Christian
Jesus as god
Jesus is omnipotent all pwer and omniscience all knowing
Jesus forgave sins only god can forgive sins
Jesus lived without sin only got is perfect good
Jesus as a man
Jesus died and suffered on the cross
Jesus showed human emotions e.g sadness and fear
The Kenosis hymn word for
Kenosis is a Greek word for meaning emptying
The Kenosis hymn
This hymn shows that Jesus was willing to die on the cross and give his life so that we could have a closer relationship with god
What did Jesus not come true The Kenosis hymn
Like a kind but he came to service abs help people become better
Natural evil
This is suffering caused by events which have nothing to do with humans and are to do with the world is
Moral evil
This is suffering caused by humans actions e.g bullying stealing
Moral exits
Catholic teaches say that moral evil exist because hot says human free will and because humans have inherited Original sin
Original sin brought evil into the world
The fall story Adam and Eve
The fall story
the moment when Adam and Eve fell from the perfect state that god created them in genesis
What dose it teach us
Adam and Eve represent all humans they represent all people choosing to go against god
Do catholics believe that the Adam and Eve account is true
Many Christian’s like creations let’s take this story literally abs believe that Adam and Eve were real people
What do catholics believe that Adam and even bring to this world
Their sinfullness introduced all sorts of bad things into the world including pain and suffering it also affected all the humans begins who are descended
Catholics believe of the fall
Believe that this story has meaning to it and didn’t really happen this way they think it describes the moment in phrehistic human history when human first turned away from god
Jewish view on evil
Unlike Christian idea of original sin Jews do not believe that people are brown evil rather they are brown free but with two drives to do good or to do evil
What dose the Torah teach Jews on evil
That got had given humans beings choices and that it is important to struggle against the dire to do evil actions
What dose Jews focus on instead
Jews should focus on following the mitzvot to live a life that pleases god
The goodness in creation
Christianity teaches that got is omnibenevolent
This idea that god is good and this can be seen in the creation story in genesis
“God saw all that he made and it was good”
All good creates is good reflecting
On his own goodness and his love for human beings
Jewish views in god
There are many similarities between the Jewish and catholic Christian views about gods goodness and the goodness of the world
First jews like catholic believe that god is
The only god is all powerful h Jews unlike catholic do not believe in the devil