Quiz 4 Flashcards
(29 cards)
Branches of Judaism
Orthodox
Conservative
Reform
Principles of rabbinic interpretation
Oral Torah was necessary for interpreting written Torah
Building fence around the Torah
Laws applied literally and considered bindings
Torah
Books and oral
613 commandments
Oral Torah interprets written
Gods teaching s
Main branches of Christianity
Mormonism
JW
Seventh day adventists
Christian scientist
Trinity
One god in 3 persons
Father son and Holy Spirit
Jesus
Jesus is long awaited messiah
Death and resurrection of Jesus
Explain
Why did he do it
Frees from penalty of death, penalty for sin is death
Resurrection gives holy spiritual and power to live right
Gives people the ability to overcome their corruption
Holy Spirit
Explain
Christians become temple of god in the form of the Holy Spirit
Jesus sent Holy Spirit when he was resurrected
Gives people the power to follow god
Serves as guide to life
Parable
Explain
Teaser without giving too much info
Need to be committed to find explanation
Weeding out process
Goal is a community that obeys and represents god well
Islam
Means submission
Muslim
Means one who submits to Allah
Allah
God
Quaran
Final words of god
Muhammad
Profit sent to Arabs
Angle Gabriel gave him commandments
5 pillars of Islam
1 profession of faith 2 prayer 3 charity 4 fasting 5 pilgrimage
Kaaba
Explain
House of Allah
Most sacred place
Closest point of earth to Allah
Sharia
Divine Islamic law derived from Quran and Sunnah
Covering all aspects of life
People get together and argue how to interpret
Allahs rules from Quran
Oral Torah
Tells you how to interpret
God spoke to masses and wasn’t written down
Judaism is shaped by oral
Interpretation of gods teachings
Talmud
Tells you how to live life
Without it wouldn’t know what to do. Guides you
Halakha
Rules from Torah
(Can’t work on Sunday- tells you what work means)
Tells you how the laws apply
Life is organized around rules, laws governjnf every aspect of life. 613 commandments
Rabbis
Jewish teachers and leaders
Interpret and applied bible
Talmud was primary Text
Purity
Bases of pollution
Certain things generate impurity, usually actions and events
Direct law: mixing milk and meat.
Physical contact with dead
Childbirth
Not necessarily bad just a condition/fact of life
Sin
Breaking any of the 613
Weighs you down unless you fix it
Must confess and repent
Sacrifice if temple
Forgiveness
You get forgiveness if you strive to be perfect
You get a clean slate and move foward, makes it easy to make mistake again