RS Key Terms

When your life is changed by giving yourself to God.

Something which breaks the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it.

Moral evil are actions caused by humans that create suffering eg. war.

Natural evil are things that have caused suffering but have nothing to do with humans eg. floods.

The feeling of the presence of something greater than you.

An attempt to contact God, usually through words.

Giving someone the means with which to commit suicide.

The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.

When someone about to die has an out of body experience.

Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have food reason for thinking they would want you to do so.

Unexplained things which are through to have spiritual causes eg. ghosts.

The idea that life must have benefits for it to be worth living.

Reincarnation is the belief that after death souls are reborn into a new body.

Resurrection is the bliefe that after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised.

The belief that life is holy and belongs to God.

Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death.

A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.

Mother, father and children living as one unit.

Sex before marriage.

Making a new life.

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.

Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.

Marrying again after you've already had a divorce.

A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society.

A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group.

The right to practice your religion and change your religion.

Accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist.