Christian Beliefs

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  • Christian Beliefs
    • Jesus' death
      • Crucifiction
        • Suffered a lot at his death but still forgave the criminal next to him and those who were killing him
        • Willing sacrifice for humans
      • Salvation
        • Jesus death is a way to make up for Adam and Eve's original son
        • Jesus' death lets humans have everlasting life
        • Atonement for humans - brings humanity back at one with God
        • "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins" - Paul
      • Incarnation
        • God became human as Jesus
        • "The Word became flesh" - John
        • Virgin Birth is evidence
      • Ressurection
        • "He is risen" - Mark
        • 3 days after his death, Jesus was resurrected - shows power of God over death
    • Trinity
      • God the Father
        • First person in the Trinity
        • Creator of Earth and all life
      • God the Son
        • Second person in the Trinity
        • Son of God / Jesus
        • Fully human and God while on Earth
      • God the Holy Spirit
        • Influences, guides and sustains the Earth and all life
        • Unseen power of God in the world
      • "Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" Corinthians
    • Nature of God (personality)
      • Omnipotent
        • "Nothing is impossible with God" -  Luke 1:37
        • All-powerful
      • Omnibenevolent
        • "God loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall no perish" - John 3:16
        • All-loving
      • Just
      • One
        • "there is but one God, the Father"
      • Omniscient
        • All-knowing
      • Omnipresent
      • Transcendent
    • The Problem of Evil
      • Mackie's 'Inconsistent triangle'
        • Argues that it is logically impossible for God to be both omnipotent and omnibenevolent and for evil to exist
      • Ingersoll's ideas
        • Argues that amount of suffering on Earth shows that all loving God most likely doesn't exist
        • "Injustice upon Earth renders the justice of heaven impossible"
      • Solutions to this problem
        • 2 types of Evil: natural evil (sickness, natural disaster...) is not caused by God, moral evil (violence, war...) is caused by human's free will
        • Original sin causes all suffering - St Augustine's argument

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