Christianity_RS_Revision
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- Created on: 02-06-19 13:34
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- Christianity _RS_Revision
- Importance of Jesus (Agape)
- Sacrificial love
- A love that places God and all other humans above yourself
- Eg
- Jumping in front of a train to save someone else's life
- Nature of God (personal)
- God is personal as He can have relationships with adherents
- Eg
- Prayers, Visions, Holy Spirit
- Bible often talks of God in human terms
- God is...
- Eternal
- Personal
- Omnibenevolent
- Omnipotent
- Immanent
- Judge
- Omniscient
- Perfect example
- Evil and Suffering
- Moral Evil
- Suffering caused by the actions of human beings
- Doesn't explain why God allows natural evils, or why innocent people suffer
- Natural Evil
- Suffering created through no direct fault of humans
- Doesn't explain why God lets innocent people suffer
- Eg
- Earthquakes, Floods
- Moral Evil
- Salvation and the Role of Christ
- Salvation
- Being saved from eternity in hell through repentance and Jesus' death on the cross
- Through sacrifice, receive salvation
- Should show repentance for sin
- "I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead" Sinner's Prayer
- Role of Christ
- Son of God
- Jesus was God incarnate (human form)
- Conceived by Holy Spirit, made Mary pregnant
- Messiah
- Anointed one
- Believe was sent as saviour of humanity
- Lord and Saviour
- Take punishment for human sin
- Fully human and fully God
- Meant humans could restore relationship with God
- "I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only son, our Lord" Apostles Creed
- Son of God
- Salvation
- Divergent views on the Creation Story
- Literal Creationists
- Evidence
- "In the beginning, God created heavens and the Earth" Genesis 1:1
- Explanation
- Take the Bible literally - Bible is God's actual words
- The accounts in Genesis 1-3 provide and accurate historical account of the world
- Rejects scientific suggestion
- World not 5700 years old - millions of years old
- God's world is infallible to must be absolute truth
- Weakness
- Believe creation is a myth. Is a story that conveys important truths
- Not meant to be taken literallly
- Evidence
- Myth
- Evidence
- "The universe that the world is millions of years old, not 5700 years" The Scientist
- Explanation
- Used to convey important truths
- Difference in style and order of account in Genesis 1+2
- Scientific research that the world is billions of years old, so can't be taken literally
- Tells us lots of important things about humans in other parts of creation
- Weakness
- Theistic Evolution
- Science and Bible can go hand in hand
- God started, science continued
- Theistic Evolution
- Evidence
- Conclusion
- Strong - Myth, both science and Bible
- Weak - Creationists, only Bible, no science
- Literal Creationists
- Importance of Jesus (Agape)
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