Eduqas GCSE RS Route B Component 1 Key Terms

1. Human reason making moral decision. The knowledge we have of what is right and what is wrong and the Godgiven compulsion within all human being to do what is right and what is evil (10)
3. “God breathed.” The belief that the spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good and true (11)
5. The word used to describe all of the ways in which God makes himself known to human beings. Christians believe that God does this finally and fully in the person of Jesus Christ (10)
6. In the image of God. The belief that human beings are uniquely a reflection of God’s personhood. Unlike the other animals, human beings are rational, free and moral (5, 3)
8. The process of mutation and natural selection which leads to changes in species over time to suit particular environments (9)

2. The absence of good and the impulse to seek our own desires at the expense of the good of others which often results in suffering (4)
3. “Made flesh” – the Christian belief that God became man in the person of Jesus, fully human and fully divine (11)
4. The quality of being like God: seeking the well-being of others selflessly (8)
9. Existing outside of space and time; God exists in a way that makes him nothing like anything else that exists, above and beyond creation (13)
10. The decision-making part of a person’s mind is called the will – a will is free if a person is able to choose right from wrong without being controlled by others (8)

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