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God
supreme being, Ultimate reality, the one behind everything, deity, the divine
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Omniscient
all seeing he see and knows everything - past, present and future
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Omnipresent
he is everywhere at once at the same time
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Omnipotent
all powerful/in control of everything in heaven and earth
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Symbolism
objects or actions with special meanings/meaning repressented through symbols/system of symbols to explain other things
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Trinity
christian belief that there is only one god but he seen in 3 different ways - father, son and holy spirit
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Lord
title given to jesus/the one who directs or guides believer's life/the ruler of world and heaven/equal to god, his father
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Redeemer
one pays ransom price to set others free/bringer of forgiveness/one who gives eternal life/saviour
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Incarnation
made flesh - jesus (god the son) came to earth as a human-god understands all human problems
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Theist
someone who believes in the existence of god
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Agnostic
a person who believes it is not possible to know whether ot not god exists/not sure
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Atheist
someone who does not believe in god
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Awe
sense of fear and reverence/completely overwhelmed by sense of god's presence/struck breathless and speechless/sense of wonder
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Revelation
to expose or reveal/taking away whatever hides knowledge and understnding about something
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Sanctity of Life
life in all it's formus comes from god and is sacred/precious and priceless - no one should take life but god
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Community
group with things in common/company of people/religious group/family/fellowship
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Worship
activity used to praise/give worth to god/community prayer service - can take many forms - songs, clapping, silence etc
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Prayer
to talk to god/personal worship - can take many forms
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Liturgical
set order/pattern for worship usually designed by church authorities - eg mass missal/common prayer book
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Non-Liturgical
order of prayer service made up by individual ministers
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Mass
community worship service done in the Catholic church
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Eucharist
holy communion/blessing and receiving of bread and wine in service
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Transubstatiation
christian belief that bread and wine of communion turn into spirtiual body and blood of jesus after blessing by priest - re-enactment of sacrifice on cross as well as remembrance of Last super
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Sabbath
day of rest for some religious groups/jewish and christian belief that god rested on 7th day so humans so too. saturday for jews/sunday for christians
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Freewill
belief that everyone is responsible for their own action/nothing is completely pre-determined/humans have free choices in life
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Monotheistic
belief on one god
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Soul
non-physical part of humans, part of humans that survives death, image of god in humans, spiritual part of you
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all seeing he see and knows everything - past, present and future

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Omniscient

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he is everywhere at once at the same time

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all powerful/in control of everything in heaven and earth

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objects or actions with special meanings/meaning repressented through symbols/system of symbols to explain other things

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