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Flashcards by Thomas Woodcock, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Thomas Woodcock
almost 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the 3 different meanings of life for Christians? | 1. To glorify God and to have a personal relationship with him 2. To prepare for Judgement 3. To bring the kingdom of God to earth |
| What are some ways to glorify God? | Encourage others to become christian, try to make there own lives more god like, worship and prayer |
| How can Christians have a relationship with God? | communicating through prayer studying the bible model their lives after jesus |
| What is the 'Doctrine of atonement'? | The idea that Jesus' death can make up for human sin, leading to reconciliation between God and the world |
| What did Jesus teach in the parable of the sheep and the goats? | we will be judged according to how we treated the less fortunate |
| What is humanities greatest purpose? | to be with God |
| What will happen on judgement day? | All will die and then everyone will come back to life and will be judged, those who lived a good life will be welcomed to God's eternal presence and those who didn't will be forever excluded from God |
| What is a problem with glorifying God and preparing for judgement? | they focus on the individual |
| What are the two interpretations of bringing God's kingdom to earth? | 1. Jesus will return in glory and sin and death will be eliminated 2. Christians have a responsibility to work towards creating perfection on earth |
| What do some christians believe you must do to bring about the kingdom of god? | repent, turn away from all that is not godly |
| For Christians what is death? | a consequence of the sin in the world |
| What did the death of Jesus do? | Cancelled out the consequences of sin for human beings and the possibility of life is available to everyone |
| What is resurection of the body? | Augustine's idea that the flesh is needed so that both the physical and spiritual effects of sin can be removed |
| What is spiritual resurrection? | St Paul's idea that our spiritual soul was sown into our physical bodies, and will be raised in a spiritual body |
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