• Creator and sustainer • God the Father: What happened?
• He is spirit creator of all life, acts as a good father, all powerful, Followers of Jesus went to his tomb bu
• Can have a relationship with him through all loving and all knowing Jesus appeared to several people and t
prayer had risen
• God is holy • God the Son: ‘our preaching is useless and so is your
• ‘we believe in one god’ show his relationship with god, became incarnate Significance of it:
through Jesus • Shows the power of good over evil a
omnipotent omnibenevolent Just • Sins will be forgiven if they follow Go
All powerful Uses his power
• God the Holy Spirit: • They will be resurrected if they acce
• • • A just judge of
• Has to do good humankind the unseen power of God who influences, guides and shouldn't fear death
unlimited
authority • Shows his love • Will never
by creating and support ill- sustains life on earth Ascension: after meeting with his discip
caring for treatment, the final time to return the Father in He
humans oppression or
prejudice Give 2 Christian beliefs about the Trinity (2 marks) ‘while he was blessing them, he left the
• Showed love by - The three parts of God into heaven’
sending Jesus to
earth - The father, the son and the holy spirit Significance of it:
- The father is the powerful creator of life • Shows Jesus is with God in Heaven
• Paves the way for God to send the H
Importance of belief in the trinity: peace and comfort
The nature of god: • It is the central belief of Christianity
- the trinity • It ‘fundamentally distinguishes’ Christianity from other
Beliefs about creation: links to theme b
- Monotheism religions
• JOHN:
- Omnipotent, omnibenevolent, just, omnipresence • God is present in the world through the HS- gives
In his gospel, everything was created throu
comfort to Christians
WORD: refers to the son of god
• God is a mystery to humans- cant be truly understood
Crucifixion: Believe it was involved in the creation
logically therefore belief requires faith in God
• Suffered pain and hoor as he was fully god as well as fully ‘the Word was with God, and the Word wa
God Incarnation:
• ‘father into your hands I commit my spirit’ ‘she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit’ • GENESIS:
why is it important? ‘The Word became flesh’ Believe it contains religious truth even tho
• Gives hope to Christians that their sins will be forgiven • an angel came to Mary and informed her that it was not accurate
• Believe that God understands human suffering an ordinary conception nor an ordinary child. Made the world in 6 days
• Accept that suffering is a part of life • The virgin conception is evidence that Jesus was the Created everything out of choice
Son of god Made everything ‘good’
‘God created the heavens and the earth’