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A Study of Religion: Christianity (Units 1 and 3)
Quick questions on The nature of God, the Trinity and creation in Christianity - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies
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What is creation?Show answer
Christians believe God created the universe freely and out of nothing ("creatio ex nihilo"), so creation depends entirely on God and is distinct from him. Genesis 1 to 2 is the key text. Literalists read it as a factual account; conservatives and liberals read the "days" symbolically and see no necessary conflict with science, regarding Genesis as teaching that God is the purposeful source of all things rather than offering a scientific timetable.
What is model paragraph?Show answer
The Christian concept of God is internally rich but raises genuine questions of coherence. Omniscience, if it includes foreknowledge of all human choices, appears to threaten human free will, since what God already knows must come about, which would undermine the moral responsibility on which salvation depends. Defenders reply with the Boethian move that God is timeless and so does not "fore"-know but sees all time at once, knowing free choices without causing them.
What is q1?Show answer
List four attributes Christians ascribe to God. [4 marks]
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What does "creatio ex nihilo" mean? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Evaluate the view that the doctrine of the Trinity is impossible to understand. [20 marks]
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