Christianity: core beliefs
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What is the Trinity?
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The three-fold nature of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — described by Christians as a Christian expression of monotheism.
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What is the incarnation?
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The Christian claim that Jesus is God incarnate — God become human.
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What does Christian teaching mean by original sin?
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A separation from God that human beings are born into, expressed through the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall. Christians hold that God provided a means of salvation through Jesus Christ.
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Name the three destinations the guide lists for Christianity, with a caution.
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Heaven (eternal union with God), purgatory (a staging post — Roman Catholic teaching, rejected by most Protestant churches), and hell (separation from God).
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What is grace?
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God's love for humanity and the means to salvation — salvation is held to be God's act, not a human achievement.
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What is redemption, in Christian terms?
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Jesus Christ as redeemer through his death on the cross.
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What is atonement?
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Reconciliation between God and humanity through Christ.
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How do churches differ over what a sacrament is?
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Catholic and Orthodox churches describe a sacrament as the actual presence of God working through the sign and count seven. Most Protestant churches describe it as an outward sign of a blessing given by God and keep two.
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Name the guide's four routes to salvation in Christianity.
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Believing in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; believing in Jesus Christ as Saviour; living by the teachings of Jesus; participating in the sacraments, as appropriate to the denomination.
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How do Jewish and Christian accounts of the human condition differ?
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Judaism holds free will is a standing choice between two inclinations, with no inherited separation from God. Christianity holds the separation is real and inherited, and closed from God's side through Christ.
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Why does Christian hope speak of resurrection rather than only of a surviving soul?
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Because the hope is tied to Christ's own rising from the dead; the creeds say "the resurrection of the body", and the wording is deliberate.
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