Christian Beliefs - influences

omnipotence - influences

• pray for miracles - belief that God can intervene

• Worship and pray to God - confidence in him as he can do anything

• behave morally - has the power to punish or reward

omnibenevolence - influences

• Show love to others - God and Jesus show love, follow

• Confident to ask for forgiveness - he is loving so he will forgive

Just - influences

• work towards social justice e.g. fairtrade- wants to demonstrate Gods qualities

• Treat all fair and equally - follow in God

• Faith in rewards in afterlife - inface of injustices

trinity - beliefs + influences

• 3 personas yet 1 God

• all 3 personas are equal

• remember God created all, so it should be looked

• believe god is always with them through holy spirit, comforting and strengthens belief

• believe that Jesus was special, Son of God, following his teachings more important to please God

creation - beliefs

• creation ex nihilo - God created the world in 6 days “so on the seventh day he rested“

Incarnation - influences

• act of selflessness by God - give their lives to the service of others, like volunteering

• extent of gods love by send his only son, knowing he would die - influences Christians to show acts of love to others

• to show their love (agape) in dealings with others, charity - following in Gods example

incarnation - teachings

• birth stories to be true - Jesus was conceived by power of holy spirit, allowing for a virgin

• others may see the story as a myth - used to show how Jesus is fully divine and human

• if Jesus was fully divine how could his knowledge be limited at time - as God became man he gave up his divine knowledge as an act of self- giving.

salvation - influence

• comforting to know love of God surrounds Christians regardless of actions, they can ask for forgiveness