Year Ten Revision | Beliefs and TeachingsTopic Key Words Linked Scripture Example Questions

Trinity

Monotheism, Creed, CCC,

Apostolic Tradition,

denomination, , doxology, Sacrament

Trinity – Creed• We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth (NC)• One Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God…

Consubstantial with the Father… He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead...(NC)

• the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who has spoken through the prophets. (NC)

Trinity – Catholic Teaching• “We do not confess three Gods,  but one God in three

persons (CCC 253)”• “The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central

mystery of Christian faith and life.” (CCC 234)

B/C) Explain two Catholics beliefs about the Trinity shown in the Creed.

B/C) Explain two ways the Trinity helps a Christian understand God.

B/C) Explain two ways belief in the Trinity is reflected in Catholic worship.

D) ‘You either believe in one God or three Gods, you can’t have three in one’

Biblical Understanding of the Trinity

Consubstantial, Arianism,

Ecumenical Councils, heresy,

Icon, doctrine, excommunicatio

n, Nicea, Constantinople

‘Let us make man in our own image’ “This is my Son, with whom I am well pleased” “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one”

Consubstantiality "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only

Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.” John 1:18)

One Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God… Consubstantial with the Father… (NC)

B/C) Explain two Catholic beliefs about the Trinity shown in the Bible.

B/C) Explain two reasons belief in the Trinity is important to Catholics.

B/C) Explain two ways the Council of Nicea affected Catholic beliefs

D) ‘The decisions of the Church in the 4th Century are no longer relevant’

Creation

Original sin, Creationist,

Fundamental protestants, ex

nihilo, omnipotence, benevolent

Creation - scripture And the earth was without form, and void (1:2) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

(1:3) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (2:17)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

Creation – Catholic teaching “Scripture presents the work of the Creator

symbolically (CCC 337 “"The world was made for the glory of God. (CCC 134) “The things of the world and the things of faith derive

from the same God” (CCC 159) “Scientific research… is a significant expression of

man's dominion over creation. (CCC 2293)

B/C) Explain two reasons why creation stories are important for Catholics

B/C) Explain two characteristics of God revealed in Genesis

D) ‘The Genesis account of creation has no relevance today’

D) ‘All Christians believe the same about creation’

Nature of Humanity

Imago Dei, stewardship,

human dignity, Gaudium et Spes, grace, dominion.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…over all the earth (1:26)

“Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst”. John 6:35

“By his reason the human person is capable of understanding the order of things established by the creator” CCC 1704

“When God comes, he always calls us out of our house. We are visited so that we can visit others; we are encountered so as to encounter others; we receive love in order to give love.” Pope Francis

B/C) Explain two ways Catholics should treat the world around them.

B/C) Explain two ways Catholics are made in God’s image.

D) ‘If everyone was a Christian there would be no pollution or poverty’

D) ‘Humans are God’s best creation’

D) ‘God gave us dominion, so we can do what we want to creation’

IncarnationIncarnation, Virgin Birth,

divinity,

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:14)

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;(Phil 2:6)

At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. John 8:59

Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him. (5:23)

B/C) Explain two reasons the Incarnation is important to Catholics

B/C) Explain two examples of Jesus’ divinity in the Bible

B/C) Explain two examples of Jesus’ humanity in the Bible

B/C) Explain two difficulties Jews faced in accepting Jesus as the Incarnation

D) ‘Jesus was God in human form’

Paschal Mystery

Paschal, Maundy Thursday,

prophesy, New Covenant, Eucharist,

blasphemy, anoint, Salvation,

redemption, reconciliation, justification, Ascension

Dying he destroyed our death, rising he restored our life CCC10 67

‘Justified by his grace’ CCC1992 ‘What do you seek the living among the dead’ (Luke

24:5-7) ‘Jesus' violent death ….is part of the mystery of

God's plan’ (CCC 599) ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they

do’ (Luke 23:24)

B/C) Explain two reasons the Paschal Mystery is important for Catholics

B/C) Explain two reasons the (Betrayal/ Passion/ Crucifixion/ Ascension) is important for Catholics

B/C) Explain two ways the Paschal Mystery enables to Catholics to achieve salvation

D) ‘The Resurrection was the most important event in the life of Jesus’

Eschatology Parables, unrepented sin, Final judgement,

Particular judgement, purgatory,

evangelization, repentance,Salvation.

"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” (John 11: 25-26)

"We must all stand before Christ to be judged…They will be paid for whatever they did—good or bad—when they lived in this earthly body.” (John 11: 25-26)

“We know that our body: the tent we live in here on earth, will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be the kind of home people build here. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever (2 Corinthians 5:1)

"What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and

B/C) Explain two reasons why belief in life after death is important for Catholics

B/C) Explain two Catholic beliefs about (heaven/ hell/ purgatory)

D) ‘Only those who have been saved from is will get to heaven’

D) ‘A loving God would never send people to hell’

D) ‘When you’re dead, you’re dead, and that’s the end of

what no human mind has conceived" - the things God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

“Amen, I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last penny.”(Matthew 5:26)

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D) ‘All Christians believe the same about life after death’