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A powerpoint to assist with teaching the perennially challenging topic of the Trinity. After attempting to do this in various ways I stood back from the challenge and came to the conclusion that the revelation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is best understood by taking an overview perspective of the history of salvation. In this way the Father/Creator, the Son/Saviour and the Holy Spirit become much more clear in terms of their operation in human history. I gave Y11 students A3 paper - one per student and asked them to add details as they were able. The paper had a timeline design with key moments in salvation history already marked out. The central part of the timeline was, of course, the Incarnation sending out ripples of divine impact into the past as well as the future. The students enjoyed the lesson, asked lots of questions and uttered a few "Oh yeahs!" "Now it makes sense" type noises which made me feel we were achieving something. I enjoyed it as well as there is something to be said for looking at the whole story rather than always fiddling with the pieces of the jigsaw. Unless you would rather read the whole Bible you might like to have a look at this ...
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GCSE Religious Studies: Beliefs & Values
The History of Salvation: How Did the Church
Come to Believe in the Trinity?
The Beginning of time …
• Genesis:• God’s Spirit ‘hovered
over the waters of chaos’
• God creates the universe but …
• … saves the best to last• Gen1:27 Man is created
in God’s image!!!
Human Society• Adam = ‘Adamah’
Hebrew ‘of the Earth’• Adam is lonely “It is
not good for man to live alone”
• Adam’s rib – the closest thing to his heart
• Eve is created • Perfect bliss in
paradise!• Does it last?
The Fall (Sin)
• Gen 3:12 “The snake tricked me …”
• Hiding “Where are you?”
• Exile – “So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden …” Gen 3:23
• Murder – Cain kills …• Homelessness
God purges the Earth (the end of ‘pre-history’
• Noah – a ‘righteous man’
• God makes a covenant – promise and commitment
God Calls … (2000 BC)
• Abraham
• Covenant
• A land for a new nation
Moses (1500 BC)
• God’s great act of salvation – the Jews continue to tell this story at Passover
David (1000 BC)
• The nation has a king• The nation has a
temple
The Prophets (from David to the time of Jesus)
• People chosen by God to be his mouthpiece and spread his message
• Failure to listen
• Failure in war understood as God’s punishment
The Incarnation• God becomes one of us• God becomes the Word made
flesh and walks among us (John 1:14)
• Jesus meets sin and illness with forgiveness and healing
• Jesus shows us how to be like him so we can be adopted as children of the Father
Death
• Jesus begins the new and everlasting Covenant
• Jesus shows how even suffering and death cannot defeat God’s message and sets us free
Resurrection
• The proof of who Jesus was and what he proclaimed
Pentecost
• The Church begins• God’s Spirit drives the
Church to fulfilment• The disciples become apostles
• What’s different?
The time of the Church
• The time of the sacraments• The sacraments give us the grace to turn
away from sin and be like Christ as we become adopted children of the Father (Our Father …)
• The Church has a mission – no one should miss out on what Christ came to offer 2000 years ago. It doesn’t matter where or when
The Fullness of Time
• At the end of time there will be a Final Judgment (Matthew 25)
• Our destiny• God desires us to be
with Him• ‘The gates of hell are
locked from the inside’
Comments / Questions?
• Take 5 mins
• Where is the evidence of the Spirit today?
• What is your experience of people who are driven to achieve wonderful things?
• What should the Church’s mission be today?
Possible questions:
1. Outline what Christians believe about God the Father.(6)
2. Outline what Christians believe about the incarnation of Jesus. (6)
3. Explain the symbolism used to represent the Holy Spirit. (8)
‘One’
• John 17:21 – ‘May they be one, so that the world will believe …’
• One in faith, worship and succession to the Apostles
• Scandal
• Three major Christian groups
Holy
• Set apart for a special task
• Grace – the source of holiness
• Close relationship to Christ
• Charity
Catholic
• ‘catholic’ means universal
• ‘kata holou’ Greek for ‘embracing the whole
• ‘Catholic’ means united with the worldwide Church faithful to the teaching of the Pope and Bishops
Apostolic
• The domino effect
• ‘Laying on of hands’
• Catholic generations
• The promise to Peter Matthew 16:18 “And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock and on this rock I will build my Church …”
Practice
1. What is meant by the word ‘catholic’? (2)
2. Explain two of the main characteristics of the Church? (8)