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Religon Ch2
Vocabulary words
Term | Definition |
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adoration | worship and honor given to God as Creator and Sustainer or all that is |
angels | created beings who are pure spirits woth intelligence and free will, but without bodies, who act as God's messengers |
atheism | the belief that there is no God |
Baptism | the sacrement of new life in God and of incorporation into the church Preformed with water and the words, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"; the first Sacrement of Initiation |
creationism | the theory that the Genesis story in the Bible is literally true, that God created the universe and everything in it in six days and out of nothing |
evolution | a process of continuous change from to a more complex form. as a theory of the development of life forms evolution includes the idea, for example, that apes and humans hava common acestor |
idolatry | worship of a false God |
liturgy | official public prayer in church |
matrimony | sacrement of comming together as a couple in marriage |
monotheism | belief in one God only |
original sin | first decision by humans to disobey God |
polytheism | belief in many Gods |
sacrament | an effective sign, established by Jesus and given to his church, by which God shares his life through the work of the Holy Spirit |
salvation | God's action accomplished through Jesus of freeing people from sin and restoring them to friendship with God |
stewardship | the responsibility God gave to humans to take care of the earth and everythin in it |
ten commandments | the fundemental moral laws given by God to his people and recorded in the Old Testament |