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Religion
Term | Definition |
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Bible | the written record of God's Revelation and his relationship with his people |
Tradition | The Revelation of the Good News of Jesus Christ as lived out in Church,past and present |
Divine Inspiration | The special guidance that the Holy Spirit gave to the human writers of the Bible |
Covenant | an agreement between God and his people |
Book of Genesis | The first book in the Bible |
Human Dignity | the value and worth that comes from being made in God's image and likeness |
Free Will | the freedom and ablity to choose |
Conscience | the ablity to know the difference between good and evil, right and wrong |
Soul | the invisible spiritual reality that makes each of us human and that will never die |
Steward | a person who is given the authority over what he or she cares for and the responsiblity for seeing that it lives and grows |
Sin | a thought ,word,deed,or omission aganist God'slaw |
Original Sin | the first sin that weakened human nature and brought ignorance,suffering,and death into the world;we all suffer from its effects |
Gospel | the Good Newws about God at work in Jesus Christ |
Faith | a gift from God that enables us to believe in him and accept all that he has revealed |
Cannan | an area in western Palestine that inclued most of present day Israel |
Patriarch | a father,or founder,of a clan, a group of related families |
Providence | God's plan for and protection of all creation |
Pharaoh | the king of Egypt |
Exodus | the biblical word describing the Israelites'departure from slavery to freedom |
Passover | the event in which God passed over the whole of Egypt,taking the lives of every firstborn Egyptian and sparing the Israelites |