Christianity — Believing
What's covered
Key facts
Christians describe God as all-powerful (omnipotent) and all-loving.
The angel Gabriel told Mary she would have Jesus (the Annunciation).
Christians teach Jesus died to save people from sin.
Jesus was crucified on a hill outside Jerusalem called Calvary or Golgotha ("place of the skull").
Most Christians believe in life after death.
The first sin in the Bible was committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
66 books are arranged in two testaments: Old (39 books, before Jesus) and New (27 books, about Jesus and the early Church).
Jesus' everyday language was Aramaic, the common tongue of 1st-century Galilee and Judea.
The Holy Spirit is God's presence and power active in the world and in believers.
According to Luke, Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room at the inn.
Sample questions
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Name the three persons of the Trinity.
- •Creator, Redeemer, Church
- •Father, Prophet, Angel
- ✓Father, Son, Holy Spirit
- •God, Jesus, Mary
Who were Jesus' parents?
- •Elizabeth and Zechariah
- •Martha and Lazarus
- ✓Mary and Joseph
- •Ruth and Boaz
What does resurrection mean?
- •Becoming a spirit
- •Being reincarnated
- ✓Coming back to life
- •Going to heaven
What is Palm Sunday?
- ✓Jesus enters Jerusalem
- •Jesus is crucified on the cross
- •Jesus rises from the dead
- •Jesus shares the Last Supper
What do Christians believe heaven is?
- •A garden on earth
- •A place of rebirth
- ✓Being with God forever
- •Reunion with ancestors
What do Christians mean by sin?
- •Breaking a national law
- •Eating forbidden foods
- •Forgetting a prayer
- ✓Going against God's will
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