What is God like Think of ten words
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What is God like? Think of ten words that Christians might use to try and explain what God is like. LO: To explore Christian beliefs about god
Where do ideas about God come from? LO: To examine what God is like
• Omnipotent – God is all-powerful. God has unlimited power and can do anything. LO: To examine what God is like
• Omniscience – God is all-knowing. God has infinite knowledge, he knows everything, even the future. LO: To examine what God is like
• Omnibenevolence – God is all loving. God is perfectly good and all loving. LO: To examine what God is like
• Omnipresence – God is everywhere at the same time. LO: To examine what God is like
• Immanence – God is within all. God is present in all living things LO: To examine what God is like
• Transcendence – God is above all. God is independent of the universe and physical existence. LO: To examine what God is like
• Omnipotent – God is all-powerful. God has unlimited power and can do anything. • Omniscience – God is all-knowing. God has infinite knowledge, he knows everything, even the future. • Omnibenevolence – God is all loving. God is perfectly good and all loving. • Omnipresence – God is everywhere at the same time. • Transcendence – God is above all. God is independent of the universe and physical existence. • Immanence – God is within all. God is present in all living things. LO: To examine what God is like 1– For each new key word – draw a picture to represent what it means. 2– Write the definitions then a sentence as to why Christians might think this. 3– How can God be transcendent and immanent at the same time? How can God be all knowing, all powerful and all loving and yet there is still evil in the world? Try use drawings / diagrams to explain your answers. Extension 1: Which quality do you think is the most important and why? Give reasons to support your answer. Extension 2: Why do you think most artists portray God as looking like man?
• Use the Bibles to look up the following references. Each of these Bible verses matches to one of the qualities you have just listed. You need to decide which one it matches best and write it down. Luke 1: 37 For nothing will be impossible with God Omnipotent 1 John 3: 20 For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Omniscience Isaiah 55: 8 -9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts Transcendence John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life Omnibenevolence Proverbs 15: 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good Omnipresence Job 33: 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life Immanence LO: To examine what God is like Extension: Which quality do you think is the most important and why? Give reasons to support your answer
• Christians believe that people find it difficult to say what God is like because God is beyond human understanding. When people talk about God they tend to use pictures, symbols or symbolic language. Sometimes people try to describe God by saying what God is not like, e. g. God is not cruel. There are many famous pieces of art which are supposed to be of God. What do you think many of them have in common? LO: To examine what God is like Stretch – What would be the most suitable way to represent God in art?
• Pieter de Grebber God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo God the Father by Cima da Conegliano LO: To examine what God is like Why do you think He has been painted like this?
• Watch the two clips below and consider what qualities does ‘God’ have in the clips and why do you think they portrayed God the way they did?
What does ‘omnipotent’ mean? BACK
What does ‘omnipresent’ mean? BACK
What does ‘omnibenevolence’ mean? BACK
What does ‘omniscience’ mean? BACK
What does ‘transcendence’ mean? BACK
What does ‘immanence’ mean? BACK
Why do you think god is often painted looking like a human? BACK
Which quality of God, that you’ve learnt today, do you think is the most important? BACK
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Using 10 words only – tell the class something you learnt today that you didn’t know before BACK