Year 7 - Religious education
Predestination across denominations
Denominations: why did the Christian Church become diverse?
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Unit Summary
In this unit pupils will gain an understanding that Christianity is a family of worldviews. They will examine historical splits such as that between Catholicism and Orthodoxy alongside groups such as Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses to see areas of commonality and difference.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain that belief in predestination originates from the Bible and is interpreted differently across different Christian denominations.
Key Notes
- Predestination is the belief that God has decided all that will happen, including who will receive salvation.
- Different beliefs about predestination originate from different interpretations of Biblical teaching.
- Calvinism is an example of a Christian denomination that teaches that God has predestined people to both heaven & hell.
- The Catholic Church teaches that God has only predestined people to heaven.
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints teaches that God has foreordained people rather than predestined them.
Vocabulary To Learn
- denomination: a branch of Christianity
- elect: to choose someone; in Christianity, people chosen by God for eternal life in heaven
- foreordination: the belief that God gives people duties and responsibilities that they are called to fulfil
- predestination: the belief that God has already decided all that will happen
- salvation: being saved from sin and its consequences, leading to eternal life with God
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- You can't believe in both predestination and free will.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Predestination is the belief that God has decided all that will happen, including who will receive salvation. Different beliefs about predestination originate from different interpretations of Biblical teaching.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'denomination'
a branch of Christianity.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: You can't believe in both predestination and free will. Correction: Christians can believe in both because: 1) God knows the free choices we will make, which enables him to predestine us; 2) We have been created with a nature which predetermines us to heaven or hell, we can still act freely within this nature.
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