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Christianity |
belief that Jesus died for the rest of the world's people to live the world's largest religion and 2nd monotheistic religion |
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Jesus |
son of God part of the trinity Jewish and was crucified (messiah) |
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Christianity |
the followers of Christianity |
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disciples/12 disciples |
12 followers of Jesus who after he was crucified spread his word |
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Jerusalem |
the place in which Jesus was born (Holy Land) |
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crucifixion |
being killed on a cross (Jesus was crucified) |
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resurrection |
to rise from the dead |
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ascension |
one's journey to heaven |
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Bible |
the book of worship |
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new covenant |
the belief that God is a loving God and once you die he will supposedly forgive you for all of the sins that you have commited |
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gospel/gospels |
first four books of the new testemant |
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trinity |
God in three parts the son the father and the holy spirit |
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holy spirit |
the protector |
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church |
is the christians place of worship |
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priest |
the leader of a church |
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eucharist |
the act of communion the remembrance of Jesus the bread is his body and the wine is his blood these were the last things that he ate and drank before he was crucified |
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baptism |
purrifing a baby from sin so that God can except hi |
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confirmation |
right of passage for a 13 year old to become an adult |
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Christmas |
the celebration of christ's birth |
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Easter |
the celebration of christ's resurrection |
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Lent |
is the day of preperation giving something up that you care about |
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parables |
are story used to teach a lesson or show a point |
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martin luther |
started the lutherens which is a new denomination of Christianity |
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Messiah |
a sign from God for change sent in a person form |
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Gentile |
anyone who lives in Israel who is not Jewish |
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sacrament |
an effective sign that conveys grace and which was established by Jesus and given to the Church |
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counter reformation |
the purifying of the Roman Catholic church |
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Judaism |
the belief that Abraham mad a covenant with god that if he and his people followed God's law then God would give him and his people Canaan or Israel |
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Abraham |
the founder of Judaism made a covenant with Gods |
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covenant |
a strong deal |
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Promise Land |
Canaan or Israel the land that God promised Abraham |
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Chosen People |
the people that God chose to be his special followers |
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Exodus |
the result from the last plague |
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Moses |
was another Messiah and he lead the Jewish people to freedom |
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Ten Commandments |
10 laws in which Jews lead their life by |
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Canaan |
The promise land or Israel |
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David |
one of the first king's he asstablished Israel |
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King Solomon |
another king like David who built the 2nd temple which eventually became the western wall |
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western wall |
a temple built by King Solomon which was knocked down by the Romans. Only one wall was left standing and Jews pray there seperated by gender to this day |
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prophet |
someone who for tells the future in the form of a human who was sent by God |
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Diaspora |
the scattering of people |
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anti-Semitism |
the strong hatred of Jews |
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pogrom |
politiclly organized death supporeted by the government |
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holocaust |
when hitler exterminated the Jews |
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Palestine |
the roman name for Canaan The Promise Land or Israel |
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Zionism/Zionist |
believe that Jews should be segregated from the other religions fought for their own seperate state |
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Tenahk |
old testimant has 36 books |
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Torah |
first five books of the Tenahk |
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Talmud |
interpertation of the tenahk |
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synagogue |
place of worship for Jews |
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rabbi |
leader of worship for Jews |
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Bar Mitzvah |
ritual that brings youth into adult hood |
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Hebrew |
the language of Jewish this language is written in the Tenahk and the Torah |
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kosher |
the diatary laws practiced by religous Jews |
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Sabbath |
day of worship and rest |
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Rosh Hashanah |
Jewish New year |
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Yom Kippur |
day of attonemnet |
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Passover |
days of exedos 8 days |
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seder |
meal people eat at passover |
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Hanukkah |
the festival of light |
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Israel |
Modern day where Jewish people live |
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Islam |
means submission to god and is the 3r oldest monotheistic religion in the world |
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Allah |
God |
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Muslims |
means obediant ones and they are the followers of Islam |
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Muhammed |
the founder of Islam he is the prophet and God's word was revealed to him |
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Mecca |
Muhammed was born here and he tried to convince everyone to become Islam but they thought that he was making fun of god so they kicked him out |
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Medina |
place Muhammed whent after he was kicked out of Mecca and he converted everyone there into Muslims raised an army and then conquered Mecca |
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Hijrah |
means the flight |
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Qur'an |
the holly book for Islam |
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Sunnah |
the law interpertations of the Qur'an |
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predestination |
(theology) being determined in advance |
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five pillars |
rules in which muslim's live by |
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Ramadan |
(Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan |
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Abu Bakr |
sun in law of Muhammed and tried to conquer Mecca after Muhammed's death |
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Ka'bah |
place of worship in which Muslim's are to take a pilgrimage to this is said to have been the place where ibraham tried to sacrafice his son for God |
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mosque |
Islam place of worship |
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imam |
the leader of Muslim worship |
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muezzin |
the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day |
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Id-ul-Fitr |
festival that happens at the end of Ramadan |
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Id-ul-Adha |
the celebration and support for those who are doing their Hajj |
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jihad |
a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal |
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caliph |
the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth |
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Shari'ah |
the laws |
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Shi'ite |
believe ini Alli instead of Abu Bakr they are conservative |
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Sunni |
believe in Abu Bakr instead of Alli they are very liberal |
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purdah |
seperation by gender |
