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What is God like?
Think of ten words that Christians might use to try and explain what God is like.
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2. Where do ideas about God come from?
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Omnipotent – God is all-powerful. God has unlimited power and can do anything.
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Omniscience – God is all-knowing. God has infinite knowledge, he knows everything, even the future.
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Omnibenevolence – God is all loving. God is perfectly good and all loving.
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Omnipresence – God is everywhere at the same time.
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Immanence – God is within all. God is present in all living things
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Transcendence – God is above all. God is independent of the universe and physical existence.
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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.
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?
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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
Extension: Which quality do you think is the most important and why? Give reasons to support your answer
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11. 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?
Stretch – What would be the most suitable way to represent God in art?
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12. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
Pieter de Grebber God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand
God the Father by Cima da Conegliano
Why do you think He has been painted like this?
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13. 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?

15. What does ‘omnipotent’ mean?
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16. What does ‘omnipresent’ mean?
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17. What does ‘omnibenevolence’ mean?
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18. What does ‘omniscience’ mean?
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19. What does ‘transcendence’ mean?
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20. What does ‘immanence’ mean?
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21. Why do you think god is often painted looking like a human?
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22. Which quality of God, that you’ve learnt today, do you think is the most important?
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24. Using 10 words only – tell the class something you learnt today that you didn’t know before
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