Nature of God

• Religious education
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Nature of God Quiz

What is the personal nature of God?

1. The idea that God is an individual person
2. The idea that God is all powerful
3. The idea that God is unknowable and mysterious
4. The idea that God has no ‘human’ characteristics

What does it mean when we say God is immutable?

1. God is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe
2. God cannot be changed by anything
3. God is present and involved with life on Earth
4. God has no beginning and no end

Which term describes God as an impersonal force rather than an individual person?

1. Impersonal nature of God
2. Eternal
3. Omniscient
4. Transcendent

What does it mean when we say God is the creator?

1. God has made and designed everything in existence
2. God has no ‘human’ characteristics
3. God is all loving
4. God is all powerful

What does it mean when we say God is eternal?

1. God is all knowing
2. God is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe
3. God is present and involved with life on Earth
4. God has no beginning and no end

What does love mean to you?

Agape

The Ancient Greeks had around 30 words to describe Love in all its shades and complexities. 

Agape – the love of humanity

The kind of love which makes us sorrowful when we hear of a crisis in another nation (or our own); that makes us give our time or money to charity; and makes us feel connected to people we don’t know simply on the basis of our shared experience as human beings.

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