A02: Behaviour, Attitudes, and Lifestyle                                    Explain how a Belief in the Two Titles you have chosen might make a                                   Difference in the Everyday Lives of Christian Believers Today

The two titles that I have chosen are Son of God and Jesus/Saviour. The Son of God title shows an intellectual belief. This means that it is a detailed point explaining much about the divine characteristics of Jesus. The only way for a Christian to believe in this title is if they believe that Jesus is the Son of God. By this they mean that God and Jesus have a close relationship, a human relationship as well as a divine relationship. For Christians today, this means that if they worship Jesus as they would worship God, so you follow his example.

     So, how does somebody show that they worship Jesus? In the Transfiguration, it displays how to follow Jesus’ example, ‘As we gaze at your kingly brightness, so our faces display your likeness’(Transfiguration). This means that as Christians look upon Jesus’ greatness, their feelings can be told by what we are felling inside, which only Jesus can justify. But first Christians must worship Jesus through prayer, communion, etc. They follow his teachings and follow his example which is how they worship Jesus like God. A devout Christian, who worships Jesus, which is how some Christians are able to act like Jesus. A way in which a Christian may be able to follow Jesus’ ways are by following follow the Ten Commandments as they know that God has set them down. There can be no dispute about being a dedicated Christian if you followed ‘God’s laws’. Other ways in which you could follow Jesus is to fight for justice like when he lived his life. He worked towards equality so all Jew and non-Jewish people were equal. ‘A woman, whose daughter had an evil spirit in her, heard about Jesus and came to him at once and fell to his feet. The woman was a gentile, born in the region of Phoenicia in Syria’ (The Syro-Phoenician Women’s Daughter) There are also many other ways in which a Christian can behave in their everyday lives like reading the Bible, so you would study it personally so that you can relate to it, and you could also be baptised, you would be following in the path of Jesus and becoming a devote Christian.

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     But of course, many Christians have different beliefs about Jesus and about other things like baptism, whilst the Quakers and the Salvationists reject the idea of Baptism because they believe that you shouldn’t have to prove yourself in these ways to God, other Christians accept the idea of baptising people as they believe that you should act like Jesus as best you can.

     Lastly, on the title of Son of God, Jesus, throughout Mark’s Gospel shows his human and divine characteristics, so he shows how you should follow him and worship, but also at the ...

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