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T1 Progressive skills and content

• Identify some different types of biblical texts, using technical terms accurately.

• Explain connections between biblical texts and Christian ideas of God, using theological terms.

• Make clear connections between Bible texts studied and what Christians believe about God; for example, through how churches are designed.

• Show how Christians put their beliefs into practice in worship.

• Weigh up how biblical ideas and teachings about God as holy and loving might make a difference in the world today, developing insights of their own.

T1 Knowledge Building Blocks

• Christians believe God is omnipotent, omniscient and eternal, and that this means God is worth worshipping.

• Christians believe God is both holy and loving, and Christians have to balance ideas of God being angered by sin and injustice (see Fall) but also loving, forgiving, and full of grace.

• Christians do not all agree about what God is like, but try to follow his path, as they see it in the Bible or through Church teaching.

• Christians believe getting to know God is like getting to know a person rather than learning information.

T2 Progressive skills and content

• Explain the place of Incarnation and Messiah within the ‘big story’ of the Bible.

• Identify Gospel and prophecy texts, using technical terms.

• Explain connections between biblical texts, Incarnation and Messiah, using theological terms.

• Show how Christians put their beliefs about Jesus’ Incarnation into practice in different ways in celebrating Christmas.

• Comment on how the idea that Jesus is the Messiah makes sense in the wider story of the Bible.

• Weigh up how far the idea that Jesus is the Messiah — a Saviour from God — is important in the world today and, if it is true, what difference that might make in people’s lives.

T2 Knowledge Building Blocks

• Jesus was Jewish.

• Christians believe Jesus is God in the flesh.

• They believe that his birth, life, death and resurrection were part of a longer plan by God to restore the relationship between humans and God.

• The Old Testament talks about a ‘rescuer’ or ‘anointed one’ — a messiah. Some texts talk about what this ‘messiah’ would be like.

• Christians believe that Jesus fulfilled these expectations, and that he is the Messiah. (Jewish people do not think Jesus is the Messiah.)

• Christians see Jesus as their Saviour (See Salvation).