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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Lasting for ever; God has no beginning or end and is not limited by time.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Specification 3.1.1.1 · Paper 1
Without beginning or end; not limited by time.
Revise: Art as ExpressionGod is eternal, meaning without beginning or end, and transcendent, meaning beyond and not limited by creation. Depicting God as an older man makes God recognisable, but may misleadingly suggest that God has a body or has aged. Showing God and Adam at a similar scale can express likeness while failing to convey the greatness of God compared with humanity.
Specification 1.3, 1.1, 1.6 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Develop a characteristic by explaining its meaning: for example, Brahman is eternal, so Brahman does not begin or end.
Use Romans 1:20 precisely: creation reveals God’s ‘eternal power and divine nature’. Explain how this supports the argument.
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Without beginning or end. Catholics believe God exists eternally, unlike the universe, which has a beginning.
God is eternal: without beginning or end. The universe has a beginning, but God is already its Creator. He is not another created thing within it.
Without beginning or end; not subject to death or the passage of time.
Existing without beginning or end. Christians believe God is eternal and therefore was not created.
Specification 1.3, 2.7 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Without beginning or end. Catholics believe God’s existence does not depend on the universe.
Revise: CreationEternal: God has no beginning or end. Genesis describes the beginning of creation, not the beginning of God. The Catechism explains that the eternal God gives a beginning to everything outside himself.
Existing without beginning or end; in Sikh belief, God is not limited by time.
