Scripture (1st Quiz)

Chapter 1 (Proofs + Vocabulary)

The Unmoved Mover

One of the five scientific proofs. It states that for the world to move forward there must've been a "First Mover" who started everything. That "Unmoved Mover" is God.

The First Cause

One of the five scientific proofs. It states that everything that exists had to be created by something or someone. There has to be some first cause, or something that started the universe off.

Everything Comes From Something

One of the five scientific proofs. It states that nothing can create something out of nothing. For anything to exist, there must be some necessary being who always existed and brought other things into existence.

The Supreme Model

One of the five scientific proofs. It says that you can recognize good, justice, truth, beauty, and so on in the world. These qualities are compared to one supreme model or reference point: God.

The Grand Designer

One of the five scientific proofs. It states that the world contains order, beauty, symmetry, and power that only a Grand Designer could create. The impossibility of human life forming tells us that someone must've designed us.

Natural Revelation

The knowledge of the existence of God and his basic attributes that can be derived by human reason while reflected on the created order.

Bible/Sacred Scripture

The books that contain the truth of God's Revelation and were composed by human writers inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Doctor of the Church

A title officially conferred on a saint by the pope or by a general council declaring that person to be holy, wise, learned, and therefore a source of sound theological teaching for the Church.

Beauty & Truth

One of the heartfelt proofs. It states that God gives us a piece of Heaven on Earth. He gives us happiness, joy, beauty, etc. on Earth to give us hints of what Heaven is like.

Moral Goodness/Conscience/Freedom

One of the heartfelt proofs. It says that we all have a call to do good and avoid evil. You sense deep inside that some behaviors are simply wrong or right. Our conscience is the gift of freedom to be able to make personal, moral, and just decisions.

Love and Intelligence

One of the heartfelt proofs. It states that, along with free will, they are spiritual realities that cannot be explained by the existence of a material universe alone. The feelings must've had to have come from a Supreme Being.

Theology

The study of religion.

Thiest

Someone who believes a god exists.

Athiest

Someone who doesn't believe a god exists.

-gnos (suffix)

To know

theo (prefix)

God/Religion

mono (prefix)

One/Single

poly (prefix)

Multiple/Many

-ism (suffix)

Belief

Agnostic

Someone who is unsure whether a god exists or not.

Monotheist

Someone who believes in one god.

Polytheist

Someone who believes in many gods.

Faith

A gift given to us so we can believe in things that are unexplained or that we don't understand.

Divine

Something holy that comes from God.

Revelation

To reveal/show something.

Divine Revelation

God revealing himself to us.

Sacred

Holy/Divine

Scripture

A from of writing.

Sacred Scripture

Holy writings inspired by God (The Bible).

Sacred Tradition

The traditions of the Church that aren't written down, but passed down from generation to generation.

Magisterium

The official teaching office of the Church. Made up of the Pope and Bishops.

Apostles

The 12 people chosen by Jesus to carry out his work.

Disciples

The followers/worshipers of Jesus.

Apostolic Succession

The Apostles' powers passed down generation to generation.

History

Recorded events that have happened in the past.

Salvation

To save/saving.

Salvation History

God working throughout history to save us from sin.

Sin

A bad action that offends God and harms our relationship with him, in the Bible it means the death of something.

Religion

The organized system of how someone practices their faith (or worships their god).

Holy Trinity

The central mystery of the Christian Faith. It states that there are Three Divine Persons in one God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Idolatry

Worshiping someone or something other than God.

Covenant

A binding/solemn agreement between humans or between God and his people, holding each other to a particular course of action.

Incarnation

When Jesus Christ took on a human nature in order to save humanity from sin. The term literally means "being made flesh."

Christ

A Greek translation of the word "Messiah" in Hebrew, which means "anointed one." It became the proper name to Jesus because he accomplished (perfectly) the divine mission of the priest, prophet, and king.

Resurrection

When Jesus rose from the dead 3 days after his crucifixion.

Pentecost

Often called the birthday of the Church, it was when the Holy Spirit descended upon Mary and the Apostles.

Deposit of Faith

The faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Tradition passed down from the Apostles' time to the present day.

New Testament

The 27 books of the Bible written by the Apostles which tell about Jesus' life, ministry, Passion and Glorification, and the beginnings of his Church.

Bishop

One who received the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, he's a shepherd of a particular church entrusted to him.

Inerrant/Infallible

Without error

Vulgate

When St. Jerome translated the Bible from Greek to Latin.

Vulgar (present)

Bad language (swears, curses, etc.).

Vulgar (past)

The common language of the people.

Christian

A follower of Jesus Christ. Not all of them are Catholics.

Protestants

People who protested the authority of the Pope or how he was living the teachings, and broke off from the Church to make their own.

Religious Truth

The deeper/true message of something.

Exegesis

Analyzing what stories mean (both literally and metaphorically).

Historical Criticism

One of the four Criticisms. It's when people consider the historical and cultural context of people at the time.

Source Criticism

One of the four Criticisms. It's when people consider where the people's information came from.

Form Criticism

One of the four Criticisms. It's when people consider the "shape" or genre of the story.

Redacim Criticism

One of the four Criticisms. It's when people consider what was left out of a story or how the story was edited.

Koine

The common Greek language, it was spoken by the 1st Century Roman Empire.

Dead Sea Scrolls

The Old Testament books found in 1947 in a cave near the Dead Sea, they revealed some Jewish practices in Jesus' time.

Literary Genre

A type of writing that has a certain style, content, or form.

Literal Sense

The meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture that are discovered by Exegesis.

Oral Tradition

The process of sharing stories and information by word.

Genre

A type of writing that has a particular style.

Allegory

A comparison where many elements of a story stand for something deeper (abstract ideas, moral qualities, spiritual realities, etc.).

Creed

A formal statement of religious belief.

Etiology

A story that gives the cause of something.

Fable

A small story with a moral, usually involving animals that act and speak like human beings.

History (genre)

A record of events that is based off of the life/development of a people, country, or institution.

Law

A rule of conduct set up by authority, society or custom.

Prophecy

An inspired statement made by a prophet that expresses God's will.

Genealogy

A record of someone's ancestry.

Riddle

A question or statement that teases the mind, requiring thought and application of the mind.

Parable

A vivid story told to convey religious truth.

Ark of the Covenant

The Jewish's only physical manifestation of God on earth, it was built while the Israelites wandered in the desert and was used until the building of the First Temple.

Scribes

People trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread.

Gentile

A non-Jew.

Evangelist

One who proclaims the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Allegorical Sense

The metaphorical meaning the author wanted to convey (seeing the big picture).

Moral Sense

The message about how to live our lives.

Anagogical Sense

The way we know how we're going to get to Heaven with God.

Sacrament

A source/sign of grace given to us by Jesus Christ that's entrusted to the Church in order to give us grace through the Holy Spirit.

Liturgy of the Hours

The prayer of the Church at specific times of day, it's also known as the Divine Office. It uses readings from Scripture (usually psalms and hymns).

Liturgy

The official public worship[ of the Church.

Lecto Divina

A prayer tradition of "sacred reading," and its intent is for the person to meet God through Scripture.