Religion Midterm

Original Innocense

Not knowing evil, guilt, or shame

Original Unity

That we were created from one nature and are designed for communion

Love

To choose the good of the other for that person's sake

Original sin

The first decision to turn away from relationship with God

Immortality

The ability to never die

Self-mastery

Keeping the right order of our intellect, will, and desires

Complementarity

Completing the other, like two halves of a set

Lust

Using others as object to satisfy our own desires

How does chastity help us to live more as we were created to be

It helps us use our love for others at the right moments and in the right amount, and it will strengthen our relationship with other and be more in communion with others like God made us to be

Redemption

Buying something back

Incarnation

When God became (human) flesh

Messiah

The anointed one whom the Jews expected to fulfill God's promises

Protoevangelium

Man's ultimate triumph over sin through a coming Savior

Rosary

A prayer meditating on the mysteries of Jesus' life while asking for Mary's interccession

Lectio divina

Reading, meditating, and praying to God about a Scripture passage

Annunciation

When the angel announced to Mary that she would be the mother of God

Universal call to holiness

Every person is called by God to be a saint

Messianic prophecy

An expectation or prediction that prophet or scripture made about the Messiah

Example of a Messianic Prophecy

In the book of Isaiah, the Messiah will be killed along with evil-doers even though he had done nothing wrong and he would bore our sins, all of which our Messiah, Jesus, did

Why do we need a redeemer who is 100% human

Humans are the ones who messed up the relationship so we have to be the ones to fix it, we need a human to fix it on our behalf

Why do we need a redeemer who is 100% God

A god is the only thing that can pay the infinite price

Moses' Covenant

Ten Commandments

David's Covenant

God promises that your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever

Abraham's Covenant

Circumcisions

Noah's Covenant

Rainbow

How does an event in Abraham's life prefigure an event in Jesus' life

Abraham nearly sacrificing Isaac on the mountain. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son, like how God sacrificed his only son, Jesus. Abraham and Isaac also had to carry wood for the fire, which was the location of what would have been the sacrifice, and Jesus had to carry his wooden cross to the spot of his crucifixion. Abraham was called from God to sacrifice his son and Jesus was called from God to die for our sins

Sign of New Covenant

The blood and water that spilled out of Jesus' side when the soldiers stabbed him after taking him down from the cross. Also stands for the "wine"/blood used in the Eucharist

Types of miracles

Jesus' power over nature, over death, over angels/demons, and over sin

What type of miracle gives the strongest evidence that Jesus is not just a holy person or miracle-worker, but actually God himself

Power over sin because no human can actually heal or forgive sin. Other humans can perform the other types of miracles, but only Jesus can forgive sin

Will cross references or footnotes often help inform you about Old Testament prefigurement of an event in Jesus' life

Cross references because it takes you to a passage, that could be in the Old Testament, that explains the context or background of something, that could be a prefigurement

Transfiguration

The mystery from Christ's life in which God's glory shone through and transformed Jesus' physical appearance while he was in the company of the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah. Peter, James, and John witnessed this event.

Point of the Beatitudes

So Jesus could tell the people what qualities could lead them to Heaven

First Beatitude

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Second Beatitude

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth

Third Beatitude

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted

Fourth Beatitude

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied

Fifth Beatitude

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy

Sixth Beatitude

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God

Seventh Beatitude

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

Eighth Beatitude

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

(1) Human Dignity

the quality that comes with having a rational (human) soul

(1) Complementarity

that man and woman were made for each other, that they complement each other

(1) Nuptial meaning of the body

that humans are made for marriage and to be in communion with one another

(1) Self-Gift

Giving yourself to someone entirely in love

(1) Original Justice

the harmony at the beginning of the world

(1) Free will

the ability to choose

(1) Protoevangelium

the first gospel/good news

(1) Annunciation

When Gabriel tells Mary she will conceive Jesus

(1) Incarnation

Jesus becoming man

(1) What does it mean for the body to express the soul?

Our bodies make the unseen seen and reveal that we are made to complete each other

(1) What were the preternatural gifts? Give an example.

Preternatural gifts were the qualities man had before original sin.

EX. -Self mastery (Control over oneself and emotions)

\-Immortality

(1) Describe three consequences of original sin

1. We lost harmony with God (We don't have an intimate personal relationship anymore)
2. We lost harmony with others (We blamed and controlled each other)
3. We lost harmony with ourself (Lied, blamed and yeah)

(1) Def: Love

Giving yourself up for someone or doing something for the benefit of someone else

(1) Def: Lust

Strong desire that takes control of us, so much so that we use others as objects to fulfill our own personal desire

(1) How is love different then lust?

Love is doing something for someone else that doesn't benefit of even hurts you, Lust is using and objectifying them and entangling them in your own sin.

(1) Def: Sexuality

The aspect of our person that expresses love in fundamentally masculine or feminine ways it affects all the ways we express love.

(1) Def: Chastity

the right use of our sexuality

(1) How do sexuality and chastity express what we are made for?

That we are made to give love and have great control over how we give love.

(1) What gives human souls dignity over animal souls? Give three (3) examples?

1. Conscience - We can understand the implications & products of our actions.
2. Free will - We can make rational & informed decisions.
3. Our ability to form & recall abstract concepts & complicated ideas.

(1) How does our belief in the trinity imply that we are made to give ourselves over entirely in love?

God was formed out of love. Every part of him was born through the love of himself and us so to fully give ourselves over to God we must love others fully.

(1) How do one of the following Christian beliefs impact the way we should live?

(Humanity, self-gift or Trinity) Give a specific example.

(Self-Gift) It live in a way that honors this principle we must give ourselves over to God and others. To tirelessly serve the good of others and devote our lives to God himself.

(2) Universal Call to Holiness

the idea that every person is called to be holy, to be christ for someone else

(2) Intercession

A prayer where you ask someone or a group of people to pray on your behalf

(2) Covenant

a blood oath, unbreakable promise

(2) Redemption

to buy back

(2) Messianic Prophecy

OT predictions of the Messiah to come

(2) Prefigurement

An early indication of something that points to the later "real deal"

(2) Historical Man

A man of concupiscence

(2) Concupiscence

inclination to sin

(2) How is a covenant more that a promise or contract?

A covenant is more because it is unbreakable, it is sealed by blood and life and to break it would be unimaginable.

(2) Why does our redeemer need to be 100% man?

In order to make up for humanities mistakes we needed a human.

(2) Why does our redeemer need to be 100% God?

We needed a perfect human to do the job, the only one to be so was Jesus and this was bc he was God too.

(2) Describe how Scripture gives us models for prayer.

Name someone in OT who models prayer and how they do it.

It teaches us what to say and do and how to reflect.

David. He shows us to repent and ask for help while trusting in God.

(2) Compare Lectio Divina to another prayer we practiced.

Lectio is a bit different then an examination of conscience. In an examination it is almost all personal reflection but lectio is about reflection and listening to God.

(2) Describe at least three (3) OT covenants, the context, what God promised & the sign that humans were keeping to covenant. (There might not be a sign.)

1. God was talking to Abraham and told him that he would birth a great nation. The sign of the covenant was circumcision.
2. God promised David the throne while an unjust leader was in power. No sign.
3. God promised David the throne while an unjust leader was in power. No sign.

(2) Describe a specific example of messianic prophecy

Explain how Jesus fulfilled & exceeded messianic prophecies.

When it is said that the nations will be blessed through Jacobs family.

Jesus was the blessing in the generations and a blessing is an understatement to call the son of man.

(2) Why can't someone else be sacrificed?

Jesus is the perfect and only option because of his 100% God-ness and he 100% humanness. He is perfect but human and can properly fulfill the covenant.

(3) Def: Transfiguration

The Story on the mountain where Jesus talks with people past and present and it resembles Moses and his mountain story and God comes out and it proves that Jesus is really God

(3) Def: Passover, Seder

The meal that celebrates the angel of death passing over the Israelites

(3) Def: Last Supper

Jesus' last meal on Earth w his disciples

(3) Def: Anamnesis

The past and future being brought together to the present.

(3) Def: Kenosis

God emptying himself of his power to become human

(3) Choose and explain which is NOT a reason the catechism gives for why God became man:

A. To show us love

B. To be able to empathize with us

C. To make us God

D. To reconcile us with God

B. God doesn't need to empathize with us, he knows exactly what we are going through.

(3) Why did the word become flesh?

(God become man)

1. in order to save us by reconciling with God
2. So that we might know God's love
3. To be our model of holiness
4. to make us partakers in the divine nature

(3) What are the Beatitudes?

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
2. Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted
3. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth
4. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied
5. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied
6. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God
7. Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God
8. Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

(3) Explain what Jesus means when he calls himself "Son of Man"

He means that he is the fulfillment of the prophecy and he is the person whom God bestowed all the power and glory onto.

(3) Describe a parable & what it reveals about God or life with Him.

The parable of the mustard seed. It describes that a person with faith even as small in size as a simple seed and do extraordinary things with it.

(3) Explain what the purpose of Jesus' miracles were.

It reveals that God does not require us to be extraordinary in faith. We simply must believe.

Why did he heal some people and not others?

Jesus could have healed everyone but did not in order to show us what we could have when we join him in life and death.

(3) Explain an example of a miracle that showed Jesus was above any other miracle worker.

The healing of the paralytic. When he heals the man he tells him to rise and that his sins were forgiven. Prophets and saints did not have this sort of power.

(3) Explain how the Transfiguration give evidence that Jesus is not just a messiah, but God himself?

Because it connects the past and the future, people were brought back to life and God spoke on Jesus' behalf.

(3) How does a covenant in the Old Testament prefigure Jesus' establishment of a new covenant and how we celebrate it today?

When Jesus promised Abraham a nation as numerous as the stars and the covenant was circumcision. In the new covenant Jesus promises us new life and rebirth at the end of time and the sign of the covenant is communion. The beginning of the covenant is baptism.

(3) Describe how the eucharist is an example of anamnesis & why the Eucharist is to important to Catholics.

The Eucharist brings essence of Jesus Christ to the present even though the only times he is/will be on earth are in the past and future or something

(4) Def: Paschal Mystery

Jesus' passion, death, resurrection and ascension.

(4) Def: Passion

Jesus' great love for humanity and his suffering (on the cross)

(4) Def: Ascension

Jesus' rise to Heaven

(4) Def: Resurrection of the body

Jesus coming back to life

(4) Explain which is NOT a reason God allows suffering:

A. Love requires free will; free will requires real options; real options include suffering.

B. Suffering is a consequence of Adam and Eve's sin.

C. God created suffering to teach us a lesson.

D. Suffering can show love.

C. God does not want to have to punish us. To give us suffering without an error would be torture and God doesn't want to torture us.

(4) Explain two (2) specific ways in which we can participate in Jesus' Passion for out good or the good of others.

1. We can make sacrifices to give others more
2. We can hold others in high regard.

(4) Give evidence to explain how Jesus' Resurrection was a totally new event.

The disciples were shocked and at a loss for words they had seen some crazy stuff with Jesus and through him but never anything like this.