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Here are the simplest and easiest-to-memorize versions of your answers for questions 2, 4, and 5, written in plain, high school-level language while keeping the core ideas intact:

2. Natural law, eternal law, divine law, and reason

Natural law is the moral sense God gave us at birth, helping us know right from wrong using reason.

Eternal law is God’s perfect wisdom that runs the whole universe—it’s the source of natural law.

Divine law (like the Bible and Church teaching) explains things natural law can’t show on its own.

All three work together to help us make good choices and reach our goal: union with God.

✅ Super Simple:

• Natural law = built-in moral compass

• Eternal law = God’s wisdom behind it

• Divine law = revealed truths that guide us

• All help us live morally and get to God

4. Conscience, formatum, freedom, and character

Conscience is our inner voice that tells us right from wrong.

Formatum means forming that voice the right way using truth from reason, the Bible, and the Church.

Freedom is needed because only free choices shape who we are.

Following our conscience helps build character, which is our moral habits and identity.

✅ Super Simple:

• Conscience = inner moral voice

• Formatum = how we shape that voice

• Freedom = needed for choices to count

• Character = who we become from our choices

5. Original sin, personal sin, and the Fall

The Fall is when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and broke the original peace.

That caused original sin, a weakness we’re born with (not our fault) that makes sin easier.

Personal sin is when we choose to do wrong, which adds to the damage.

Christ came to fix all of it.

✅ Super Simple:

• Fall = first sin that broke everything

• Original sin = the weakness we inherit

• Personal sin = our own bad choices

• Jesus = heals all of it