Cofresi Test 3/31 Second

  • Protestants do not believe in original sin because that means you had to be born with sin.

  • Protestants do have the first sin. (Probably not important)

  • “The Fall” and “Original Sin” are one Chapter and “ Cain and Abel” is a different chapter.

  • Genesis Chapter 2 ends with God creating the world and making it good.

  • Eden: means delightful or paradise.

  • There are two trees in the Garden of Eden: “The Tree of Life” and “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

  • The spiritual state of Adam and Eve is called original holiness and says “They were naked and not ashamed” GEN 2:25.

  • God’s command about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: “In the day that you eat it, you will die.”  GEN 2:15-17

  • The Serpent in the story of the Serpent & The Woman is cunning as he questions and creates doubt, it is also hostile to God and seductive to woman

  • Woman’s response: knows God’s command and the Consequences.

  • The serpent tells them: “You will be like gods, who know, good and evil.”

  • There are 3 types of Temptation: “Good for Food” which is physical; “A delight to the eyes” which is mental/sensual; and “To be desired to make one wise” which is spiritual/identity.

  • “She took it and ate it” - Referring to Eve eating the fruit that God said to not eat, which is an active sin.

  • “She gave some to her husband and he ate it.” - He is ignorant of death and waits to see what happened to Eve and mainly does not tell her to stop. He did not protest.

  • Suddenly they “knew they were naked & sewed fig leaves for themselves”.

  • They hid themselves from the presence of the Lord.

  • The sin they commit in verses 6-8 is “Disobedience”

  • Adam and Eve know the commandment

  • God questions their knowledge of their nakedness.

  • Adam blames Eve & God: “The Woman you gave me 

  • Serpent’s consequences of sin: crawl, eat dust, and enmity between the woman and the serpent and the offspring of each

  • There’s hope for mankind in the reference to offspring of the woman crushing the offspring of the serpent. 

  • The Protoevangelium = First good news

  • Enmity: means hostility

  • Woman’s consequences: multiply pain in childbirth, desire for husband, husband will rule over her.

  • Man’s consequences: The ground he lives off is cursed, he will eat in toil and will return to the ground.

  • The curse Adam gains from the ground is that he is mortal.

  • Toil: is physical labor

  • The serpent, man, and woman were kicked out of the garden.

  • Man = Adam

  • Adam names everything including the woman.

  • Eve = Woman

  • Eve is called “Mother of All Living Things” 

  • Protoevangelium = “The First Good News”: the offspring of  the woman will overtake the offspring of the serpent

  • God mentions that man is “Like one of us”(The “us” is God’s heavenly court)

  • God makes them Garments of Animal skin.

  • The Cherubim with a flaming sword guards the way to the tree of life.

  • They know the commandment God gave them

  • They know the consequence of the commandment 

  • God questions their knowledge of their nakedness

  • Ama blames Eve & God: “The woman you gave me.”

  • Eve blames the serpent: “The serpent fooled me.”

  • The final consequence of sin is that they are all expelled from the garden.

  • 4 Themes of the Fall: Awareness, Choice/ Free Will, Consequences, God’s Mercy

  • Sin: an offense against reason, religious truth, and right conscience

  • Sin is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to things

  • They are words, actions, or desires contrary to eternal law

  • 4 consequences of sin go: 1. Alienates us from God - Deprives us of God’s glory, leads to death. 2. Alienates us from ourselves - hardens our hearts, weakens our minds, enslaves our wills. 3. Alienates us from others - hurts our relationship. 4. Alienates us from nature - we disregard and disrespect God’s creation

  • Alienate: means separate

  • With original sin, we lost: 1. Eternal life - disease and death entered human history. 2. The soul’s control over the body. 3. Equality in relationship B/T men and women - now it's marked by lust and domination 4. Harmony with creation was broken.

  • Concupiscence = inclination of evil

  • A weakened human nature (subject to ignorance, suffering, and death)

  • The lasting effect of original sin on human beings is concupiscence

  • We are born into the condition of original sin through propagation

  • Propagation = Naturally reproduced or transmitted from person to person

  • The doctrine of original sin is essential to our faith because, without it, we would not need Jesus…We are sinners in need of the salvation offered through him

  • Mortal sins: 1. Serious/Grave matter(Any of the ten commandments). 2. Full knowledge that what we are doing is seriously wrong or contrary to God’s eternal/ Divine Law 3. Complete consent - personal and deliberate (freely)(

  • All there must be present for it to be mortal.

  • Mortal sin kills our relationship/eternal separation from God = Hell