53-86

Question 0

Who was the procurator at the time of Jesus’s death?

Answer 0

Pontius Pilate

Question 1

What scriptural example shows Herod the Great’s cruelty?

Answer 1

Herod killed all the baby boys 2 and under in the area because he heard the “king of the Jews” was born.

Question 2

What did the Romans do to “discourage” people from challenging Roman power?

Answer 2

They were violent and cruel to rebellions. They threatened torture and violence (including crucifixion)

Question 3

What word applies to this definition: characterized by the presence of different ethnic, religious, or cultural groups?

Answer 3

Pluralistic

Question 4

Why was it shocking that Jesus called tax collectors to share his ministry?

Answer 4

They were sinnners, and people that other people did not like. Why would Jesus want to be involved with sinners?

Question 5

Toward whom did Jesus focus his ministry?

Answer 5

Sinners, tax collectors, women, sick, the poor, and people that were “unwanted” in society.

Question 6

What was the primary purpose of the synagogue?

Answer 6

1. A place of worship and prayer

Question 7

What was the primary purpose of the temple?

Answer 7

Place of sacrifice

Question 8

Three main Jewish feasts and what they celebrate

Answer 8

1. Passover
2. Pentecost
3. Tabernacles

Question 9

Why did the incarnation unite humanity with God?

Answer 9

The incarnation allowed us to share God’s divinity

Question 10

How does the Catechism unite humanity with God?

Answer 10

The son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it.

Question 11

How does the Catechism define the incarnation?

Answer 11

The Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it

Question 12

What does the name Jesus mean?

Answer 12

Emmanuel, Son of God.

Question 13

The beginning of Jesus’s earthly existence was when?

Answer 13

In Mary’s womb before he was born.

Question 14

Throughout the Old Testament, God prepared humanity for the incarnation. What did God do “in the fullness of time” and why did he do it?

Answer 14

God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law so that we might receive adoption.

Question 15

According to John chapter 1: who is the Word? What was (and is) the Word? What did the word become?

Answer 15

The Son is the Word

Question 16

Explain one of the three cases against Christianity and Chesterton’s response.

Answer 16

1. Men are much like beasts (and therefore not that special in creation)

A: We are similar to animals but so unlike. Apes have hands and the ability to do so much, but why don’t they do anything with them? We are so different that it requires an explanation.

Question 17

Chesterton believes three things need to be explained, (which leads us to the Christian answer)

Answer 17

1. The towering eccentricity of man among animals
2. A vast tradition of an ancient happiness
3. Partial perpetuation of joy in Catholic Countries

Question 18

What is Chesterton’s part 2 explanation that answers all three questions?

Answer 18

1. Heaven came upon earth with the power/seal of God called the image of God.
2. Heaven came to same mankind in the awful shape of man.

Question 19

Why was it important for God to take human nature?

Answer 19

.

Question 20

How does the son becoming flesh bring us closer to the Father?1

Answer 20

So that we can now share in his divinity

Question 21

How can Joseph be Jesus’s father?

Answer 21

Through adoption

Question 22

Why did the angels go to those shepherds?

Answer 22

Message was for everyone including for the poor

Question 23

Why did Jews not believe Jesus was truly the Son of God?

Answer 23

They were looking for an earthly king not a divine person

Question 24

Why did God chose a virgin?

Answer 24

Shows that Jesus is of God, his birth was a miracle.

Question 25

What was Jesus’s teaching?

Answer 25

Repent and believe in the Gospel. The knigdom of God is at hand.

Question 26

Why do Luke and Matthew tell this story of Jesus’s conception and birth?

Answer 26

To answer the question “when was Jesus divine?” - always

Question 27

What did Mary do that “made our salvation possible”?

Answer 27

She agreed to have Jesus

Said yes

Question 28

Explain why Mary is the mother of God

Answer 28

Jesus was God and she is Jesus’s mother

Question 29

What is a holy day of obligation?

Answer 29

The day where Catholics are required to receive the Eucharist. Every Sunday’s + 6 other days of the week
All saints day, Christmas

Question 30

What is the Immaculate Conception and to whom does it refer?

Answer 30

When Mary was conceived without sin

Question 31

What is the purpose of the immaculate conception?

Answer 31

Mary was conceived and born without sin, so the mother of Jesus was without sin

Question 32

Of what was Mary’s perpetual virginity a sign?

Answer 32

Jesus is divine and the miracle of his birth

Question 33

What is the assumption?

Answer 33

When Mary died her entire being, body and soul, were taken to heaven

Question 34

What is solemnity?

Answer 34

Solemnity is a principal feast in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 35

What is a beatific vision?

Answer 35

The eternal, direct perception of God, enjoyed by those who are in heaven.

Question 36

Why is the death of martyrs not seen as a defeat or time of mourning?

Answer 36

Their deaths were victory because they as a victory of Christ.

Question 37

What OT example do we have of praying for the dead?

Answer 37

2 Maccabees 12:44: “for if we were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would be useless to pray for them in death.”
By Judah

Question 38

Passover

Answer 38

• freedom from slavery