Catechism of the Catholic Church (355-384) Flashcards
God created man in His own what?
His own image
Of all creatures only man is able to?
Only man is “able to know and love his creator”
God created everything for man and man in return shall do what?
Man shall serve, love, and offer all creation back to God
The human race takes its origin from to men namely:
Adam and Christ
The first Adam became a?
Living soul
The second Adam became a?
Life-giving spirit
Because of its common origin the human race forms a unity for…
We all came from one ancestor [God], He made all nations inhabit the whole earth.
This term refers to human life or person, it refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him, that by which he is most especially in God’s image, it signifies the spiritual principle in man
Soul
This shares the dignity of the “image of God”, it is animated by a spiritual soul, it is intended to become a temple of the Spirit
The human body/person
These two things that makes up a man are not two nature united, but rather their union forms a single nature.
Spirit and matter or body and soul
The Church teaches that “…” is created immediately by God and is not produced by the parents. It is also immortal and does not perish when it is separated from the body through death.
Spiritual soul
The soul should be reunited with the body at the “…”
Final Resurrection
This signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.
The spirit
In no way is God in man’s image. He is …
Neither man nor woman. He is a pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference of the two sexes.
God created man and woman to…
God created man and woman together and willed each for the other. He created them to be a communion of persons, in which each can be “helpmate” to the other as they are equal and complementary.
Through this God unites man and woman in order to multiply.
Through marriage God unites them in a way that by forming “one flesh”, they can transmit human life.
In God’s plan man and woman have the vocation of “…” the earth.
Man and woman have the vocation of “SUBDUING” the earth. They shall love everything that exists
The first man was not only created to be good, but was also established in…
Friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and the creation around him.
Our first parents, Adam and Eve, were constituted in an original “…”
“State of holiness and justice” or “Original holiness”
This state comprises of the inner harmony of the human person, harmony between man and woman, and harmony between the first couple and all creation
“Original justice”
The “mastery” over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realised above all within man himself:…
Mastery of self
Man is predestined to “…” the image of God’s son made man,
Reproduce