Chapter 4 Study Guide

Question 0

The inner voice that helps each of us judge the morality of our own actions

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Conscience

Question 1

A deliberate thought, word, deed, or failure to act that offends God and hurts our relationships with other people.

Answer 1

Sin

Question 2

A place of security or refuge; while traditionally thought as a boat, this can be a container that houses something of great importance

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Ark

Question 3

One who tends a herd, usually of cattle

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Herdsman

Question 4

Healing of the separation between self and God and self and others

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Reconciliation

Question 5

A tower, similar in shape to a pyramid, built by the pagans to honor their gods

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Ziggurat

Question 6

Something that happens following an action or a decision

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Consequence

Question 7

A person’s inner awareness of the moral aspects of human actions; thus it is a person’s internal judgement of whether a specific action is right or wrong. Christians are bound to follow this- to do good and to avoid evil

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Conscience

Question 8

Refers to a personal change from unbelief to belief; as a turning point from a life of sin to a commitment to follow Christ, it is an essential aspect of Christianity

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Conversion

Question 9

Can be understood as a specific act or human response to revelation and also it can be considered as a God given theological virtue or habit of belief

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Faith

Question 10

Refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift or help that God gives to persons that they may respond to the divine call to salvation

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Grace

Question 11

Refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift or help that God gives to persons that they may respond to the divine call to salvation

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Hope

Question 12

A synonym for the theological virtues of charity; a way of identifying the divine: God is _______

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Love

Question 13

Refers to the process whereby a sinful person returns to the grace of God and love of neighbor. The sacrament of Penance reconciles a sinner with God and the Church

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Reconciliation

Question 14

Refers to an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience and thus against God. This is considered venial, and when it is less serious and mortal or capital, when it is a serious transgression of a person’s relationships with God and neighbor.

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Sin

Question 15

What was the only rule that God gave Adam and Eve?

Answer 15

They were not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Question 16

Who committed the original sin?

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Adam and Eve

Question 17

What story tells how sin caused languages to divide nations?

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The story of the Tower of Babel

Question 18

What did God promise to send the human race?

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He promised to send a savior.

Question 19

Who built the ark?

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Noah

Question 20

Who killed his brother?

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Cain

Question 21

What was Adam and Eve’s sin?

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They disobeyed God and lied about it.

Question 22

What was the sign of gods promise never to destroy the world?

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Rainbow

Question 23

Who is the new Eve whose child gave back to us?

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Mary

Question 24

What book of the bible contains the stories about the beginnings of sin in the world?

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Genesis

Question 25

Who is born with original sin?

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Everyone, except Mary and Jesus

Question 26

From what does all evil come?

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Sin

Question 27

Whom did Adam blame for his sin?

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Eve

Question 28

What is the gift of God’s life that Adam and Eve lost?

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Sanctifying Grace

Question 29

What are the 6 effects of sin?

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Separation form God, unhappiness, destruction, conflict, suffering, and death.

Question 30

What is the symbol of the water of the Sacrament of Baptism?

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The flood

Question 31

The human resistance to gods will?

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Tower

Question 32

Females and males share the same human dignity and are equal.

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Creation of the woman from man’s rib

Question 33

Shows the happiness that human beings had in the presence of God.

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Beautiful Garden

Question 34

Agrees with modern scientific study that human bodies are made out of the same elements as the rest of the universe

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Creation of man from clay

Question 35

Symbolizes a choice

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Eating of the tree

Question 36

Symbol of the church

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Ark

Question 37

Reminds us of just how attractive evil can be

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Serpent of the tree

Question 38

Symbolizes the friendship with God depends on complete trust in God and on the following his will for us

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Warning of the fruit tree

Question 39

Sign of God’s covenant with Noah and all humanity

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Rainbow

Question 40

4 levels on which the Cain and Abel story could be understood:

Answer 40

a. The sacredness of human life
b. The separation of human beings
c. Respect for others and for life
d. The healing power of God’s love

Question 41

To symbolize God’s justice and his love and forgiveness, the biblical writer used the powerful symbol of _________.

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Water

Question 42

The story of Noah revealed a religious truth: God’s __________ and love, humanity’s ____, can overcome all ______.

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Forgiveness, goodness, evil

Question 43

Just as the world was washed and made by clean the flood, we are washed and clean in the ________ water.

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Baptismal

Question 44

The Tower of Babel symbolizes the ___ among different groups of people and humanity’s loss of ______ and the developed of different _______.

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Separation,unity, language

Question 45

Through Baptism:

a. Freed from _______ and all __________ sins
b. God offers us _________ and love
c. Just as Noah and his family were brought to a new life through the _______, in the waters of ________ we are brought to a new life in Christ.

Answer 45

Original sin-personal, forgiveness, flood-Baptism