Chapter 4 Study Guide Flashcards
The inner voice that helps each of us judge the morality of our own actions
Conscience
A deliberate thought, word, deed, or failure to act that offends God and hurts our relationships with other people.
Sin
A place of security or refuge; while traditionally thought as a boat, this can be a container that houses something of great importance
Ark
One who tends a herd, usually of cattle
Herdsman
Healing of the separation between self and God and self and others
Reconciliation
A tower, similar in shape to a pyramid, built by the pagans to honor their gods
Ziggurat
Something that happens following an action or a decision
Consequence
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
Conscience
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
Conversion
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
Faith
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
Grace
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
Hope
A synonym for the theological virtues of charity; a way of identifying the divine: God is _______
Love
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
Reconciliation
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.
Sin
What was the only rule that God gave Adam and Eve?
They were not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Who committed the original sin?
Adam and Eve
What story tells how sin caused languages to divide nations?
The story of the Tower of Babel
What did God promise to send the human race?
He promised to send a savior.
Who built the ark?
Noah
Who killed his brother?
Cain
What was Adam and Eve’s sin?
They disobeyed God and lied about it.
What was the sign of gods promise never to destroy the world?
Rainbow
Who is the new Eve whose child gave back to us?
Mary
What book of the bible contains the stories about the beginnings of sin in the world?
Genesis
Who is born with original sin?
Everyone, except Mary and Jesus
From what does all evil come?
Sin
Whom did Adam blame for his sin?
Eve
What is the gift of God’s life that Adam and Eve lost?
Sanctifying Grace
What are the 6 effects of sin?
Separation form God, unhappiness, destruction, conflict, suffering, and death.
What is the symbol of the water of the Sacrament of Baptism?
The flood
The human resistance to gods will?
Tower
Females and males share the same human dignity and are equal.
Creation of the woman from man’s rib
Shows the happiness that human beings had in the presence of God.
Beautiful Garden
Agrees with modern scientific study that human bodies are made out of the same elements as the rest of the universe
Creation of man from clay
Symbolizes a choice
Eating of the tree
Symbol of the church
Ark
Reminds us of just how attractive evil can be
Serpent of the tree
Symbolizes the friendship with God depends on complete trust in God and on the following his will for us
Warning of the fruit tree
Sign of God’s covenant with Noah and all humanity
Rainbow
4 levels on which the Cain and Abel story could be understood:
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
To symbolize God’s justice and his love and forgiveness, the biblical writer used the powerful symbol of _________.
Water
The story of Noah revealed a religious truth: God’s __________ and love, humanity’s ____, can overcome all ______.
Forgiveness, goodness, evil
Just as the world was washed and made by clean the flood, we are washed and clean in the ________ water.
Baptismal
The Tower of Babel symbolizes the ___ among different groups of people and humanity’s loss of ______ and the developed of different _______.
Separation,unity, language
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.
Original sin-personal, forgiveness, flood-Baptism
