FAITH: A CHALLENGE AND RESPONSIBILITY (17) Flashcards
when the answer to God’s invitation is YES (assent), faith now becomes a __________
task (consent)
THREE DIMENSIONS OF FAITH
INFORMATIVE (head) / DOCTRINE (aral)
TRANSFORMATIVE (heart) / DEVOTION (dasal)
PERFORMATIVE (hand) / DEEDS (asal)
dimension of faith where faith should have data or information (“to know is to love”)
INFORMATIVE (head) / DOCTRINE (aral)
dimension of faith where faith can transform the way we live and also form us
TRANSFORMATIVE (heart) / DEVOTION (dasal)
dimension of faith where we must use faith to do good acts and acts of service
PERFORMATIVE (hand) / DEEDS (asal)
faith is not just an obligation, it is a _________
duty of love
5 MEANS TO MAKE FAITH GROW:
- prayer
- reading the sacred scriptures
- receiving instruction on the truths of faith
- practicing it in one’s words and life
- doing apostolate
an imitation of the apostles
APOSTOLATE
6 COMMON SINS AGAINST FAITH
ATHEISM AGNOSTICISM HERESY APOSTACY SCHISM SUPERSTITION
sin against faith that rejects the existence of God, founded often on a false conception of human autonomy
ATHEISM
sin against faith that affirms that nothing can be known about God, and involves indifferentism and practical atheism
AGNOSTICISM
sin against faith by the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith
HERESY
sin against faith that is an extreme form of heresy, and is the complete rejection of Christian belief after having accepted it freely
APOSTACY
people who follow apostasy
APOSTATE
sin against faith by the voluntary separation from the Church by stubborn disobedience to the hierarchy
SCHISM
sin against faith by a departure from the worship due to the true God and which also expresses itself in various forms of divination, magic, sorcery, and spiritism
SUPERSTITION
claims that have no basis and are outside of the doctrines of the Church
FOLK RELIGIOSITY
e.g. Buddha statues, witch doctors or Albularyos
FOLK RELIGIOSITY
4 ENEMIES OF FAITH
SECULARISM
MATERIALISM
THROWAWAY CULTURE
HEDONISM
enemy of faith by a concept of the world without any need for recourse to God, who thus becomes superfluous and an encumbrance
SECULARISM
enemy of faith that says that “God has no place in the public arena and is irrelevant except inside the Church”
SECULARISM
enemy of faith by the acquisition of worldly goods leading men to greed and to the unrelenting desire for more, to the pursuit of greater personal power
MATERIALISM
material possessions _______ from God
distract us
the term THROWAWAY CULTURE was coined by who
POPE FRANCIS
enemy of faith by discarding as waste unwanted items and unwanted people, such as the unborn, the elderly, and the poor
THROWAWAY CULTURE
enemy of faith that believes in the doctrine that pleasure is the goal of life and is man’s highest good
HEDONISM
enemy of faith that believes that actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constituted right, and conversely, what increases pain is wrong
HEDONISM
“Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (____________)
James 2:17
