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Fall Final Exam Flashcards

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How do we use these approaches in the Creation Story?

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We have to understand that God did not create the Earth in six days, bit we need to take the religious truths seriously

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Caltholics vs. some Protestants on Scripture

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Some Protestants believe that the Bible is 100% historically and religiously correct. As Catholics, we believe that the Bible is not 100% historically accurate, but 100% religiously true

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Historical truths in the Creation Story?

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God created in six days, that he created women by using a man’s rib, and so on

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Religious truths in the Creation storyn

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That everything he created was good and that the world is made specifically for human beings

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The Church’s job and science’s job?

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Church answers the who and why. Science answers the how

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Why does or mean by literary form of the Bible and how we should approach different readings?

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The presumed beliefs at the time of the author, and we must keep this in mind to discover the the sacred author’s intention

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How beliefs impacted how an author wrote

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They reflected their assumptions and examples presented in the text

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Class examples on How context impacted how some Gospel stories were told

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Go to Moodle and study those

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What does it mean to have dominion over creation?

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It is our job to take care of it

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How does stewardship relate to the 7th commandment?

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If we use creation for our own purposes, that means we are not giving the opportunity to posses that specific part of creation

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Adam and Eve before the Fall

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They enjoyed a profound and loving relationship with God. They had preternatural virtues (including no sickness, suffering, or death) and his supernatural grace

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What happens in Genesis 3:1-6?

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The serpent tempts them by saying that they will not die by eating the apple and their eyes would be open, as they would know good and evil

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Description of Satan?

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Nahash, in reference to powerfully evil creatures

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What is the Catechism description of the Fall?

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They call the fall “a witness to the disastrous influence of the Devil. It was a mendacious seduction that les man to disobey God.”

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Catechism description of disobedience?

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Man preferred himself to God and that very act scorned him. His action was against the requirements of God and therefore, against his own good

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Immediate consequences of Adam and Eve?

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Lost their original holiness, justice, and friendship with God, and kicked out of the Garden of Eden

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Consequences for the fall

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We could no longer love God as a close friend, a chasm was created and it cannot be crossed through human effort alone. Our intellect became clouded and incapable of discerning God laws, and man and women experience suffering and burdens

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What is the Protoevangelium?

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Formed using the combination of the Greek words first and good news. This first message of Good News is found in Genesis 3:15 where the promise of a redeemer is mentioned

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What is the origin of Cain’s sin?

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The sin of disobedience created Original Sin, which is transferred to every human being

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What is the Tower of Babel Story?

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It is an example of human pride and inordinate confidence in human power

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Tower of Babel- parallel to the Fall?

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It caused a disunity among the people, as they now spoke different languages

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How does the Tower of Babel link to unity and the Pentecost?

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At Pentecost, the gifts of the Holy Spirit overcame the divisions of language caused by Babel. Through the Pascal Ministry, the human race is restored according to God’s plan. Everyone can now enjoy the supreme blessing of God’s divine life and speak the same language of Christ’s charity

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What is the definition of a literal sense?

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What the author intended to express, the most immediate and direct meaning of the text

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What is the spiritual sense?

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The Holy Spirit puts more meaning into a passage than even the scad author recognized

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What is the allegorical/ typical sense?

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When a certain character or event foreshadows a future character or event

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What is the moral/tropological sense?

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Interprets the heroes of the scripture as models for life

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What is the analogical sense?

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When certain parts of Scripture elucidates towards heaven

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What is the meaning and application of Elohim

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Strong one. It evokes majesty, and it’s plurality hints at the three person trinity. It denotes God’s sovereignty, creative actions, and mighty works for Israel

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What is the context and meaning of Yahweh?

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Is the name revealed by God to Moses I am who I am. This name stresses God as self-existent and independent.

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Adonai is

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Plural for majesty. This names stresses God’s relationship to man as master and provider

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Meaning of Theos

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It stresses God is the only one true God. He is unique transcendent, and the Savior. Also used to describe Christ

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Kyrios is the Greek for

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Lord. It stresses authority and supremacy

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Adam Mountaintop?

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Eden

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Noah Mountaintop

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Mount Ararat

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Abrahamic Mountaintop

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Mount Moriah

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Mosaic Mountaintop

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Mount Sinai

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Davidic Mountaintop

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Mount Zion

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Covenant Group Adam

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Adam and Eve

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Covenant Group noah

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Noah and his family

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Abrahamic covenant group

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The tribe

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Covenant groups

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Widen as they progress

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Covenant Group Moses

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The nation

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Davidic Covenant Group

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Kingdom

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Covenant Temple for Adam

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The universe

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The temple for Noah

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An altar

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Temple for Abraham

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Builds an altar

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Temple for Moses

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Builds the Temple/Ark of the Covenant and an altar

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Temple for David

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Initiates the temple. God will make a temple of David’s line

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What does a priest do

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He helps us connect with God, often via sacrifice or worship

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Adam Priest

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In charge of the temple of creation

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Noah Priest

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He offered a sacrifice after exiting the ark

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Abraham Priest

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Offers sacrifices

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Moses Priest

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Sprinkling of blood on the altar and on the people

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David Priest

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Did other priestly functions and sacrifices

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What does a prophet do?

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Communicates God’s message

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Adam Prophet

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Names the animals

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Noah Prophet

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Tells his family God’s commands

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Abraham Prophet

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Tells his tribe God’s commands

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Moses Prophet

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Brings the Israelites the Law

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David Prophet

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Some Psalms contain prophecies

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What is a king?

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Exercises leadership on God’s behalf

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Adam King

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In charge of creation

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Noah King

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In charge of the new creation

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Abraham King

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Will be the father of many nations, kings will come from his lime

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King Moses

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Leader of Israel

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David King

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He was king

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Adam Involves divine filiation son of God

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Let us make God in our own image

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Noah Son of God

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The new Adam

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Abraham Son of God

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ABE = Jesus called him, “you father Abraham”

= James called him “the friend of God”

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Moses Son of God

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Israel the first born son

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David Son of God

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D = called “a man after his (God’s) own heart”

= his seed will be “son of God”

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Conditions of the Covenant Adam

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Be fruitful and multiply and do not eat of the tree

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Noah Conditions

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N = largely unconditional
= Do not kill (related command)
= “Be fruitful and multiply” (related command)

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Abraham conditions

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ABE = largely unconditional
= God as your only god (implicit)
= all your males will be circumcised (more of a sign)

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Conditions Moses

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Obey my Commandments

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David Conditions

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D = largely unconditional

= doing wrong will be met with correction

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Covenant Promises Adam

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I will put enmity between you (the serpent) and the woman and between your offspring and hers. He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”

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Noah Promises

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“Never again will I doom the earth because of man…nor will I ever again strike down all living beings”

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Abraham Promises

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ABE = “I will multiply your seed as the stars in heaven and the sand which is on the seashore”
= “you will become father of a host of nations”
= “kings shall stem from you”
“by your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed”

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Moses Promises

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M = “I will take you as my own people”
= “I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob”
= “I will give it to you (the land) as your own possession.”

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David Promises

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D = name shall be great (like to Abraham)
= “son of God” from his line
= an eternal kingdom

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Covenant Sign Adam

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The Sabbath

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Covenant Sign Noah

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Rainbow

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Covenant Sign Abraham

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Circumcision

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Covenant Sign Moses

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The sabbath

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Covenant Sign David

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The Temple

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Possible statement about breaking the covenant

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This idea of curses that went with covenants

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Significance of Flaming Torch

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Fire a symbol of God’s presence

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Possible significance of torch’s movement

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God is descending to personally take part in the covenant ceremony

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God’s promise to Abraham about Sarah and reason for disbelief

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That he would become the patriarch of a mighty nation, they were too old

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Isaac’s question and Abraham’s response

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Where was the sacrificial lamb? God will provide himself the lamb of a burnt offering

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Substitute sacrifice and possible significance

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A ram, prefigured the Passion and Death of Christ

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Importance of being willing to shed blood

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It is the type of blood shed by Christ to establish the new Covenant. Blood is the life source and being willing to shed it shows dedication

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Circumcision in the ancient world

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Relationship with God. You looked different

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Watch the circumcision video

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Now

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Covenants and increasing family intimacy?

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God’ covenants make us family, with each one calling us to a greater intimacy with Him

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The Ten Commandments and family?

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God is giving us the rules to guide our families

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Significance of Moses sprinkling blood in altar and people

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Showed that Israel and God are in the same family, as they share the same blood

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Story of David’s decision to build a temple

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David wanted to build a temple. You make me a house. Ill make you a house

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Our Lady of Guadeloupe

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Read story on Moodle

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Mary as a reversal to Eve

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She brought gave birth to the seed that would squash the head of the serpent

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Use of woman at Cana?

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It heartens back to the Protoevangelium , where the serpent would be defeated by the seed of the women

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Description of heresy that moves the Church to give Mary the title Mother of God

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That God would never be born of a woman, that Jesus became God after birth. It shows that Jesus was God at conception

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Use of mother on the Cross

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Mary is the mother of the World

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What is Perpetual Virginity?

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Always a virgin. Reasoning for the sacrifice if virginity was for God to have a unique role as the father of Jesus

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Debate about brothers of Jesus

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They were actually his close male relatives because the Aramaic language didn’t distinguish between the two

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Description of Immaculate Conception

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Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin. The reasoning was the enablement of her to cooperate fully to God’s plan

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Description of Assumption

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Assumed body and soul into heaven. A way of saying thank you

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Origin of the first line of the Hail Mary

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Connection to Gabriel during the Annunciation

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Origin of the second line of the Hail Mary

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In her visit to Elizabeth

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The Hail Mart and Mary as advocate

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Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of Our Death

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What Gabriel said about the name of the child and why?

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Jesus, expresses both his identity snd his mission. In hebrew, Jesus means God saves. Gabe says that he will be great, He will be the savior of the world

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Mary’s response and connection to us

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Yes and it serves as a model for every disciple of Christ. Through the general acceptance of divine will, a person allows God to fulfill his plans for salvation through him or her

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Poverty in the Nativity Story

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Jesus was born poor. This emphasizes a detachment for worldly possessions, as this is necessary to have a deep relationship with God.

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Perception of shepherds in Jewish soceity

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The poorest of the poor

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Jewish theology of the Presentation

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A woman who had given birth was declared unclean and she needed to go to the Temple to offer a sacrifice for her purification. Every first born male belonged to God by virtue of the Passover. They needed to go to the Temple to redeem the child

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What Simeon said about Jesus

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Immediately recognized him as the Savior through the power of the Holy Spirit

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Presentation connection to Crucifixion

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This offering which was initiated in the Temple reached its fulfillment on the Cross. Simeon told Mary that the child is a sign of contradiction and her soul would always be pierced.

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Description Ofm the Finding in the Temple

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Jesus got lost. This was not unusual because the children would often would go visit the men and women. They get worried and how is that you sought me. Did you know I must be in my father’s house

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Four reasons God entered human history

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To make expiation for sins, reconcile man with God, and restore human history lost by sin. To manifest the infinite depth of God’s love, to offer a model of holiness, to allow people to share in his divine life

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Theory on why God entered human history when he did

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One Theory: Mankind was ready for the fullness of God’s revelation
-this theory compares human development over the centuries to a child growing into adulthood

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Comparison to children growing into adulthoodm

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  • this theory sees a person’s childhood like the human race in an earlier stage of development
    • How are we usually taught right from wrong as a younger child?
  • rewards/punishment, do’s and don’t’s
    • the Mosaic covenant had these elements and helped us as we progressed
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Different expectations

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This theory further states that mankind eventually “grew up” as a species and was ready for the fullness of God’s revelation
-just like your parents ask more of you as a teenager than they did when you were a child, God was now asking more of humanity

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How we are taught right and wrong

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  • How are we usually taught right from wrong as an adolescent?
    • teaching you WHY to choose/avoid certain actions
    • get you to consider how your actions affect others
    • get you to consider different consequences, like long-term, indirect, etc.
  • This is like Jesus coming and perfecting the Law, building upon Mosaic Law, by giving us the Beatitudes and the New Commandment (“Love one another as I have loved you.”)
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Connection to Jesus

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Why the incarnation

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Possible reason for the transfiguration

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In order to inspire his Apostles’ confidence in his Passion and Death and to show us a foretaste of his glory

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Symbolism of Mose and Elijah?

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Moses the Law and Elijah the prophets

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The Transfiguration reveals what awaits every follower of Christ

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The hopeful prospect of a transformation in Christ and his share in his Resurrection

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How crucifixion worked

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A slow death by asphyxiation

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