Key concepts

Question 1

Incarnation

Answer 1

-“made flesh”
-the christian belief that God became fully human and fully divine thrugh the form of Jesus

Question 2

Natural Law

Answer 2

-the moral laws of right and wrong which are universal and not dependant on human laws
-the beief in natural law is that the moral law is discovarable by very human being and is the same for all of humanity

Question 3

Conscience

Answer 3

-human reason makng moral descions
-the knowledge we have of what is right and wrong and the God given compulsion within all human beings to do what is right and to avoid evil

Question 4

Free will

Answer 4

-the descion making part of a persons mind is called wil
-a will is free if a person is able to choose from wrong without being controlled by other forces

Question 5

Goodness

Answer 5

-the quality of being God like
-seeking the will of being others selflessly

Question 6

Privation

Answer 6

-the loss or absence of a quality or something normally present
-evil is a privation of good

Question 7

suffering

Answer 7

-pain or loss which harms human beings
-some suffering is caused by other humans (moral evil) whle some is caused not (natural evil)

Question 8

Evil

Answer 8

-the absence of good and the impulse to seek our own desires
-this is at the expense of the good of others which often results in suffering