Key Concepts Flashcards
What is sin?
Acting against the will or laws of God.
What is absolutism?
The belief that there are certain actions that are always right or always wrong.
The belief that moral laws exist eternally and are not just human inventions.
What is relativism?
The belief that there is no moral law.
Rules that govern what is right and wrong are human inventions and change from place to place and from age to age.
What is salvation?
The belief that through Jesus’ death and resurrection humanity has achieved the possibility of life forever with God.
What is punishment?
The consequences of a wrong decision.
A penalty imposed by a person in authority on the person who has committed wrongdoing.
What is forgiveness?
The act of pardoning someone for the offences they have caused you.
Overlooking a person’s faults.
What is evangelism?
Literally means spreading the ‘good news’ which we translate as Gospel.
The sharing of the Gospel and life of Jesus with others.
What is the Eucharist?
Meaning ‘thanksgiving’.
The name Catholics use to describe the rite where the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus and is received by the people.
Also the name for the real presence of Jesus in the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
