Lesson 2 Flashcards
A personal act
Faith
The free response of the human person to the initiative of God who reveals himself
Faith
True or False: I cannot believe without being carried by the faith of others, and by my faith I help support others in the faith.
True
True or False: Faith is an isolated act
False
Our _________ impels us to speak to others about our faith
Love for Jesus and for our neighbor
the faith of the church professed personally by each believer, principally during baptism
“I believe” (Apostles’ Creed)
The faith of the Church confessed by the bishops assembled in council or more generally by the liturgical assembly of believers
“We Believe” (Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed)
True or False: “I believe” is also the Church, our mother, responding to God by faith as she teaches us to say both “I believe” and “We believe.”
True
An ecclesial act
Believing
The mother of all believers
The Church
True or False: we believe all “that which is contained in the word of God, written or handed down, and which the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed”
true
True or False: Faith is necessary for salvation
True
True or False: St Augustine said that “Faith is a foretaste of the knowledge that will make us blessed in the life to come”
False, it was St Thomas Aquinas who said it
What is the two-fold reference of “to believe”
To the person and to the truth
True or False: Whoever says “I believe,” says “I pledge myself to what we believe.”
true
Such syntheses (Summarization of what the Church believed) are called ________, since they summarize the faith that Christians possess
Profession of Faith
The Summarization of faith that Christians profess are also called as _____ on account of what is usually their first word in Latin: ______(“I believe”)
Creed, Credo
Another term used for the “profession of faith” and “creed”
symbols of Faith
The Greek word “________” meant half of a broken object
Symbolon
Symbolon also means a _________
Gathering, collection, or summary
A summary of the principal truths of the faith and therefore serves as the first and fundamental point of reference for catechesis
symbol of faith
The First profession of faith is made during ________
Baptism
The symbol of faith is first and foremost the ________
baptismal creed
The Creed is divided into three parts which are: (This is also known as the three chapters of our baptismal seal)
The first part; Speaks of the first divine person and the wonderful work of creation
Second part: Second divine person and the mystery of his redemption
Final part: speaks of the third divine person, the origin and source of sanctification
According to the comparison often used by the Fathers, we call the parts of Creed as _______
Articles
The name _______ has justly and rightly been given to the truths we must believe particularly and distinctly
article
In accordance with an ancient tradition, already attested to by ___________, it is also customary to reckon the articles of the creed as _____________
St Ambrose, twelve
The __________ or ________ draws its great authority from the fact that it stems from the first two ecumenical councils
The Niceno-Constantinopolitan, Nicene Creed
The ___________ is so called because it is rightly considered to be the faithful summary of the apostle’s faith
The Apostles’ creed
God the father that __________
Creates
True or false: God creates through simple acts of the divine word, the son, in the power of the Holy spirit
True
True or False: Full of Love and glory, everything just sprouted out of existence
True
True or False: the genesis contradicts scientific theory
False
Toho
Formlessness
Boho
Emptiness
Day of resting and worship
Sabbath day
What did God create on the first day
light and dark
What did God create on the second day
water and sky
What did God create on the third day
Land and sea
What did God create on the fourth day
Sun and Moon
What did God create on the fifth day
fish and birds
What did God create on the sixth day
animals and people
Who is the top of all creations
Humanity
Center and crown of God’s creation
humanity
True or False; Did God also create invisible things
True (Visible and invisible things)
Why did God make humans last?
It shows us that God created the world for us
Described the gifts possessed by Adam and Eve before the fall of man by the original sin
Preternatural gifts
A fraction of the preternatural gifts remain as the _________, a corruption of preternatural gifts
Third eye
Summit of creation
Man
The most dignified creation in God’s eye
Man, even compared to aliens as God chose to become human
God our father as a ___________. As a father, god provides for our needs
Provider
It is God’s continuing sustenance and care for everything
Divine providence
True or False: Prayer is powerful enough to completely change our circumstances
False, prayers cannot change one’s circumstances but is supposed to change our personhood
God the father as a _________ God redeemed us through Jesus Christ
Redeemer
How is God continuously redeeming us today?
Through sacraments
God the father as ________. Emmanuel means God is with us
Emmanuel
Meaning of Emmanuel
God is with us
God the father as our _______, you are God’s precious child
identity
God the father as our ________. Often described best through the parable of the prodigal son
Destiny
The other reckless person in the parable of the prodigal son and why?
The father, since he recklessly forgave the son (often represents God and is connected with God the redeemer)
God the _______. God is universal, loving, and a mystery
Almighty
True or False: God the father’s power is universal
True
Meaning of Pantokrator
“Creator and ruler of all things”
Father almighty’s power is the recreation of personal energy of non-violent love
Loving
God is a ________ yet proclaiming God as Father almighty does not blind the Christian to all the evil of the world
Mystery
