Life of Christ 1 Flashcards
The Son of God ought to have assumed human nature in all individuals.
False - The correct answer is false. The question is taken from the Summa by St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas answers this question: “The incarnate Son of God is the common Saviour of all, not by a generic or specific community, such as is attributed to the nature separated from the individuals, but by a community of cause, whereby the incarnate Son of God is the universal cause of human salvation.” Thus, it was fitting that our Lord should become man to save all men. He did not need to become man and die for each person individually. His salvific death paid the price for all mankind.
The Son of God assumed a human nature for our salvation by becoming a man.
True - The correct answer is true. By, the authority of Felix, Pope and Martyr, which is quoted by the Council of Ephesus: “We believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, because He is the Eternal Son and Word of God, and not a man assumed by God, in such sort that there is another besides Him. For the Son of God did not assume a man, so that there be another besides Him.” The question asks that our Lord assumed a human nature and was born as a man. This is true. He did so and still remaining God even after becoming man.
Jesus Christ is both a human Person and a divine Person.
False - The correct answer is false. Jesus Christ is one single person. He is the second Person in the Trinity. But He is only one person. He is not two persons; He is one divine person with two natures.
Jesus was always
True - The correct answer is true. Jesus Christ was always God. While He became a man at the Incarnation, He was always God and existed as God for all eternity. He only became a man at a point in time. That doesn not change the fact that the second Person of the Trinity, Our Lord Jesus Christ, existed as God without beginning or without end.
Jesus was always man.
False - The correct answer is false. Jesus Christ, while always God, became a man at one specific point in time. This point in time is the Incarnation when the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived Him in her womb by the power of the Holy Ghost. Before that point, Jesus Christ did not have a human nature and therefore was not man. Though He did always exist as God without beginning. He will however, exist now for all eternity with a human nature since He did take on our humanity. He was not always a man, but He will for all time going forward have a true human nature along with His divine nature.
The Annunciation by the Angel Gabriel declared the Incarnation to Mary.
True - The correct answer is true. It was the Archangel St. Gabriel who announced the Incarnation to Mary who conceived our Lord after she affirmed “Let it be done unto me.”
All Catholics are bound to believe in the Incarnation, Redemption, and the Annunciation.
True - The correct answer is true. It is essential that a Catholic believe in every single dogmatic teaching of the Faith. To reject one teaching is to reject the Catholic Faith. The Catholic Faith requires a catholicity (meaning a universality of belief). We are Catholics because we all belief the same universal truths. The doctrines of the Incarnation, Redemption, and Annunciation are some of the most important doctrines that make up the body of doctrine we must believe in order to be a Catholic. They are essential to our Faith.
