Mid Term Exam 2023 Flashcards
What does it mean to be made in the image and likeness of God?
- We have the ability to love
- We have intellect
- We have free will
What is an agreement between God and humans through one individual - it cannot be broken until death and blood was often used as a sign that it was formed?
A covenant
What teaches Christians about our story of salvation and what we need to do to go to Heaven?
The Bible
When was the marriage covenant created?
When God made Eve for Adam
What was the effect of original sin on the rest of mankind?
Concupiscence
God said to Adam and Eve, “Because you have done this, you will be cast out of the Garden of Eden and . . would affect all mankind.
- work will be hard and we will hate to work
- relationships will be difficult at times
- childbirth would be painful
- physical death
Why did God save Noah and his family and no one else?
Noah obeyed God
Why does God allow pain and suffering?
- To give us a reason to turn to Him for help
- It is unavoidable because we live in a broken world
- Sometimes our free will causes bad things to happen to us
Did the Protoevangelium proclaim that God will send a savior to redeem us from sin?
YES
Why is the great flood a TYPE for Baptism?
The flood washed away sinful people in the Old Testament and Baptism washes away original sin in the New Testament
Did Abram/Abraham have trouble believing in God’s promises because he and his wife Sarah were very old and had no children?
YES
What three things does God promise Abram in their covenant?
Land an a Nation
Kingship and a name
Blessing for all nations
Did God test Abraham’s faithfulness by asking Abraham to kill his son, Ishmael?
NO
What was the external and permanent sign that the Israelite men had to do to become part of the Covenant with Abraham?
Be circumcised
Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
Because the people wanted to rape God’s angels that were at Lot’s house
The people there were very wicked and lived immoral lives
According to God’s commands, should we wait for sexual intimacy until we are married - and only with our spouse?
YES
According the the Catholic Church being a homosexual is not a sin - but if a homosexual is sexually intimate with a person of the same sex, IS it a grave sin?
YES
What should every act of sexual intimacy have, according to God?
Fruitful - open to the possibility that life is created
Total - holding nothing back (especially fertility)
Free - both should want to take part
Faithful - between a married man and woman
Did Jacob love his son, Joseph, the best because he was born from his great love with Rachel?
YES
How many sons did Jacob have?
12
What were the name of the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah?
Jacob and Esau
Joseph eventually saves his family from starvation and forgives his brothers - How is Joseph a TYPE for Jesus?
Joseph physically saves his family by providing food during the famine - Jesus spiritually saves his family or us.
How do Jacob’s other sons, who are jealous of Joseph, get rid of him?
Sell him to some slave traders
Dopes Jacob wrestle with God and God tells him to change his name to Israel, because he is the father of “the 12 tribes of Israel?”
YES
Does Moses encounter the burning bush on Mt. Sinai?
NO
Why did God send the plagues?
To show His power over the false Egyptian gods
What happened with the 10th plague and Passover?
- The Israelites sacrificed a lamb and painted its blood on the doorposts
- The Angel of Death took the life of every first born Egyptian male
- They ate unleavened bread and the lamb
- Moses led the Israelites (and some Egyptians) out of Egypt
Where were the 10 Commandments kept as they traveled through the wilderness to the Promised Land?
Ark of the Covenant
Where did Moses receive the 10 Commandments?
Mt. Sinai
After several days of walking in the desert, did the Israelites start to run out of food - but then God provided manna and sparrows for them to eat every day?
NO
What does Moses see when he comes down from the mountain with the 10 commandments?
People engaging in immoral acts
People worshipping a statue of a calf made from their gold jewelry
Is Manna a TYPE for the Eucharist because it physically fed the Israelites in the Old Testament and the Eucharist spiritually feed us in the New Testament?
YES
Who recommitted to the covenant and became a Trible of priests?
The Levites
What book in the Old Testament is an instruction manual for the priests of the Israelite nation?
Leviticus
In what book of the Old Testament does the following occur: Moses sends 12 spies to Canaan to see what they’re up to against. Ten of them return saying that there are big, bad, scary people there. They decide not to enter the promised land.
Numbers
Were Jack and Jill the two spies who thought that with God’s help they could take the promised land from the Canaanites?
NO
Why did God allowed the Israelites to remain in the wilderness for 40 years?
They were too scared to enter the promised land
They did not trust in God
Which book of the Old Testament is called the “second law” because it was a second set of more specific, detailed list of things the Israelites should do or should not do?
Deuteronomy
Did Joshua take over and lead the Israelites into the Promised Land when Moses dies?
YES
What was the first city the Israelites attached in the promised land?
Jericho
Who di God send to help the Israelites when they really started to struggle in battle?
Judges
Were Ruth and Rahab two of the important women mentioned in the Old Testament because they are ancestors of King David and Jesus?
YES
Why did people or why did God change peoples names in the Bible?
To signify that they have a new purpose or missing
Is Noah’s ark a TYPE for the Church because the ark physically saved his family and the Church spiritually saves us by leading us to Salvation?
YES
In the first great battle - why did the walls fall down?
They did what God commanded so He blessed them
Did God destroy the Tower of Babel by raining down balls of fire that burned the city and all of its inhabitants?
NO
Who are Patriarchs?
Isaac
Jacob
Abraham
The 12 Tribes of Israel prospered in Egypt until a new pharaoh took over - what 2 terrible things the new pharaoh do to the Israelites?
Had the midwives kill all of the newborn baby BOYS
Enslaved the Israelites because he feared that they were getting too over populated
Why did a good God allow the 10th plague to kill all the first born males in each family?
In retribution for the Israelites babies that were kill by the previous pharaoh
What is a TYPE for when Moses parted the Red Sea - - because parting the Red Sea Physically save the Israelites from death and THIS spiritually saves us from eternal death>
Baptism
During the Passover, the Israelites had to kill a lamb and place the blood on the wooden doorposts as a sign of their faith and trust in the one, true God. What is this a TYPE for?
Jesus’ death on the cross
Is the book of Numbers called that because the Israelites took a census at the beginning of the writing of the book of numbers and then again when they were about to enter the Promised land - - the name really mean “in the wilderness?”
YES
What are three section of the book of Leviticus?
Priesthood
Purity
Rituals
What did the Jews call the first five books of the Bible?
Torah
What did the Catholic call the first five books of the Bible?
Pentateuch
Why is scandal wrong and hurtful to other?
It shows others that God’s commands are not important
It shows other to imitate wrong behaviors because they think it must be okay
It shows other that the wrong things to do (according to God)_ are actually okay to do
What is the one thing that the Israelites don’t have but they want like all the other nations?
A King
