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Question 1

What is a covenant?

Answer 1

a covenant is an agreement between God and humans

Question 2

What was the covenant between God and Adam & Eve?

Answer 2

God created Adam and made him master of all His creations. God also created Eve in his likeness.

Question 3

What did God do after Adam & Eve broke their covenant?

Answer 3

God punished them by removing them from the Garden of Eden but did not completely destroy the covenant. God prepared a way to take away the sins of humans through His son, Jesus.

Question 4

What does prefigure mean?

Answer 4

Prefigure means to foreshadow or show an early indication of a future event.

Question 5

How does Abel’s offering prefigure Christ?

Answer 5

Abel sacrificed a lamb to God as a sign of love. Jesus is the Lamb of God because he sacrificed Himself as a sign of love for us.

Question 6

How does Abel’s offering prefigure the Eucharist?

Answer 6

Abel’s sacrificial offerings are symbolic of the Eucharist because it is Jesus’ sacrificial offerings for us.

Question 7

What is the covenant between God and Noah?

Answer 7

God promised that there would never be another flood that destroys the earth. God told Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply.

Question 8

How is the covenant with Noah a continuation of the covenant with Adam?

Answer 8

God originally gave Adam dominion over all His creations but Adam committed original sin and humans were doomed to death. The Great Flood destroyed the sinful world and established a new beginning. Noah’s covenant with God was similar to the covenant with Adam.

Question 9

Who was Melchizedek?

Answer 9

Melchizedek was a king and high priest during the time of Abram (Abraham).

Question 10

What did Melchizedek do when he met Abram (Abraham)?

Answer 10

Melchizedek offered him bread and wine, and then gave him a blessing.

Question 11

What was the significance of Melchizedek’s actions?

Answer 11

Melchizedek did not offer a bloody sacrifice but gave bread and wine. His actions fit the pattern of a Eucharistic celebration: worshippers give their offerings, and Jesus works through the priest to give His Body and Blood.

Question 12

What was God’s covenant with the Israelites?

Answer 12

God promised the Israelites that if they obeyed His commandments, then they would be His kingdom.

Question 13

What did Moses feed the Israelites after leaving Egypt?

Answer 13

The Israelites were fed by God (through Moses’ instructions) with Manna from heaven.

Question 14

How does Moses prefigure Jesus in the Last Supper?

Answer 14

In the Last Supper, Jesus feeds His apostles with bread that is His own Body and win that is His own Blood. These actions follow the same pattern like Moses feeding his people with Manna from heaven.

Question 15

What happened on Pentecost?

Answer 15

On Pentecost, the apostles were in hiding and the Holy Spirit descended on them.

Question 16

What effects did the Holy Spirit have on the apostles?

Answer 16

The Holy Spirit relieved the fears of the apostles and they became bold preachers of their Christian faith.

Question 17

Describe the difference in Peter’s demeanor and actions between his denial of Jesus and his mission in Jerusalem.

Answer 17

On the night Jesus was captured, Peter was scared and demonstrated a lack of faith. In the early Christian community, Peter was the leader of the apostles and fulfilled his role as rock upon which Jesus builds His Church.

Question 18

Describe the early Christian community that Peter led.

Answer 18

The early community under Peter’s leadership was a community of faith. Furthermore, members of the community lived in collaboration with one another. There was no distinction between rich and poor. Everyone contributed to the community and each member received good according to his or her need.

Question 19

Who were Saul and Paul?

Answer 19

Saul and Paul were the same person. Saul was a person who persecuted Christians. After Jesus appeared to him, Saul became a believer in the Christian faith. He changed his name to Paul and spent his time as a missionary and leader of Christian communities.