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Nature:
what something is
person;
who someone is
2 greatest mysteries of the Faith:
God & Jesus
Trinity:
mystery of the inner life of God
Incarnation:
God becoming man
Trinity in words:
divine person
Hypostatic Union:
union of 2 natures in 1 person
Who is Jesus:
Eternal word; 2nd person of the trinity
what is jesus:
true God & true man
Trinity of persons in Godś intellect:
power to think, know, understand, & contemplate
Will:
love, desire, and choose –> power to do these things
when we are made in the image and likeness of God:
we have a spiritual soul w/ intellect and will
how do we know we are made in the likeness:
By knowing and loving him
Human Faith:
the thing that can be known through human reason.
Divine Faith:
things that transcend this world and can’t be known through human reason.
Believed through the credibility of who reveals it.
Divine Faith (4)
Faith is free- gift from God
Faith is a human act- involves our intellect and will
Faith is certain-can neither be deceived nor deceive
Faith is the beginning of eternal life- begins on earth and w/ faith and practiced charity –> heaven
3 truths of ch.1 of Genesis
1) Godś creation
2)Shows how each thing is created and is related to God
3) how his creation is good
Adam and Eve;
created in grace (original justice)
Proto-evangelium
means good news (there will be a savior)
¨Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.¨
St. Thomas Aquinas definition of faith
Jesus:
god saves
Anointed:
English
Messiah:
Hebrew
Christ:
Greek
Who was anointed in the OT:
Priests
Prophets
Kings
The 3 thrings are implied in the word Christ:
The one who anonits - The father
The one who is anointed- Jesus
The one who is the anointing itself- Holy Spirit
The motives of the incarnation:
1) in order to save us
2) So that we may know God’s love
3) to our model of holiness
4) to make us partakers of the divine nature
