part 2 Flashcards
● —– is the first act of God’s revelation
Creation
■ First way of knowing God
is through the created world.
General revelation
● He did not need any previously existing materials or help from anyone: this shows his omnipotence and his wisdom
EX NIHILO
In our journey, we also involve others in our journey
true or false
true
● God created the world out of nothing
EX NIHILO
God created the world out of love
EX AMORE
means in state of journeying
In statu viae
God Created this Contingent World out of Nothing. More than this cosmological insight, we are Creatio ex Amore. We are created out of love, and that love is sufficient reason for God to create us in His own image.
EX NIHILO
love with action
charity
God has no other reason for creating than his love and goodness; this love is natural to God
ex amore
Everything that God created is in the state
of journeying toward an ultimate
perfection yet to be attained
In statu viae
○ When God created the universe,
He’s out of it
○ Some admit that the world was
made by God, but as by a watchmaker who, once he has made a watch, abandons it to itself
Deism
You do not have the capability and the determination but God will still provide you with everything you need
true or false
You have the capability, the determination, which is why God provides you with everything you need
false
○ God is the universe, the universe is
God
○ Everything is God, that the world is
God, or that the development of the world is the development of God
Pantheism
God does not exist
○ Total rejection of the existence of God. Even Catholics can become atheists in the sense of praxis. You believe in God, you profess your beliefs in Him, but you practically think and do something evil right after you go to the mass
Atheism
○ Everything is scientific
○ Others reject any transcendent origin for the world, but see it as merely the interplay of matter that has always existed (ex: evolutionism and big bang theory
Materialism
First book in the Jewish and Christian scriptures
genesis
○ Material body = product of evil ○ According to some of these
conceptions, the world (at least the physical world) is evil, the product of a fall, and is thus to be rejected or left behind.
Gnosticism
Evil needs to exist for goodness to exist
Others have said that the world is a necessary emanation arising from God and returning to him. Still others have affirmed the existence of two eternal principles, Good and Evil, lightness and darkness, locked in permanent conflict.
dualism
God separated the sea and sky
day 2
t or f
Genesis uses the literary form of religious MYTH to speak about reality
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God separated light and darkness
day 1
God separated waters and sand
day 3
God created plants
day 4
God created animals
day 5
God created man and and woman
day 6
The human being is both body and soil
true or false
true
—- is the original locale of human being
Eden
When God created human, there is a harmony between human and animals
t or f
f
When God created human, there is a harmony between human and LAND
Man and woman complement each other. Man has greater dignity than woman
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equal dignity
: material composition of the person. It is corruptible
Body
: principle of vivification. It is immortal.
Soul
The lowest rank in the hierarchy is the ——- soul, which is responsible for nutrition and growth and is also found in plants and other animals.
vegetative
● Nutrition and growth
● Plants and other animals
● Responsible for nutrition and growth, and
which is also found in plants and other animals
vegetative
the ——- soul, which is responsible for perception, imagination, and movement, and so is present in other animals too, but not in plants. This sort of soul lacks reason but, unlike the vegetative, can be influenced by it.
appetitive
● Perception, imagination, and movement ● Lacks reason, but can be influenced by it ● Responsible for perception, imagination,
and movement, and so is present in other animals too, but not in plants. This sort of soul lacks reason but unlike the vegetative, can be influenced by it.
appetitive
order of elements of soul
vegetative
appetitive
rational
● Only the human person who possesses the rational capacity to make himself free
Further divided into the scientific element, which enables us to contemplate or engage in theoretical activity, and the calucalitve or deliberative element, which enables us to engage in practical or political activity.
3 - RATIONAL
It is only the human person who possesses the rational capacity that makes him/her free.
true or false
true
God created Humankind in his image, in the image of God her created them; male and female he created them.
imago dei
Man cannot live without love.
true or false
true
Makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary
freedom
● The power rooted in reason and will
freedom
is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude… —— makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, knowledge of the good, and ascesis enhance the mastery of the will over its acts
freedom
The human person has a duty to do what God commands. That command is rooted out of his love and never out of coercion.
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He offers to us the Good in the world, but we can still choose to reject His offer of benevolence and love.
true or false
true
Refers to their office, mission, and
responsibilities and means that
they are messengers
● “Angelos” (messenger)
The fall of man happened before the fall of angels. Everything God created is good.
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The fall of angels happened before the fall of man. Everything God created is good.
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“The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and life forever”
the fall of man
——– is not literally a place but it means pleasure, delight, and original justice.
The garden of Eden
○ the inner harmony of the human
person, the harmony between man and woman, and finally the harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the state called ———-
ORIGINAL JUSTICE
Adam and Eve could talk to God face to
face.
t or f
true
○ sharing of the human person to
the divine life.
ORIGINAL HOLINESS
PRETERNATURAL GIFTS 4
integrity
immortality
impassibility
infused knowledge
- perfect control of the passions to reason; subjection of the body to the
soul.
There is a perfect order, reason comes first
Integrity
- non subjection to the painful separation of the body and soul in death.
Immortality
- immunity form all suffering and misery
a. They have emotions, work is given to them and they find this enjoyable because of impassibility
Impassibility
mans first sins (2)
● Self-idolatry
● Self-deification
- understanding the natural sciences without effort
a. Example is diba us when we have exams we do all nighters and sometimes we still forget, for Adam and eve it was easy for them and could do it without effort.
Infused knowledge
2 sins of angels
pride and envy
○ In that sin man preferred himself to God and by that very act scorned him. He chose himself over and against God, against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good.
Self-idolatry
○ Constituted in a state of holiness,
man was destined to be fully “divinized” by God in glory. Seduced by the devil, he wanted to “be like God”, but “without God, before God, and nothing in accordance with God”
Self-deification
original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam’s descendants. It is a deprivation or original holiness and justice
true or false
true
human nature has not been totally corrupted; it is wounded in the ‘natural powers proper to it; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the dominion of death; inclined to sin
true or false
true
As a result of the original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the domination of death; and inclined to sin. This inclination is called ——-.
concupiscence
● This type of sin arises from the free and deliberate choice of an individual to do what is morally evil in the sight of God. This is when a man chooses to voluntarily and willfully disobey the law of God revealed to us
PERSONAL SIN
TWO TYPES OF PERSONAL SINS ○
Venial
Mortal
● Sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it (1855).
● We can forget it because we do not know its wrong
VENIAL SIN
is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent (1862).
VENIAL SIN
● Heavier because it needs three conditions:
○ Grave matter
○ full knowledge of the evil of the act ○ Complete consent
MORTAL SIN
three conditions of MORTAL SIN
○ Grave matter
○ full knowledge of the evil of the act ○ Complete consent
A grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the diving life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be presented.
mortal sin
