Religion Chapter 4 Vocab/Study Guide Flashcards
Ark
A place of security or refuge
Herdsman
One who tends a herd
Ziggurat
A tower, similar in shape to a pyramid, built by the pagans to honor their gods
Consequence
Something that happens following an action or a decision
Conscience
A person’s inner awareness of the moral aspects of human actions
Conversion
Refers to a personal change from unbelief to belief
Faith
It can be considered as a God given theological virtue or habit of belief
Grace
Refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift
Hope
Refers to the theological virtue by which Christians desire and expect from God both eternal life and the means of grace necessary to attain it
Love
A synonym for the theological virtues of charity
Reconciliation
Refers to the process whereby a simple person returns to the grace of God and love a neighbor
Sin
Refers to an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience and thus against God
What was the only rule that God gave to Adam and Eve?
Don’t eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
Who committed the original sin?
Adam and Eve
What story tells how sin caused languages to divide nations?
Story of the Tower of Babel