religion test Flashcards
natural law
• Eternal law as it applies to man and it is correctly recognized by man through our reason.
scrupulus concience
• One that judges actions as sinful but in reality are not
rule of thumb for sin
• If an action draws you away from Christ of the church then it is sinful
lax concience
• Makes light of its responsibilities to know the correctness of actions
devine positive law
• A law given to us by divine revelation
amoral concience
• One that is totally depraved and has lost all awareness of sin.
material sin
• Unknowingly breaking God’s law and you are only responsible for the sin if you should have known.
delicate concience
• One that habitually judges the sinfulness of an action
acts of man
actions men don’t actively think about
eternal law
came into being when man did
temptation
• The incitement of evil proposed to our wills.
o Motive to reach good in a sinful way.
o Is not a sin itself.
law
• That which regulates the actions of a person or a thing.
o Must be reasonable.
o Must be aimed at the common good.
o Must be issued and enforced by a rightful authority
concience
• Judgment pronounced by the intellect over the sinfulness or goodness of an action.
2 occasions of sin
• Remote
o A situation that generally wont cause you to sin but it could.
• Proximate
o Circumstance that generally leads to sin.
4 conditions for double effect
- Action itself must be good or morally neutral.
- Good effect must be directly intended not the bad one.
- Good effect must not be produced by the bad effect.
- Good must be proportionate to the bad.
