Religion Unit 1

Question 1

Happiness

Answer 1

More than just a feeling, but about deeper desires being met

Question 2

Human being

Answer 2

One person with body (human DNA) and soul (potential to think, love, act freely, ect)

Question 3

Will

Answer 3

Ability to act and do things

Question 4

Reason

Answer 4

Ability to think logically

Question 5

Love

Question 6

Freedom

Answer 6

Ability to choose what is good

Question 7

Good

Answer 7

That which all things desire, that which is right

Question 8

Beauty

Answer 8

That which, upon being perceived, pleases

Question 9

Truth

Answer 9

What is. Authentic, in accordance with what is real

Question 10

Faith

Answer 10

Belief that all God has revealed through Sacred Scripture and Tradition is true

Question 11

Natural Revelation

Answer 11

The knowledge of God’s existence through human faculties (including reason)

“Our ability to recognize sin’s existence and be angry about it is actually a proof for God’s existence”

Question 12

Divine Revelation

Answer 12

The way God communicated to humankind through his words and actions over time,

most fully by his sending his divine son, Jesus Christ

Question 13

Sin

Answer 13

A willful word, thought, action, and/or inaction that goes against the law of God and His love for us

Question 14

Salvation History

Answer 14

God’s plan to save mankind from sin and lift the human family to the glory of Heaven

Question 15

Agnostic

Answer 15

When sin causes a person to say
(point of view) -
“Nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God”

Question 16

Atheist

Answer 16

When sin causes a person to…
(point of view) -
When sin causes people to disbelieve or lack belief in the existence of God

Question 17

Mystery

Answer 17

Something that cannot be discovered by our own senses AND cannot be fully known

Question 18

Trinity

Answer 18

The central mystery of the Christian faith; there are Three Divine Persons in one God:
Father
Son
And Holy Spirit

Question 19

Deposit of faith

Answer 19

Sacred Scripture and Tradition, handed on in the Church and guarded by the Magisterium

Question 20

Sacred Scripture

Answer 20

The written Word of God

Question 21

Sacred Tradition

Answer 21

The passing on of our faith in Christ through church with the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Question 22

Apostolic Succession

Answer 22

The handing on of preaching the authority from the Apostles to their successors, the bishops

Question 23

Magisterium

Answer 23

The teaching authority of the Church on matters of faith and morals made up of the pope and all bishops in communion with him

Question 24

Exegesis

Answer 24

Studying Scripture Passages in depth in order to learn more about God’s revelation

Question 25

Senses of Scripture - Literal

Answer 25

What the author intended to say within their historical context
(The literal sense is not necessarily an exact word-for-word reading)

Question 26

Senses of Scripture - Allegorical

Answer 26

Story that gives meaning to a bigger picture or deeper understanding about Christ
John 10:10-15

Question 27

Senses of Scripture - Moral

Answer 27

How to behave; right/wrong
Mark 12:13-17

Question 28

Senses of Scripture - Anagogical

Answer 28

Reference to our union with God, or Heaven bound
Matthew 13:47-50

Question 29

Image and likeness of God

Answer 29

Being a child of God. Humans resemble God through having an immortal soul, free will, reason, and the ability to love

Question 30

CS - Faith and reason connection

Answer 30

It is REASONABLE to have FAITH in God and forming a relationship with Him helps us have faith when we encounter difficult moments

Question 31

CS - Anger at sin as proof for God’s existence

Answer 31

We look at the world and see sin present

Our ability to recognize sin’s existence and be angry about is is actually a proof for God’s existence (Natural Revelation)

What are the different Affects of this CS
-Agnostic
-Atheist

Question 32

CS - Humans modeled after Trinity

Answer 32

Showed through Divine Revelation
- Humans are made by God to know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy forever with im and each other in the nex

• The way God designed humans to thrive is modeled after the Trinity

Question 33

CS - Using Senses of Scripture

Answer 33

In order to do proper exegesis we need to know this - in order to read SCripture in its fullest

There are two types
1. Literal and Spiritual

Question 34

Explain the Creation Story

Question 35

What are some ways of knowing God through Natural Revelation?

Answer 35

1. Desire for Happiness and Freedom
2. Human experiences of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Divine Attributes)
3. Uncaused Cause, Unmoved Mover, ect.

Question 36

What’s the difference between Divine revelation and Natural revelation?

Answer 36

Natural Revelation: We can know it by using our reason and observations in the world
Divine Revelation: We would never reason to it on our own. We can only know it because God actively shares it with us

Question 37

What does Divine Revelation tell us about human beings and happiness?

Answer 37

• Humans are made by God to know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy forever with him and each other in the next
• The way God designed humans to thrive is modeled after the Trinity

Question 38

Reading the Scripture is reading ____ _____

Answer 38

God’s Word

Question 39

Old Testament

Answer 39

-Recalls the history of God’s Chosen People, the Israelites
- Tell of God’s promise to send a Savior

Question 40

New Testament

Answer 40

Tells the story of God the Father’s saving action through His son and the Holy Sprit’s work through the early Church

Question 41

T/F - The Church has never added anything to Sacred Scripture

Answer 41

True

Question 42

T/F - The Sacred Tradition is a body of written literature that grows over time as times change

Answer 42

True

Question 43

The Church’s D.O.F consists of
1.
2.

Answer 43

1. Sacred Scripture
2. Sacred Tradition

(Both flow from the same source (God) and have the same goal (Human Salvation through Christ))

Question 44

What are the 3 subcategories of the spiritual sense of scripture?

Answer 44

Allegorical
Moral
Anagogical

Question 45

The first ___ chapters of ____ are known as the Creation Story

Answer 45

3 ; Genesis

Question 46

T/F The creation story if a scientific account of creation

Answer 46

FALSE - Genesis creation story is NOT a scientific account of Creation