TOB Flashcards
Human person
God created us with both body and a soul. We are the only creatures God made in his image and likeness made to love and be loved.
Incarnation
Refers to the reality the Jesus who is fully God became man God the Son became mas so He could die and rise , saving humanity from the destruction caused by sin so that we can really become sons and daughters of Hod possessing divine life
Saint
A saint is someone who has lived a holy life practiced virtue to a heroic degree and chose to love God above all things
Theology of the body
On Wednesday from 1979 to 1984 pope John Paul 2 gave talks about how the body reveals that human persons are created in the image of God as male and female with freedom for loving relationships
In his image and likeness
The trinity is three persons united in one God who gave themselves to each other in perfect love. We are meant to do the same so them we are in loving relationship we understand more about God
In the beginning
The garden of eden is named as the place where God created Adam and eve because we know God does not make errors the way he created us in the beginning is the way humans were designed to live
Free will
God created us with the ability to choose this ability is necessary in order to be able to love God wanted us to love him and each other so e gave us free will
Original sin
Original sin is the loss of the four relationships and a wound to our humanity. Original sin hurts our ability to know what is right choose what is good and to love it causes us to suffer and even die and it makes us prone to commit sin even when we try not
