Unit 1 Flashcards
What is our spiritual principle?
Our soul
Soul
- our spiritual principle
- immortal
- what makes us most like God
- created by God
- God unites is with our physical body at the moment of conception
- the seat of human consciousness and freedom
What makes us most like God?
Our soul
When is our soul united with our physical body?
At the moment of conception
What is the seat of human consciousness and freedom?
The soul
intellect
the divine gift thar gives us the ability to see and understand the order of things that God places within creation and to know and understand God through the created order.
free will
The gift from God that allows human beings to choose from among various actions, for which we are held accountable; the basis for moral responsibility
What is the basis for moral responsibility?
Free will
Beatitude
Our vocation as Christians, the goal of our existence. It is true blessedness or happiness that we experience partially here on Earth and perfectly in Heaven.
Our vocation as Christians, the goal of our existence. It is true blessedness or happiness that we experience partially here on Earth and perfectly in Heaven.
Beatitude
How many beatitudes are there?
8
Vocation
A call from God to all members of the Church to embrace a life of holiness. Specifically, it refers to a call to live the holy life as an ordained minister, as a vowed religious (sister or brother), in a Christian Marriage, or in single life
A call from God to all members of the Church to embrace a life of holiness. Specifically, it refers to a call to live the holy life as an ordained minister, as a vowed religious (sister or brother), in a Christian Marriage, or in single life
Vocation
When did Jesus teach the core of his New Law
In his Sermon on the Mount
What did the Sermon on the Mount start with?
Jesus proclaiming the Beatitudes
In the Sermon on the Mount, what does Jesus say his followers should be?
The salt of the earth and the light of the world
With whom did God make the Old Covenant?
The Israelites, his Chosen People
Where was the Old Covenant made?
Mount Sinai
What was the main part of the old covenant?
The Ten Commandments
Where were the Ten Commandments given to the Israelites
Mount Sinai
What did Jesus teach with the New Covenant?
The New Law, which fulfilled and completed the Old Law
Merit
God’s reward to those who love him and follow Christ’s Law of Love. To have merit is to be justified in the sight of God, free from sin and sanctified by his grace. We do not earn merit on our own; it is a free gift from God due to the grace of Christ in us.
God’s reward to those who love him and follow Christ’s Law of Love.
Merit
What gifts are we endowed with that allow us to be in true, loving communion with God, both now and for all eternity.
Our soul, our intellect, and our free will
In what book is I revealed that we were made in God’s image?
Genesis
what are the values of the beatitudes?
- poverty of spirit
- meekness
- mercifulness
- righteousness
- purity of heart
- peacemaking
- willingness to suffer for what is right
Our soul, our intellect, and our free will give us a special ____.
Dignity
Why make moral decisions?
Our primary goal in Christian morality is to collaborate with God’s grace. We should be good because that is how God made us; God has given us a share in his life and in his love; God has given us his grace to justify us and sanctify us so that we can live in perfect communion with him and all the saints for all eternity. We are free to choose between right and wrong, but not free to decide what is right and wrong. Moral truth is objective and based in God’s Eternal Law. Obeying moral law makes us more free; immoral behavior traps and imprisons us.
