Unit 4 - Incarnation ✔️ (paper 1)

Question 1

What does incarnate mean?

Answer 1

Being made flesh

Question 2

What are the catholic teachings on the incarnation?

Answer 2

-God took on the full limitations of the human conditions

-jesus went threw the whole human cycle

-God loves the human race so much he was prepared to share in it to the fullest extent

Question 3

Significance of God taking on human conditions?

Answer 3

When God took on human conditions and became Jesus he went through the whole human cycle and expirenced human emotions and therefore can emphathise with the human race

Question 4

How does God show he loves the human race?

Answer 4

Prepared to share it in the fullest extent - helps christians value Gods love

Jesus - “i will be with you always until the end of age”

Question 5

What is grace?

Answer 5

Gods love freely available to all people poured into peoples hearts and brings people closer to God

Question 6

What is a sacrement?

Answer 6

Sacrement - a moment of grace when God pours his love into us - “an outward sign of an inward grace”

Question 7

What is the annuciation?

Answer 7

When the angle Gabriel asked mary to accept the role of the mother of the Son of God

Question 8

Quote that shows God took on human conditions?

Answer 8

“word became flesh and lived among us”

Question 9

What is the Ichthus symbol?

Answer 9

symbol used by early christians translates to “jesus christ son of God saviour”

Question 10

Why are some christians against depicting God with art?

Answer 10

-God is infinite - not possible to depict with finite means like art

-second commandment states “do not worship false idols”

-statues can give wrong ideas of god and are misleading he is not human

Question 11

why is using art to depict the incarnation acceptable?

Answer 11

-God has taken on a limited human form therefore we can depict him in this form

-we do not know what jesus looked like however we know he was a man with human qualities

-art can help Christians focus on spiritual ideas and aspects of Gods work

Question 12

Sacred heart features

Answer 12

-Jesus dressed in kingly robes and sometimes wearing a crown

-hand pointing to heart

-Expression of peace and love

Question 13

Significance of the crucifix?

Answer 13

reminder of the pain jesus suffered sometimes emphasised with his dead body shows his self giving love jesus has for all people

Question 14

What was the sermon on the mount?

Answer 14

Jesus is the new lawgiver - building upon moses laws - starts the sermon(talk) telling people to change their attituded this part is known as the beatitudes

Question 15

What are the beatitudes?

Answer 15

List of eight attitudes which jesus blesses in Gods eyes - example -“ blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”

Question 16

Quote from jesus about the sermon on the mount?

Answer 16

“I have not come to abollish the laws but to fulfil it”

Question 17

Example of three of jesus’s moral teachings from the sermon on the mount?

Answer 17

-even looking at someone lustfully is wrong

-do not even get angry at someone or insult them

-do not take revenge

Question 18

Three examples of moses teachings which were later changed/fullfiled by jesus

Answer 18

-do not commit adultery

-do not commit murder

-an eye for an eye

Question 19

Christians beliefs about jesus’ moral laws?

Answer 19

Christians believe jesus took the old laws and made them more perfect

Question 20

What is Gods will?

Answer 20

The things that God wants people to do

Question 21

What does jesus’ parable of the sheep and goats mean?

Answer 21

Jesus tells his followers that they must care for people who are in need - anyone who ignores the needs of other people will suffer “eternal punishment”

Question 22

What is tradition?

Answer 22

Tradition that which has been passed down over time

Question 23

What was st Irenaeugs teaching?

Answer 23

Aimed to show that the incarnation brings God and human closer to God and jesus is also the meeting point between a transcendent God and us humans on earth

“Jesus is the glory of God ,a human who is fully alive”

Question 24

3 teachings from st Irenaeus?

Answer 24

-humans can get to know God threw Jesus seen threw the quote in the bible “he is the image of the invisible god”

-jesus is the perfect human and sets an example of how we should act

-‘jesus is the glory of God a human who is fully alive’

Question 25

Quotes that show jesus is fully God and human?

Answer 25

“The word made flesh”

“The son himself is the word”

Question 26

What is apostolic exhortation?

Answer 26

A letter or document from the pope encouraging catholics in their religion

Question 27

What is the divine life?

Answer 27

The shared love of the father and the son in the holy spirit

Question 28

3 examples of the sacrmanets?

Answer 28

-Baptims
-eucharist
-marriage

Question 29

When do catholics believe human life starts?

Answer 29

At the moment of conception - from that moment the whole person is present

Question 30

Define imago dei?

Answer 30

The image of God the latin term used to how that God made humans in his image

Question 31

Why should abortion be allowed in the church?

Answer 31

-if the mother is in mental/physical harm

-should be a womens own decision - gd gave us free will

-the quality of the childs life (might be severly disabled)

Question 32

Catholic churchs teachings on abortion?

Answer 32

-murder breaks the commandment “tho shall not commit murder”

-sancity of life - all life is sacred

-the life begins at the moment of conception and that the person is fully present

Question 33

Three statues that show the incarnation?

Answer 33

-christ the redeemer

-crucifix

-sacred heart

Question 34

What were jesus’ moral teachings?

Answer 34

During the sermon on the mount jesus gives us a set of rules and values to apply to life

Question 35

What is an issue with focusing to much with jesus being human?

Answer 35

There could be a tendency to slip into the hersey (belief) that jesus was not really God but just a good person but in reality he was God in ‘disguise’

Question 36

Significance of marys child (john) leaping in her womb when she was greated by mary?

Answer 36

Christians believe it was because Jesus was trully present in his mothers womb from the moment of conception and therefore john sensed the holy spirit

Question 37

Mother teresa quote on abortion?

Answer 37

“If we can accept a mother can kill even her own child how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”