6th - Religion Chapter 4 revised Flashcards
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God created all __________ ___________.
Things good
The writers of Genesis use stories to tell us about ______________ and ________________.
Sin and God’s faithful love and mercy
What does the story of Adam and Eve explain?
How sin came into the world
God created Adam and Eve __________________.
In his image
What gift did God give Adam and Eve?
The gifts of intellect and free will.
What did God ask of Adam and Eve?
To obey him.
What would Adam and Eve come to know by trusting God’s plan for them?
They would know true happiness.
By their own free choice, Adam and Eve disobeyed God. What was the result?
They broke Faith with God and brought sin into the world and lost God’s life in them: the gift of sanctifying grace.
Because of this sin, human beings are born without grace and with a tendency to sin. What is this condition called?
Original Sin
How is grace restored?
Through Baptism
In the second story of creation, Genesis 2:4–3:24, what do we learn?
That when Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden, Paradise, God had given them one rule. They were not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If they did, they would die.
Who told Eve that if they ate from this tree they would have great knowledge and be like Gods?
The serpent
When Adam and Eve ate it, what happened?
At that moment, they had knowledge of their sin.
When Adam and Eve heard God calling them after they had eaten the fruit, what happened?
They tried to hide from Him. But God knew they had disobeyed and he questioned them but Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.
God sent Adam and Eve away from the garden but he promised them what?
That someday he would send someone to overcome sin and restore life. The savior would be Jesus.
Why did God crest us?
Because He wanted to share his life and love with us.
When we love for happiness in the wrong places and turn away from God’s love, what are we doing?
Sinning
Where do many problems in the world today come from?
The evil of sin
What is the message of Genesis?
That people sin AND that God’s love is faithful and total.
When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised to send a savior to redeem us and unite us with God. Who was that savior?
His only Son, Jesus.
What do the stories of (1) Two Brothers, (2) the Flood, and (3) the Tower of Babel illustrate?
How sin weakens and stereos relationships with God and others.
Briefly describe the story of the Two Brothers.
The sons of Adam and Eve - Cain, a farmer, and Abel, a herder, both brought offerings to God from their labored. God accepted Abel’s but not Cain’s. Rather than asking why, Cain turned on his brother Abel killing him. God punished Cain by sending him away to wander the world as an outcast. But God still showed mercy, protecting Cain in a special way.
What was Cain’s reply to God’s question as to where is your brother Abel?
I don’t know, am I my brother’s keeper?
Briefly describe the The Flood Story.
God told Noah, who had remained faithful to him, to build a special boat, an ark. He was to take his family and one pair of every kind of animal. When he was done, the rain began and soon the whole earth was covered in water. Everything but what was on the ark was destroyed. When it stopped and dry land appeared, Noah offered sacrifices to God. Then God made a covenant with Noah.
