6th - Religion Chapter 4 revised

Question 0

God created all __________ ___________.

Answer 0

Things good

Question 1

The writers of Genesis use stories to tell us about ______________ and ________________.

Answer 1

Sin and God’s faithful love and mercy

Question 2

What does the story of Adam and Eve explain?

Answer 2

How sin came into the world

Question 3

God created Adam and Eve __________________.

Answer 3

In his image

Question 4

What gift did God give Adam and Eve?

Answer 4

The gifts of intellect and free will.

Question 5

What did God ask of Adam and Eve?

Answer 5

To obey him.

Question 6

What would Adam and Eve come to know by trusting God’s plan for them?

Answer 6

They would know true happiness.

Question 7

By their own free choice, Adam and Eve disobeyed God. What was the result?

Answer 7

They broke Faith with God and brought sin into the world and lost God’s life in them: the gift of sanctifying grace.

Question 8

Because of this sin, human beings are born without grace and with a tendency to sin. What is this condition called?

Answer 8

Original Sin

Question 9

How is grace restored?

Answer 9

Through Baptism

Question 10

In the second story of creation, Genesis 2:4–3:24, what do we learn?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Who told Eve that if they ate from this tree they would have great knowledge and be like Gods?

Answer 11

The serpent

Question 12

When Adam and Eve ate it, what happened?

Answer 12

At that moment, they had knowledge of their sin.

Question 13

When Adam and Eve heard God calling them after they had eaten the fruit, what happened?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

God sent Adam and Eve away from the garden but he promised them what?

Answer 14

That someday he would send someone to overcome sin and restore life. The savior would be Jesus.

Question 15

Why did God crest us?

Answer 15

Because He wanted to share his life and love with us.

Question 16

When we love for happiness in the wrong places and turn away from God’s love, what are we doing?

Answer 16

Sinning

Question 17

Where do many problems in the world today come from?

Answer 17

The evil of sin

Question 18

What is the message of Genesis?

Answer 18

That people sin AND that God’s love is faithful and total.

Question 19

When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised to send a savior to redeem us and unite us with God. Who was that savior?

Answer 19

His only Son, Jesus.

Question 20

What do the stories of (1) Two Brothers, (2) the Flood, and (3) the Tower of Babel illustrate?

Answer 20

How sin weakens and stereos relationships with God and others.

Question 21

Briefly describe the story of the Two Brothers.

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

What was Cain’s reply to God’s question as to where is your brother Abel?

Answer 22

I don’t know, am I my brother’s keeper?

Question 23

Briefly describe the The Flood Story.

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Why did God create the Flood?

Answer 24

God was displeased with his people’s wickedness - how common sin had become.

Question 25

What was the covenant between God and Noah?

Answer 25

God promised (Noah and every living creature) never to destroy the world by flood again.

Question 26

What was the special sign of this everlasting covenant between God and Noah?

Answer 26

Rainbow

Question 27

What is a ziggurats?

Answer 27

Towers that people built to honor their gods.

Question 28

Was the flood story the end of sin?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Briefly describe the Story of the Tower of Babel.

Answer 29

The people decided to build a tower for a different reason -themselves, not their God. The people at the time all spoke the same language. But because they had forgotten Him, God confused their language and the could no longer understand each other and could not complete the tower.

Question 30

What was he result of the people forgetting God and building the tower for themselves?

Answer 30

The people could no longer live together and they moved to various parts of the earth. Sin had divided them.

Question 31

Does God abandon people when they sin?

Answer 31

No, he constantly offers them ways to return to him.

Question 32

What is the result of sin?

Answer 32

Every sin separates us from God and our neighbors.

Question 33

Every effort to turn from sin helps heal this separation. What is the return to God and our neighbors called?

Answer 33

Reconciliation

Question 34

We have been shown the way to return to the Father through whom?

Answer 34

Jesus, whose name means “God saves.”

Question 35

God placed desire for happiness within each one of us. In seeking happiness, what do we do sometimes?

Answer 35

We choose to do things that are against the law of God. We choose sin.

Question 36

We can avoid sin and make good moral choices with the help of whom?

Answer 36

The Holy Spirit

Question 37

When making a moral choice, we need to consider what three things?

Answer 37

1. What we have chosen to do
2. The intention behind our choice
3. The circumstances surrounding the act

Question 38

What does the Church do to help us to make good moral choices?

Answer 38

Help us develop our conscience

Question 39

Name some examples of how we can develop our conscience.

Answer 39

1. Learning from our mistakes and from the mistakes of others
2. By praying for guidance
3. Reading and listening to Scripture
4. Learning about the teachings of the Church

Question 40

Her son would be the savior of the human race?

Answer 40

Mary

Question 41

Offered the best of his flock to God?

Answer 41

Abel

Question 42

Good person who was saved in the worldwide flood?

Answer 42

Noah

Question 43

Killed his brother?

Answer 43

Cain

Question 44

Blamed his sin on his wife?

Answer 44

Adam

Question 45

First mother of the human race?

Answer 45

Eve

Question 46

Tried to build a tower in order to be famous?

Answer 46

People of Babel

Question 47

What is the source of evil?

Answer 47

Sin

Question 48

What are two effects of sin?

Answer 48

Conflict and separation

Question 49

Cain and Abel were what?

Answer 49

Brothers

Question 50

What was the sign of God’s promise to Noah?

Answer 50

A rainbow

Question 51

Who created the world?

Answer 51

God

Question 52

What was built in Babel to show power and pride?

Answer 52

Tower

Question 53

What is God’s response to sinners?

Answer 53

Mercy

Question 54

Reconciliation is the return to a __________ and __________ relationship with God and ______________ after it has been ______________ or destroyed by sin.

Answer 54

Happy and Holy; neighbors; weakened