6th - Religion Chapter 6 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Early in his life, Abram traveled from Ur in Chaldea to where to settle as a shepherd?
Harlan
What is a supernatural gift of God that helps people to believe in him?
Faith
When Abram was 75 years old, God called him to make a distance journey to where?
Canaan
Abram did not fully understand God’s words but he knew what?
He knew in his heart that he must obey them at once.
During his journey to Canaan, Abram also began something else, what was this?
Abram began a spiritual journey - that would lead him to a deeper and clearer faith in the one true God.
Abram trusted God but he did not understand how all of God’s promises could happen. What was Abram’s problem?
What good will God’s gifts be since You have given me no offspring.
What was God’s response to Abram’s problem?
Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can, just so shall be your descendants be.
God was pleased by Abram’s faith, so he made a very solemn agreement called what with Abram?
God made a covenant with Abram.
What was the covenant with Abram?
- Changed his name to Abraham
- The father of many nations
- Give you and your descendants the whole land of Canaan
- Changed his wife’s name to Sarah
- Will bless her and give you a son who you will name Isaac
Who is the first patriarch, or father and ruler, of the Chosen People?
Abraham
What does Abraham mean?
Father of many nations
What were Abraham’s and Sarah’s name change signs of?
That they were beginning a new way of life.
We like Abraham are called to do what?
Accept our responsibility to care for and protect others
When we place our trust in God as Abraham did we are living what which calls us to believe in God, to hope in him and to love him above all else?
The First Commandment
What is a gift given freely by God which we can accept or reject?
Faith
What was the covenant made with us when we were baptized?
- God promises to give us eternal life if we believe in him and live according to these beliefs
- We promise to renounce Satin, to believe in God and to live as Catholic Christians
What is baptism the beginning of?
Our journey of faith
What was Abraham ready to do for God?
Anything
What is sacred and must be treated with dignity?
All human life
What does God want us to sacrifice?
He wants us to sacrifice our wills - rather than a sacrifice of a human.
How do we sacrifice our wills?
- By saying no to things that would harm us and other people
- By saying yes to loving actions
