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Question 0

What are three understandings of what the KOG is?

Answer 0

1. It has a particular effect on the listener-demands a response in faith.
2. if the KOG is at hand, I need to do something about it.
3. clearly a key component of the gospel - mentioned 112 times in the NT, 90 times by Jesus.

Question 1

What is the core content of the Gospel?

Answer 1

The KOG demands faith, we need to do something about the KOG, and it is key because it is mentioned so many times I the NT.

Question 2

Give at least one reason why didn’t the KOG Jesus preached fit Jewish expectations?

Answer 2

they expected the coming messiah, they were looking for the restoration of a geographical kingdom. This would include prosperity, earthly peace, justice of defeat of enemies.

Question 3

Jesus’s kingdom has no boundaries, therefore there are no foreign conquerors. Who is the enemy of the KOG then?

Answer 3

Satan

Question 4

One misconception about the KOG is that Jesus was leading a revolution against the Judaism of his time. How does this not agree with what we know about Christ in scripture?

Answer 4

The gospel in no way depicts Jesus as anti-ritual or anti-Jewish religion. At the last supper, Jesus and his disciples are obediently engaging in Jewish faith and Jewish ritual.

Question 5

Another misconception about the KOG is that Jesus was just a nice and moral teacher. How does that not agree with what we know about Christ in scripture?

Answer 5

His ministry and life revolved around the ritual Jewish activity. He taught in the synagogues and temple, he celebrated great feast, and often clarified the true meaning of rituals. Though he did often come in conflict with Jewish officials.

Question 6

A final misconception grows out of a desire for “inclusion.” It understands that because Jesus is divisive, the KOG is not about Jesus but God as anyone understands God. But even God is divisive so what Jesus really came to establish was an earthy kingdom of peace. How does this not agree with what we know about Christ in scripture?

Answer 6

Because Jesus is divisive, and because only Christians have Christ, there is a short from thinking about the kingdom brought be Christ, to a kingdom rooted in God.

Question 7

Why does Jesus always and only do miracles?

Answer 7

Jesus always does miracles so as to hilight his teaching on the KOG, or to lead people to further understand the KOG.

Question 8

In Jesus’s parables what value does Jesus put above every other value?

Answer 8

Accepting the Kingdom

Question 9

The third Luminous Mystery reveals that the KOG is where?

Answer 9

The KOG is present in anyone who puts their faith in God.

In Jesus

Question 10

Who is an example of an OT type of Christ?

Answer 10

Elijah, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, etc.

Question 11

When Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John start talking about baptism, with whom do they always begin the conversation?

Answer 11

John the Baptist

Question 12

In the Gospel of John, when Jesus heals the blind man it teaches us that if we wash in the waters of baptism, what will happen?1

Answer 12

We can see Him more clearly

Question 13

At the second Vatican council the church tried to articulate what baptism really is and what it really means. What threefold answer did they come up with?

Answer 13

Initiation, commissioning, dicipleship

Question 14

Explain how Jesus’s baptism connects to our own.

Answer 14

Jesus' baptism -
Points to the cross -
Lamb of god -
Exodus -
Vicarious atonement -
Freedom - 
our baptism

Question 15

Describe poverty of heart.

Answer 15

It is necessary for us to be truly in communion with God, and people with poverty of heart recognize their need for God.

Question 16

What two things did the disobedience of our first parents bring into the world?

Answer 16

1. Sin

2. Death

Question 17

In the parable of the lost coin, what does the value of the coin tell us about the KOG?

Answer 17

Jesus cares enough for us that he will search for us.

Question 18

In the parable of the sheep and the goats, Jesus communicates what we do to others, either good or bad, effects what?

Answer 18

Our relationship with Jesus

Question 19

In the parable of the sower and the seeds, what do the seeds represent?

Answer 19

The seeds are the word, and what happens to the seeds is how we interpret the word.

Question 20

What is an exorcism?

Answer 20

The act of freeing someone from demonic possession.

Question 21

What is our “ultimate end”?

Answer 21

Sharing in the life of the blessed Trinity

Question 22

What does Abba mean?

Answer 22

God / father (our first priority)

Question 23

Jesus invites us to fast as an act of what?

Answer 23

Genuine repentance

Question 24

How is the Lord's prayer unique in all of scripture?

Answer 24

It's the only prayer given by God himself.

Question 25

What are we asking God to make holy in making his name Holy?//

Answer 25

Make it holy by how you act and what you say you do.

Question 26

When will we be forgiven?

Answer 26

When we forgive others who have sinned against us.

Question 27

Forgiveness bears witness to the world that love - love that comes from God - is stronger than what?

Answer 27

Forgiveness is stronger than sin.

Question 28

In regard to the Our Father Prayer, what is sin?

Answer 28

1. When you give into temptation | 2. Discernment to recognize sin and not participate in it.

Question 29

In the Gospel of John, Jesus teaches Nicodemous that no one can enter the KOG without doing what?

Answer 29

Being born of water and the spirit.

Question 30

In what two ways does Jesus show us how to live as humans?

Answer 30

1. Humans are born with original sin | 2. All humans have the ability to enter heaven

Question 31

In what ways does Jesus heal?

Answer 31

1. Physically 2. Spiritually 3. By forgiving sins

Question 32

What allows us to pursue "Truths of a higher order"?

Answer 32

Through the power of the Holy Spirit and using our intellectual abilities. ultimately wisdom leads to God.

Question 33

Conscience

Answer 33

A persons God-given internal sense of what is morally right or wrong. To make good judgements, a person needs to have a well formed conscience.

Question 34

Why doesn't God force us to act in a certain way?

Answer 34

He wants us to have free-will. We can CHOOSE to love him, he won't force it.

Question 35

Why is this false: "Because Jesus was God, he was not free to choose whether to follow through with what God the father wanted of him"

Answer 35

False, because Jesus could have chosen not to follow God, he even asked God to take away his suffering. Instead he was obedient and continued to follow God.

Question 36

What are the scriptural principles for

Answer 36

1. Each individual has worth 2. Doing god's will is high priority 3. We should deny ourselves as we sacrifice for others 4. Love everyone, even your enemies.

Question 37

What is a consistent life ethic and to whom does it apply?

Answer 37

K

Question 38

Why is life a sacred gift?

Answer 38

O

Question 39

When does life begin?

Answer 39

K

Question 40

Why does the church oppose abortion?

Answer 40

J

Question 41

Euthanasia

Answer 41

K