Chapter 4 Study Guide Flashcards

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The inner voice that helps each of us judge the morality of our own actions

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Conscience

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A deliberate thought, word, deed, or failure to act that offends God and hurts our relationships with other people.

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Sin

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A place of security or refuge; while traditionally thought as a boat, this can be a container that houses something of great importance

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Ark

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3
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One who tends a herd, usually of cattle

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Herdsman

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4
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Healing of the separation between self and God and self and others

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Reconciliation

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A tower, similar in shape to a pyramid, built by the pagans to honor their gods

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Ziggurat

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Something that happens following an action or a decision

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Consequence

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A person’s inner awareness of the moral aspects of human actions; thus it is a person’s internal judgement of whether a specific action is right or wrong. Christians are bound to follow this- to do good and to avoid evil

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Conscience

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Refers to a personal change from unbelief to belief; as a turning point from a life of sin to a commitment to follow Christ, it is an essential aspect of Christianity

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Conversion

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Can be understood as a specific act or human response to revelation and also it can be considered as a God given theological virtue or habit of belief

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Faith

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Refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift or help that God gives to persons that they may respond to the divine call to salvation

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Grace

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Refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift or help that God gives to persons that they may respond to the divine call to salvation

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Hope

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12
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A synonym for the theological virtues of charity; a way of identifying the divine: God is _______

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Love

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13
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Refers to the process whereby a sinful person returns to the grace of God and love of neighbor. The sacrament of Penance reconciles a sinner with God and the Church

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Reconciliation

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Refers to an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience and thus against God. This is considered venial, and when it is less serious and mortal or capital, when it is a serious transgression of a person’s relationships with God and neighbor.

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Sin

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15
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What was the only rule that God gave Adam and Eve?

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They were not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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16
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Who committed the original sin?

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Adam and Eve

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17
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What story tells how sin caused languages to divide nations?

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The story of the Tower of Babel

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18
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What did God promise to send the human race?

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He promised to send a savior.

19
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Who built the ark?

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Noah

20
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Who killed his brother?

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Cain

21
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What was Adam and Eve’s sin?

A

They disobeyed God and lied about it.

22
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What was the sign of gods promise never to destroy the world?

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Rainbow

23
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Who is the new Eve whose child gave back to us?

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Mary

24
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What book of the bible contains the stories about the beginnings of sin in the world?

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Genesis

25
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Who is born with original sin?

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Everyone, except Mary and Jesus

26
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From what does all evil come?

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Sin

27
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Whom did Adam blame for his sin?

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Eve

28
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What is the gift of God’s life that Adam and Eve lost?

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Sanctifying Grace

29
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What are the 6 effects of sin?

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Separation form God, unhappiness, destruction, conflict, suffering, and death.

30
Q

What is the symbol of the water of the Sacrament of Baptism?

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The flood

31
Q

The human resistance to gods will?

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Tower

32
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Females and males share the same human dignity and are equal.

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Creation of the woman from man’s rib

33
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Shows the happiness that human beings had in the presence of God.

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Beautiful Garden

34
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Agrees with modern scientific study that human bodies are made out of the same elements as the rest of the universe

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Creation of man from clay

35
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Symbolizes a choice

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Eating of the tree

36
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Symbol of the church

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Ark

37
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Reminds us of just how attractive evil can be

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Serpent of the tree

38
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Symbolizes the friendship with God depends on complete trust in God and on the following his will for us

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Warning of the fruit tree

39
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Sign of God’s covenant with Noah and all humanity

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Rainbow

40
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4 levels on which the Cain and Abel story could be understood:

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a. The sacredness of human life
b. The separation of human beings
c. Respect for others and for life
d. The healing power of God’s love

41
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To symbolize God’s justice and his love and forgiveness, the biblical writer used the powerful symbol of _________.

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Water

42
Q

The story of Noah revealed a religious truth: God’s __________ and love, humanity’s ____, can overcome all ______.

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Forgiveness, goodness, evil

43
Q

Just as the world was washed and made by clean the flood, we are washed and clean in the ________ water.

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Baptismal

44
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The Tower of Babel symbolizes the ___ among different groups of people and humanity’s loss of ______ and the developed of different _______.

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Separation,unity, language

45
Q

Through Baptism:

a. Freed from _______ and all __________ sins
b. God offers us _________ and love
c. Just as Noah and his family were brought to a new life through the _______, in the waters of ________ we are brought to a new life in Christ.

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Original sin-personal, forgiveness, flood-Baptism