FAITH: A CHALLENGE AND RESPONSIBILITY (17)

Question 1

when the answer to God’s invitation is YES (assent), faith now becomes a __________

Answer 1

task (consent)

Question 2

THREE DIMENSIONS OF FAITH

Answer 2

INFORMATIVE (head) / DOCTRINE (aral)
TRANSFORMATIVE (heart) / DEVOTION (dasal)
PERFORMATIVE (hand) / DEEDS (asal)

Question 3

dimension of faith where faith should have data or information (“to know is to love”)

Answer 3

INFORMATIVE (head) / DOCTRINE (aral)

Question 4

dimension of faith where faith can transform the way we live and also form us

Answer 4

TRANSFORMATIVE (heart) / DEVOTION (dasal)

Question 5

dimension of faith where we must use faith to do good acts and acts of service

Answer 5

PERFORMATIVE (hand) / DEEDS (asal)

Question 6

faith is not just an obligation, it is a _________

Answer 6

duty of love

Question 7

5 MEANS TO MAKE FAITH GROW:

Answer 7

• prayer
• reading the sacred scriptures
• receiving instruction on the truths of faith
• practicing it in one’s words and life
• doing apostolate

Question 8

an imitation of the apostles

Answer 8

APOSTOLATE

Question 9

6 COMMON SINS AGAINST FAITH

Answer 9

ATHEISM
AGNOSTICISM
HERESY
APOSTACY
SCHISM
SUPERSTITION

Question 10

sin against faith that rejects the existence of God, founded often on a false conception of human autonomy

Answer 10

ATHEISM

Question 11

sin against faith that affirms that nothing can be known about God, and involves indifferentism and practical atheism

Answer 11

AGNOSTICISM

Question 12

sin against faith by the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith

Answer 12

HERESY

Question 13

sin against faith that is an extreme form of heresy, and is the complete rejection of Christian belief after having accepted it freely

Answer 13

APOSTACY

Question 14

people who follow apostasy

Answer 14

APOSTATE

Question 15

sin against faith by the voluntary separation from the Church by stubborn disobedience to the hierarchy

Answer 15

SCHISM

Question 16

sin against faith by a departure from the worship due to the true God and which also expresses itself in various forms of divination, magic, sorcery, and spiritism

Answer 16

SUPERSTITION

Question 17

claims that have no basis and are outside of the doctrines of the Church

Answer 17

FOLK RELIGIOSITY

Question 18

e.g. Buddha statues, witch doctors or Albularyos

Answer 18

FOLK RELIGIOSITY

Question 19

4 ENEMIES OF FAITH

Answer 19

SECULARISM
MATERIALISM
THROWAWAY CULTURE
HEDONISM

Question 20

enemy of faith by a concept of the world without any need for recourse to God, who thus becomes superfluous and an encumbrance

Answer 20

SECULARISM

Question 21

enemy of faith that says that “God has no place in the public arena and is irrelevant except inside the Church”

Answer 21

SECULARISM

Question 22

enemy of faith by the acquisition of worldly goods leading men to greed and to the unrelenting desire for more, to the pursuit of greater personal power

Answer 22

MATERIALISM

Question 23

material possessions _______ from God

Answer 23

distract us

Question 24

the term THROWAWAY CULTURE was coined by who

Answer 24

POPE FRANCIS

Question 25

enemy of faith by discarding as waste unwanted items and unwanted people, such as the unborn, the elderly, and the poor

Answer 25

THROWAWAY CULTURE

Question 26

enemy of faith that believes in the doctrine that pleasure is the goal of life and is man’s highest good

Answer 26

HEDONISM

Question 27

enemy of faith that believes that actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constituted right, and conversely, what increases pain is wrong

Answer 27

HEDONISM

Question 28

“Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (____________)

Answer 28

James 2:17