Good conduct and key moral principles - Quotes

Question 1

Importance of good conduct

Answer 1

‘We are here on earth in order to… go someday to heaven’
- Youcat

Question 2

Justification by faith

Answer 2

‘Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness’
- Genesis

‘righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe’
- Romans

Question 3

Justification by works

Answer 3

‘faith without deeds is dead’
- James

Question 4

Predestination

Answer 4

‘all are not created on equal terms’

‘some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation’

• Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Catholic Church rejects Calvin’s teaching:
‘God predestines no one to go to hell’
- CCC

Question 5

Sanctity of Life

Answer 5

‘Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from…conception’
- CCC

Question 6

Stewardship

Answer 6

‘God saw all that he had made, and it was very good’
- Genesis

Question 7

Dominion

Answer 7

‘You made them rulers over the works of your hands’
- Psalms

‘Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you’
- Genesis

Question 8

Pope Francis

Answer 8

our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the earth does not justify absolute domination over other creatures
- Laudato Si