Origins and Meanings 1 Flashcards

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Inspiration

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  • “God breathed”

- The belief that the Holy Spirit guides people to write what is good and true

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Revelation

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  • How God makes himself known to human beings

- Christians believe that God does this fully through Jesus

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Omnipotence

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  • The belief that God is powerful
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Transcendence

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  • Existing outside of space and time

- God exist above and beyond creation

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Creation ex nihilo

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  • Creation of nothing

- Only God can create out of nothing

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What is the Bible?

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  • Seen as library
  • Written over 1500 years
  • Means ‘collection of books’
  • The holy book and is seen as Word of God
  • About creation of the world and history of the people of God
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How many books does the Old Testament have?

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39 books

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How many books does the New Testament have?

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27 books

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Who are the authors the New Testament?

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Matthew, Mark , Luke and John

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Whom inspired and influenced the Bible writers and therefore what does it mean?

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The Holy Spirit and therefore Catholics believe that the Bible contains God’s revelation (uncovering)

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What does God use the Bible for?

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To communicate himself and his will to human beings

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What do Catholics believe about the history of the Bible?

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That certain events were interpreted and passed on verbally from person to person before written down by humans

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What is the Torah?

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  • First five books of the Tenekh
  • Moses is believed to have received it on Mount Sinai
  • Maimonades’ (Jewish teacher) principles were that the Torah was given in its entirety to Moses and can never be changed
  • Reform Jews believe it’s not necessary to take the Torah literally and they should adapt their teaching to the modern world
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What does morality mean?

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Knowing the difference between actions and intentions that are right or good and those that are bad or wrong

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What are the legs of the Catholic stool?

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  • Bible
  • Magisterium
  • Tradition
  • Conscience
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What is Tradition?

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The inspired wisdom captured in the words, custom and lives of the Christians

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What is the Magisterium?

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How the Pope and the bishops interpret the Bible for Catholics today

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How does communicate with humans?

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Through the 3 legs of the Catholic stool ( Bible, Magisterium and Tradition)

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What does the Old Testament contain ?

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Begins with the story of creation and the story of the people of the Israel

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What does the New Testament ?

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Starts with the Gospels of Jesus and the story of disciples and the early church

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How does the Holy Spirit help the Catholic Church ?

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The Holy Spirit helps the Catholic Church grow in wisdom through the lives of inspirational people like the saints, theologians and inspirational people of faith

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What does Magister mean?

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Latin word for teacher

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Who are the Pope and the bishop successors of?

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The Church’s authority continues through bishops and successors and they are seen as direct successors to Saint Peter and the apostles

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2 examples of teachings of the Magisterium

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  • Pope issuing a teaching on the environment

- Worldwide discussion amongst Catholics on the family

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What is the conscience?

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A voice in people’s head telling them what they should or shouldn’t do

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What do Catholics believe about conscience and what did St Thomas Aquinas think about it ?(Q)

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They believe that it is the same voice as God and St Thomas Aquinas taught that Christians mould use their conscience when making a decision
- “God calls men and women to serve Him and in turn, hence they are bound in conscience but they stand under no compulsion- St Aquinas Thomas

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What are symbolic stories?

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Stories that have a hidden, deeper meaning and are often told to get points across to help people understand fully

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What is a Catholic example of symbolic stories?

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Genesis (Story of creation)

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What happens on the first day of creation?(Q)

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God created heavens, earth , light - day and darkness - night
- “Let there be light?’-

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What happened on the third day of creation?

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God created land, seas and vegetation

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What happened on the fourth day of creation?

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God created the sun and moon

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What happened on the second day of creation?

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God created the sky

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What happened on the fifth day of creation ?

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God created living things in the sea, land and sky

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What happened on the sixth day of creation?

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God created Adam

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A quote for mankind made in God’s image

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” Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”

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What happened on the seventh day of creation?

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God rested.

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What happened in Genesis 2?

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  • God created Adam out of the dust from the grounding breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
  • Warned to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
  • God make Eve with one of Adam’s ribs
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Quote for God making women

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“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh:

she shall be called ‘woman’ for she is taken out of man”

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What are the qualities of God shown in Genesis?

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  • Omnibenevolent
  • Omnipotent
  • Transcendent
  • Internal
  • Creator
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What does Genesis show Catholics?

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  • We are made in the image of God
  • We have a role in creation
  • God gave us life
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In what context do Catholics take Genesis ?

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They take the message that is symbolically represented in Genesis

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What did St Augustine tell us about creation ex nihilo?

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” Creator of all things, … who, by His almighty power, from the beginning of time has created both orders in the same way out of nothing”

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What do Jewish belief about the creation of the world?

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  • God is the source of all life and referred to the sole creator in the Torah
  • modeh ani prayer is said by Jews each morning to thank God for allowing life for another day
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Quote for God creating the word in Judaism

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“Blessed be he who spoke and the world existed”

45
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Big Bang Theory

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Theory that the universe originated in an explosion of light, matter and energy that created time and space

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How was the world created ?

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when anti-matter and matter meet they destroy each other but in the Big Bang there was slightly more matter

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How long ago was the world created?

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13.7 billion years ago

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What did Stephen Hawkins say about Big Bang Theory ?

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“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing”

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Who is Stephen Hawking ?

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A famous cosmologist who believes in the Big Bang Theory and had strong evidence to support the theory that the universe had a one-off beginning (“a moment of singularity”) by looking closely of the number of galaxies at their stages of development , which indicates their fairly specific age of 14 billions years

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When was the creation ex nihilo made an official Catholic teaching?

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1215

51
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How is God’s omnipotence shown in Genesis?

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When he creates the universe out of nothing (creation ex nihilo) and mankind

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How is God’s omnibenevolence shown in Genesis?

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When he creates the universe out of nothing (creation ex nihilo) and creating a companion for Adam to end his loneliness

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Quote to show God’s love for Adam

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“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him”

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How is God’s transcendence shown in Genesis?

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God existed before time and space did

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How is God’s creator shown in Genesis?

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He created the universe and mankind