Vocab Quiz 1

Question 1

Enuma Elish

Answer 1

The Babylonian epic or myth of creation

Question 2

Etiology

Answer 2

An explanation of the cause of something. In the Bible, it appears as narrative, typically reaching back to the distant past to describe the core meaning of something that we experience universally.

Question 3

Guardian angel

Answer 3

Angels who personally watches out for you by protecting you and helps in leading you to god.

Question 4

Magisterium

Answer 4

The bishops, in communion with the pope (the successor of St. Peter), who are the living and teaching office of the Church.

Question 5

Original holiness and original Justice

Answer 5

The state of a man and woman in paradise before sin

Question 6

Parousia

Answer 6

The second coming of Christ, when the lord will judge the living and the dead.

Question 7

Philosophy

Answer 7

The human attempt to provide rational explanations for why things are the way they are and for how people should conduct their lives

Question 8

Primeval History

Answer 8

The accounts humans have told and recorded about the origins of the earth, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures.

Question 9

Original Justice

Answer 9

Human beings in harmony with: God, themselves, and creation

Question 10

Original Holiness

Answer 10

Sharing intimately in god’s divine life

Question 11

Natural revelation

Answer 11

Coming to know the one personal god as creator of all things by looking at the world around you, and at human beings and thinking about them

Question 12

Divine revelation

Answer 12

The way God communicated who he is to humankind: a self-communication realized by his actions and words overtime

Question 13

Heaven

Answer 13

Properly, God’s spiritual Domain. It is also the “place” where the angels and saints live, and it is where the redeemed experience eternal life in its fullness

Question 14

Angel

Answer 14

Purely spiritual creature possessing: intelligence, will, and personality. The word means, “Messenger from God” in Greek

Question 15

Corporeal

Answer 15

Having a physical, material body

Question 16

Literal sense of scripture

Answer 16

What the words in the scripture mean at the surface level and, as it was understood at the time, how things actually happened.

Question 17

Spiritual sense of scripture

Answer 17

Refers to not just the words of scripture, but rather to what is signified by the words.

Question 18

Sacred Scripture

Answer 18

The inspired word of god

Question 19

Typological

Answer 19

A manner of reading and interpreting scripture by recognizing its unity by where what happens in the Old Testament prefigured what God will do in the New Testament

Question 20

Myth

Answer 20

A narrative that seems to relate actual events but is primarily symbolic, often associated with religious beliefs.