Chapter 1
God's making himself known to us through his mighty deeds and by his interactions with his people throughout time.
What is Divine Revelation?
The ability to know the difference between good and evil, right and wrong.
What is conscience?
The first sin that weakened human nature and brought ignorance, suffering, and death into the world.
What is Original Sin?
The place where God decided to stop human beings from finishing their building by confusing their language.
What is the Tower of Babel?
A gift from God that enables us to believe in him and accept all that he has revealed.
What is faith?
Three Persons in One God
What is the Blessed Trinity?
The freedom and ability to choose.
What is free will?
The invisible spiritual reality that makes each of us human.
What is our soul?
The writers of the four Gospels
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
God's plan for and protection of all creation.
What is Providence?
Called Sacred Scripture or simply Scripture, this is the written record of God's Revelation and his relationship with his people.
What is the Bible?
The value and worth that comes from being made in God's image and likeness.
What is human dignity?
A person who is given both the authority over what he or she cares for and the responsibility for seeing that it lives and grows.
What is a steward?
The Good News about God at work in Jesus Christ.
What is the Gospel?
The king of Egypt.
What is the pharoah?
The special guidance that the Holy Spirit gave to the human writers of the Bible.
What is Divine Inspiration?
The first book in the Bible, and it is about beginnings.
What is the Book of Genesis?
A thought, word, deed, or omission against God's Law
What is a sin?
The sons of Adam and Eve
Who are Cain and Abel?
A father, or founder, of a clan, a group of related families.
What is a patriarch?
The Revelation of the Good News of Jesus Christ as lived out in the church.
What is Tradition?
An agreement between God and his people.
What is covenant?
They committed the Original Sin
Who are Adam and Eve?
God told him to build an ark and fill it with two of every living thing, male and female, along with his wife and family.
Who is Noah?
An area in western Palestine that included most of present-day Israel.
What is Canaan?