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For what purpose are we here on earth?
We are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heaven.
Why did God create us?
God created us out of free and unselfish love
What message does the Parable of the Lost Sheep convey?
The Kingdom of God is accessible to all, even those who were sinners or strayed from God's path
Explain what 'incarnation' means
(from the Latin caro, carnis = flesh, “becoming flesh”): God’s act of becoming man in Jesus Christ. This is the foundation of Christian faith and of hope for the redemption of mankind
How can we tell what belongs to the true faith?
We find the true faith in Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the Church
What does God show us about himself when he sends his Son to us?
God shows us in Jesus Christ the full depth of his merciful love
How does God reveal himself in the Old Testament?
God shows himself in the →OLD TESTAMENT as God, who created the world out of love and remains faithful to men even when they have fallen away from him into sin
What happened at Mount Sinai?
Mount Sinai is renowned as the principal site of divine revelation in Jewish history, where God is purported to have appeared to Moses and given him the Ten Commandments
With Jesus Christ, has everything been said, or does revelation continue even after him?
In Jesus Christ, God himself came to earth. He is God’s last Word. By listening to him, all men of all times can know who God is and what is necessary for their salvation
Why did God have to show himself in order for us to be able to know what he is like?
Man can know by reason that God exists, but not what God is really like. Yet because God would very much like to be known, he has revealed himself.
Name the four Gospels of the New Testament
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
“Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS—or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread”. What did Mother Teresa mean by this comparison?
We hand on the faith because Jesus commands us: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). No genuine Christian leaves the transmission of the faith exclusively to specialists. We are Christ for others. This means that every genuine Christian would like God to come to other people, too.
What does revelation mean?
Revelation means that God opens himself, shows himself, and speaks to the world voluntarily
How can we understand 'religion'?
We can understand religion generally to mean a relationship to what is divine. A religious person acknowledges something divine as the power that created him and the world, on which he is dependent and to which he is ordered. He wants to please and honor the Divinity by his way of life
What are the first three Historical Books of the Old Testament?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus
How can Sacred Scripture be “truth” if not everything in it is right?
The →BIBLE is not meant to convey precise historical information or scientific findings to us. Moreover, the authors were children of their time. They shared the cultural ideas of the world around them and often were also dominated by its errors. Nevertheless, everything that man must know about God and the way of his salvation is found with infallible certainty in Sacred Scripture
How many books are in the New Testament?
27 books
How many books are in the Old Testament?
46 books
What is the right way to read the Bible?
The right way to read Sacred Scripture is to read it prayerfully, in other words, with the help of the Holy Spirit, under whose influence it came into being. It is God’s Word and contains God’s essential communication to us
Who stated:
"One must know man and human things in order to love them. One must love God and divine things in order to know them"
BLAISE PASCAL, (1623-1662, French mathematician and philosopher)