Covenants
What is a covenant?
a legal way of making someone into your family.
extension of kinship by oath
How many days and nights did it rain during the Great Flood?
40
Which tree did God tell Adam and Eve not to eat from ?
The tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
What did Adam and Eve bring into the world through their sin?
suffering
the Catholic Church teaches that Adam and Eve WERE real people. True or False.
True
what are 2 examples of covenants?
What did God say at the end of each day of Creation?
And God saw that it was good
What are the two initial tactics of the devil?
1. casting doubt "Did God really say"
2. outright denial "You will NOT die"
Name one of the consequences of Adam and Eve's sin?
Adam: difficult labor and work
Eve: painful childbirth
Catholics believe that the human soul was directly created by God. True or False
true
What was the sign of God's covenant with Noah?
the rainbow
What two problems did God face in the beginning of creation.
The earth was without form or shape and was empty
What was the response of Adam and Eve when God confronted them about eating the fruit?
Adam: blamed Eve and blamed God : "The woman whom YOU gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and ate" (Gen 3:13)
Eve: blames the serpent: "The serpent beguiled me ,and I ate" (Gen 3:13)
Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?
Pride - to be like God, but without God
What New Testament event reverses the confusion at Babel. Explain how.
Pentecost. The Apostles of Jesus preached to the crowds and the people heard them all in their language. brought unification.
What 3 promises did God make to Abraham?
The loss of sanctifying grace that all humans are born with as a result of Adam & Eve's disobedience.
Original Sin
What does Original Holiness & Original Justice refer to?
Original holiness : full communion with God, sharing in His divine life
Original Justice: the original state of Adam and Eve before the fall, a state of complete harmony with themselves, with each other, and with all creation
What was Cain's sin that made God reject his sacrifice & what did it lead him to do?
Cain was envious of his brother. ENVY
led him to murder his brother
What is the relationship between faith and reason?
the complement each other.
"Faith and reason can never really disagree. God is the author of both the natural world and of divine revelation" - CCC 159
Name the covenants, their meditator, and their mountain
1. Adamic - Adam - Eden
2. Noahic - Noah - Arat
3. Abrahamic - Abraham - Moriah
4. Mosaic - Moses - Sinai
5. Davidic - David - Zion
6. New Covenant - Son of David- none
7. Eucharistic - Jesus - Calvary
Name the 5 roles of Adam.
1. Son of God
2. Bridegroom
3. Priest
4. Prophet
5. King
What is the Protoevangelium referring to?
God's promise in Gen 3:15 to send a redeemer who will conquer the serpent
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel"
What was Cain's famous line after he killed his brother and What was God's response to Cain?
1. Am I my Brother's keeper?
2. He punished him but still protected him
What is the difference between the fundamentalist approach & the contextualist approach?
Fundamentalist approach: taking the literal meaning of bible's words, not taking into account the historical setting in which the writings or teachings developed.
contextualist approach: takes into account various contexts for understanding. Contexts include: senses of Scripture, literary forms, historical situations, cultural backgrounds, the unity of the whole of sacred scripture, sacred tradition, and the apology of faith.