Ch 1: Being Human
Define divine
Related to or coming from God
By which sacrament do we share in Jesus' work as a prophet?
Baptism and/or Confirmation
Christians recognize Jesus as the
What is the Messiah?
Jesus was very devoted to this religion
What is jewish?
Christians call Jesus' return to the Father in Heaven after his Resurrection this
What is the Ascension?
belief in one God
what is monotheism?
what are three common metaphors Catholics use to describe the nature of God?
What is Father, creator, loving parent?
Jewish leaders who began the process of creating written books from opal stories and writings
What are scribes?
What is fully human and fully God?
This many days after the Resurrection, Jesus left the material world and returned to his Father in Heaven.
What is 40 days?
belief in many gods
what is polytheism?
The communication from God through which human beings come to know who God is
What is Revelation?
After rebuilding the Temple, the Jewish people were mostly under this rule.
What is foreign rule?
Christians call God's gift of love this
What is grace?
The part of the New Testament which tells the story of early Christian communities and how they spread from Jerusalen to the larger world.
What are The Acts of the Apostles?
what is the original sin
what is Adam and Eve?
Salvation history - define
The patterns of events in human history in which God's presence and saving actions are revealed?
During this, the city of Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed
What is the Babylon Exile?
Jesus had been raised here and in the house of this man.
What is Nazareth and in the house of Joseph?
The Holy Spirit appeared to the Disciples as this
What are tongues of fire?
Paschal mystery
God's love for us revealed through the life, death, resurrection, and glorification of Christ
Prophecy
what is the announcement of future or hidden events, which could not be foreseen by human means?
The name given by the Greeks to the Promised Land
What is Palestine?
At its root, incarnation means this.
What is "made in flesh"?
The spirit of Jesus attracted non jews to convert. They were known as this.
What are Gentiles?