FAITH & BELIEF
what does faith help guide in a person's life?
Answer: What a person thinks, chooses, and does.
What value is developed when a person faithfully and honestly performs their responsibilities?
Answer: Integrity.
What do we call the careful process of choosing what is right and avoiding what is wrong?
Answer: Responsible decision-making.
Name one of the four resources highlighted in the “Reducing Resource Use” lesson.
Answer: Food, clothing, water, or electricity.
Your classmates invite you to skip class. What should you do?
Answer: Refuse and choose the responsible action.
Faith reminds us that life is a ______ from God.
Gift.
A student promises to submit an assignment on time and actually submits it as promised. What quality is demonstrated?
Answer: Reliability / integrity.
What is the “inner voice” that helps a person recognize whether an action is right or wrong?
Answer: Conscience
A student leaves the faucet running while brushing their teeth. Is this WASTEFUL or WISE?
Answer: WASTEFUL.
Your friend wants you to help them cheat during an examination because they are afraid of failing.
What value should guide your response?
Answer: Integrity/honesty and responsible decision-making.
student is invited to participate in a dangerous online challenge just to gain followers. Based on the lesson, what should guide the student's decision?
Answer: Faith and respect for life should guide the student to avoid the dangerous activity.
A student notices that their groupmate did not contribute to a project but wants to put the groupmate's name on the final output anyway. What principle of integrity is being challenged?
Answer: Honesty and faithfully fulfilling one's responsibilities.
Your friend asks you to lie so that neither of you will get in trouble. What should you consider before deciding?
Answer: The possible choices, their consequences, what your conscience tells you, and how your faith or beliefs guide you.
A teenager has a closet full of usable clothes but keeps buying trendy clothes.
What makes this consumption potentially excessive?
Answer: The person is consuming beyond what is needed even though they already have usable clothing. More responsible options include reusing, repairing, swapping, donating, or buying only what is needed.
Your friends pressure you to vape because they say, “Everyone is doing it.”
What should you consider before deciding?
Answer: The possible consequences, respect for life and oneself, personal values, conscience, and faith/belief. The lesson specifically uses this situation to examine how faith guides choices.
A student is struggling with a difficult decision. Instead of immediately acting, the student becomes quiet, thinks carefully, and prays according to their faith. What three steps from the lesson are being applied?
Be silent, reflect, and pray.
Why is work considered a moral responsibility in the lesson, rather than simply something a person does to receive a reward?
Answer: Because work reflects a person's values and character. Performing responsibilities honestly and faithfully contributes to personal growth and develops integrity.
A student finds a wallet containing ₱2,000 and the owner's identification card. Nobody saw the student find it.
What would responsible decision-making require the student to consider?
Answer: The possible choices and consequences, conscience, moral values, and the responsibility to return the wallet rather than keep it.
An empty classroom has its lights, fans, and projector running even though nobody is inside.
Why is this more than simply “wasting electricity”?
Answer: It wastes a shared resource unnecessarily. A good steward should switch off unused equipment and recognize that responsible resource use is everyone's responsibility.
You are responsible for turning off the classroom equipment, but your friends tell you to leave because “someone else will do it.”
What would integrity AND good stewardship require you to do?
Answer: Take responsibility and turn off the unused equipment because faithfully performing one's responsibility demonstrates integrity, while conserving electricity demonstrates good stewardship.
A student says, “I have faith, so I don't need to think about the consequences of my actions because God will take care of everything.”
Is this consistent with responsible decision-making? Explain.
Answer: No. Faith should guide responsible action, not replace careful thinking. A person should use conscience, reflect, consider consequences, and choose what is morally right.
A student works very hard only when the teacher is watching. When the teacher leaves, the student stops working and lets classmates do the task.
Does this demonstrate integrity? Why or why not?
Answer: No. Integrity means faithfully and honestly performing responsibilities consistently, not only when someone is watching.
Two choices are available:
A: Do what is easy and avoid immediate trouble.
B: Do what is morally right even though it may create difficulty.
what should determine the decision?
Answer: The person should use prudence/careful judgment, listen to conscience, consider consequences, and choose what is morally right rather than simply choosing what is easiest.
A student buys a large meal, eats only a small portion, and throws the rest away.
The student says, “I paid for it, so I can waste it.” What is wrong with this reasoning according to the lesson?
Answer: Paying for something does not make waste responsible. Good stewardship means recognizing that resources have value, taking only what one can eat, saving leftovers when possible, and avoiding unnecessary consumption.
You discover that your best friend is cheating during an examination. Your friend begs you not to tell anyone because they might fail.
You have three choices:
A. Ignore it because they are your friend.
B. Help them because you don't want them to fail.
C. Refuse to participate and choose the morally responsible action.
Which is the best choice, and what concepts from the lessons support your answer?
Answer: C. The decision should be guided by conscience, integrity, prudence, faith/belief, and consideration of consequences. Friendship does not make dishonesty right. Responsible decision-making requires choosing what is morally right even when the choice is difficult.