Some Sin Stuff
All sin is a failure to do what properly?
To love God and neighbor
All sin is an offense against who?
God
This is the first and the greatest commandment.
Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
We are all made in what?
The image of God
Sin is an offense against this human ability.
Reason
True or false: Secret sin harms your neighbor.
True
What are the two main things that Christians are called to do?
Confirmation does what to Baptismal graces?
Perfects them.
What does it mean that sin proliferates?
The more you sin, the more you sin.
What are the three parts of a moral act?
Object; intention; circumstance
Like Original Sin, all sin is an attempt to make ourselves like this.
God.
Which other Sacrament is most linked with Confirmation?
Baptism
What are the three artifacts of the Fall?
Concupiscence/a tendency to sin; darkened intellect; weakened will
What is relativism?
The false belief that morality is subjective.
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What gift of the Holy Spirit is especially linked with Confirmation?
Fortitude
What is social sin?
Structures or systems that encourage sin which are built into society.
What is consequentialism?
The false belief that the moral quality of an act is determined by the consequences and/or the intention.
How many of the Ten Commandments are summed-up by what Jesus calls the second commandment?
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Fortitude is a gift of the Holy Spirit as well as this, and it means you have this.
Fortitude is a Cardinal Virtue, and it means strength to do good in the face of difficulties.