4.1 The Role of Faith in Biblical Understanding
This is the answer to ultimately living out your faith.
What is the Bible?
This is the name for the second canonical books that include the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Joshua Son of Sirach, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees.
What are the deuterocanonical books?
This explains how we ought to think of ourselves so that God is able to work in us and through us for His Holy purposes.
What is a chosen vessel?
This Holy Sacrament is the anointing of a newly baptized believer by receiving the seal of the Holy Spirit.
What is the Holy Sacrament of Chrismation/Confirmation?
This Person instituted the holy sacrament
Who is Jesus?
Fill in the blank: We read the Scriptures in light of the sayings of ____ to make sure we are practicing a sound doctrine.
What is the early church fathers?
This is defined as the standard, corpus, or code with one standard interpretation. It sets a standard to which nothing shall be added nor removed, preserving its meaning
What is a canon?
This influenced the Apostles and other Bible writers but did not override or overrule their personality
What is the Holy Spirit?
This was the year that the Holy Bible was compiled in. This also explains how Christians in the early church were able to hear the Scriptures before this year.
What is the year 400 AD?
This is the purpose of the Holy Sacrament of the Unction of the Sick
What is: to ask for God's divine grace to heal the sick physically, mentally, and spiritually (i.e. body, mind and soul)
This is how you can prove we have true faith.
What is: our actions and deeds aligning with our faith and trust in God
Before the establishment of the canons and the early church fathers contribution, there were this many accounts of the Gospel.
What are 30+ accounts?
While the Gospels account for similar events/accounts this is what makes the 4 Gospels different from one another.
What is different writer personalities, writing styles, etc?
This early church father spoke against the heresy of Christ's nature whose contribution towards defending the Orthodox faith is in the statement of faith (aka the Orthodox Creed) we read today.
Who is St Athanasius of Alexandria?
This action symbolizes Christ being the light of the world and the rising of prayers to heaven
What are the lighting of the candles before each prayer?
This is how we learn to see God's motives and intentions in everything we do instead of blaming Him for awful incidents that we may encounter in our lives.
What is: reading the Bible, attending Sunday School, listening to liturgical homilies/sermons?
“These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” (Luke 24:44)
This supports the idea that...
What is: Jesus Christ supporting the canonization of the OT
Fill in the blank:
The Holy Spirit cannot work on our salvations, purification, or move our hearts if we don’t ___
What is: "choose to participate as well"?
Matthew 18:18, “‘Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
This Bible Verse explains the basis of this Holy Sacrament.
What is the Holy Sacrament of Confession?
Fill in the blanks:
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call ____ to pray over them and ___ them with ___ in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
What is anoint and oil?
These are some of the ways in which we can measure the strength of our faith and also fuel our faith
What is:
Confidence in God’s qualities, God’s ability to do anything, in God’s timing; Humility of heart and mind; Experience with God; Seeing God in every matter that happens to you; Take Him as your friend
What is the Holy Eucharist
22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. (John 10:22)
This is in direct reference from which deuterocanonical book that Christ is quoting?
What is the Book of Maccabees?
Similarly to the Bible writers, this is how we can become chosen vessels.
What is: by emptying ourselves of unnecessary content, distractions, worldly desires and by choosing to pursue a relationship with Christ everyday
Priest: “Lift up your hearts.”
People: “We have them with the Lord.”
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This liturgical saying is rooted from this Bible verse.
What is Ephesians 2:4-5?
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
This concept explains the healing of the body and soul
What is the invisible grace (given by God)?