FRESHMAN JESUS CHRIST: REVELATION UNIT 1 (AUGUST 2023)

Summarizes the Catholic teachings about faith and morals.

official teaching authority of the Church, made up of the bishops in communion with the pope.

What is Faith?

Holy Trinity may be compared to a family which is selfless in its love for each other.

Where do we find Divine Revelation?

The Greek term used to describe Jesus as the Word, meaning “divine wisdom.”

many religions have offered prayers, sacrifices & rituals to in belief/worship of divine being.

Deposit of Faith = Sacred Scripture & Sacred Tradition

Only through Jesus Christ can humans truly know God intimately and eternally.

What is the Catholic Church then in relation to Divine Revelation?

Monotheism is belief in one all-powerful God?

A person who believes in the existence of God. (best answer)

What is Divine Revelation?

A person who believes God’s existence cannot be known.

Idolatry?

Sacred Scripture includes -

What is REVELATION?

Divine Revelation?

Polytheism involves belief in many gods?

The word “tradition” is derived from a term which means:

If we ignore God and forget about God, God will ignore and forget us.

The central mystery of the Christian faith. It teaches that there are Three Persons in one God.

What is Natural Revelation?

What Jesus taught to Apostles & other early disciples was first passed down by word of mouth.

Covenant?

An Atheistic humanist would say:

Atheism and agnosticism are sins against the virtue of

The fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it

Which of these arguments for God’s existence would you offer to a skeptical friend?

What's more reasonable?

Truths contained in Divine Revelation or additional truths connected w/ those in D. Revelation.

The way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind.

The Holy Trinity is very similar to the ancient gods of myths.

What big questions do you have about life and the world?

Church faithful as a whole—lay people to bishops—cannot be wrong about matters of belief.

What is secularism? It is a belief that...

relationship between humans and God that results in a body of beliefs and a set of practices.

The story of God’s saving action in human history.

we can come to know God’s existence & attributes by using our human reason & senses.

Perfect and complete happiness (Heaven) can be achieved in this life.

indifference to religion & belief religion should be excluded from civil affairs & public educ.

Human language always falls short of fully describing who God is?

How can God have no beginning or end?

Origins of the World and Humankind

HAPPINESS?