FRESHMEN CHAPTER 1- REVELATION?

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

REVELATION

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

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

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

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

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

HAPPINESS?

Where do we find Divine Revelation?

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

Idolatry?

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

What is Natural Revelation?

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

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

Summarizes the Catholic teachings about faith and morals.

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

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

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

Covenant?

Monotheism is belief in one all-powerful God?

Polytheism involves belief in many gods?

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

The way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind.

What is Divine Revelation?

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

Atheism and agnosticism are sins against the virtue of

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

What's more reasonable?

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

What is Faith?

Divine Revelation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can God have no beginning or end?

Origins of the World and Humankind

Deposit of Faith = Sacred Scripture & Sacred Tradition

Sacred Scripture includes -

An Atheistic humanist would say: