Relgion

To give an expression of your grasp of the nature/worth/quality of benefits recieved

• Desire is written on the human heart
• Man made by God
• Man made for God
• God never stops drawing man to Himself
• Man only finds permanent happiness in GOd

Calling or destiny we have in this life and hereafter. God made man to love/serve; fulfilling this vocation is eternal happiness

God makes himself known through created world by natural human reasoning

When Adam/Eve ate the fruit and introduced death to humanity for the first time

God reavealing Himself and his plan of loving kindess form ed from all eternity in Christ for the benefit of all humans

• Bible
• Teaching of Jesus
• Salvation history

Bible

Authentic list of inspired writings that are recognized by the Church

The laying of the hands on the deciples of Jesus to continue a direct connect to Him

Pope and Bishops who decide if a Bible book is legit or not

The virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief.

Enables us to determine which course of action is right and which is not.

This virtue ensures firmness in difficulty and constancy in the pursuit of the good

directs ones impulses and desires towards what is good

The critical interpretation and explanation of a biblical text

the communion or unity that all the baptized have with all other baptized; which encompasses heaven and earth

A non-jew

• 1. The Father in heaven meets His children with great love and speaks with them.
• 2. Is the support and energy of the Church.
• 3. Strength of Faith.
• 4. Food of the soul.
• 5. Pure/everlasting source of spiritual life.

• Human
• Divine

• Time/Culture
• Literary Genre
• Modes of thinking/feeling

• Bible as a whole
• Sacred Tradition/teaching of church
• God's overall plan of salvation

Literal and Spiritual

• Allegorical
• Moral
• Anagogical

This is where the characters or events somehow "foreshadow" Christ or his actions

This is where the passage indirectly helps us understand how we ought to act

This is where the passage reveals something about or leads us to our true destiny (heaven)

The first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers.

History of God saving us

3 persons in God

Kinship between two parties

Self-curse

1st son's inheirtance of father's possessions and position of authority

Removing foreskin, symbolizing the cutting of things that bring us from God

Harmoney within: God/humanity, Man/Woman, humanity/creation

• 1. Holy Trinity
• 2. Original state of holiness/justice
• 3. Gradual restoration through covenants and Jesus
• 4. Scripture is the story of God's plan to save us

God's

Loving in their relationships

Don't eat the forbidden fruit

Banished from the garden

• 1. Promise not to destroy humanity
• 2. Conditions: Don't kill people/eat meat with lift blood
• 3. Bond in blood: Kill and be killed
• 4. Sign: Rainbow

Circumcision= sign of covenant, outward sign of the fact that the condition is being kept

• 1. Make of you a great nation
• 2. Make your name great
• 3. Bless people through you

bros

First born who was tricked out of his birthrights and later his blessing was stolen by Jacob

Stew

Leah and Rachel

Israel

A burning bush

• Saving the Jews
• (Even though he was initally sent as a save)

Death of the first born

Putting lamb's blood on their doors

King of Israel

The 7 additional books in the Catholic bible than the Hebew version

Occurred ~mid 1500, they decided which books went in the Old/New testaments

• Gospels
• Acts of the Apostiles
• Revelation
• Pauline Letters
• Catholic Letters

• Wisdom
• Profits
• Pentetuch
• Historical

Drama of history's last days focused on christ

Letters written by st. Paul to communities of churches

Gospel of Luke starts with Jesus' acension to Paul preaching in Rome

Like Pauline by universally written

Good news, 4 books/accounts

Practical advice of a well lived life

Written version of God's word to remind us of our covenant

History of God's people/covenants

The Torah, 1st five books of the Bible

Yes but it's difficult

Unbroken line of authority from Jesus through discliples

Truths of faith that are contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred tradition

Greeks defeat Persians, Israelites under Greek control

Romans occupy Judah and they're no longer an independant nation

Judah revolts Babylonian, Jerusalem destroyed

Judah becomes independant for 80 years

Judah surrenders to Babylon

Solomon=last king of Israel and Judah

Judah becomes Assyrian vassal