JESUS CHRIST God

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JESUS CHRISTGods Revelation to the World

• Chapter One
• Searching for God

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True Happiness

• Only God can make us truly happy since God
  created us and made us with longing souls that
  only he can satisfy.

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• Money and power cannot buy true happiness
  neither can possessions, popularity, physical
  beauty, athletic skill or intellectual
  achievement.

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God The Source of True Happiness

• We were made to be happy. Yet we will only
  achieve true happiness if we understand, accept
  and live Gods plan for us.

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• God created us to share in his own blessed life,
  God wants to share his love.

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The Restless Human Heart

• We all have deep yearnings for completeness, for
  satisfaction, for happiness that is implanted in
  us by God himself and is only satisfied by God.

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• God Wants you to be happy, but you wont be
  perfectly happy until you rest in him.
• St. Augustine Our hearts are restless until it
  rests in you.

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Questioning Minds

• We not only have restless hearts we have active
  questioning minds.
• Just like your hearts yearns for love and
  happiness, you are searching for the truth about
  human existence

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• you want to know what is the meaning of life.
• God made you, and all humans, in his image and
  likeness.

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• Being made in Gods image endows us with the
  ability to choose and to think.

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We Are Religious by Nature

• Through out history, humans have discovered that
  they are not whole or complete persons unless
  they are connected, bound to or related to God.

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• Religion reconnecting to the divine or
  binding to God
• Monotheistic the belief in one God

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• Polytheistic the belief in many gods
• Irreligion the lack of religion, indifference to
  religion, or hostility to religion.

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• Secularism the principle that promotes worldly
  values or ideals over religious ones.
• Atheist someone who does not believe in God.
  (denies the existence of God)

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• Agnosticism The belief that Gods existence
  cannot be known,
• (from the Greek word meaning dont know) in
  essence to decide not to decide

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• Divine Revelation Gods free gift of
  self-communication, which helps us understand
  Gods plan for us.

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Knowing God Through Natural Revelation

• Contemplating Creation
• God our creator and LORD can be known with
  certainty from his works, by the natural light of
  human reason. (CCC, 47)

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• Saint Thomas Aquinas set out five proofs for
  Gods existence.

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• 1.Unmoved Movers There must have been a First
  Mover who started everything, that unmoved
  mover is God.

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• 2. First Cause Nothing causes itself, there has
  to be a first cause or uncaused cause that is
  eternal and started everything.

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• 3. Everything Comes From Something For anything
  to exist, there must be a necessary, eternal
  being (God) who always existed and brought other
  beings into existence.

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• 4. Supreme Model This supreme model of goodness,
  truth, and beauty is the perfect being we call
  God.

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• 5. Grand Designer The world contains beauty,
  symmetry, order, and power that must have been
  put in by a grand designer. That someone is God.

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Contemplating the Human Person

• The human hear longs for happiness, love and
  understanding, our lives have meaning beauty and
  truth.
• God gives us a taste of heaven here on earth.

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• The God who made, understands, and loves gives
  us a glimpse of what is in store for us when we
  are united with him in eternity.

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• Conscience A judgment of reason that helps a
  person decide the goodness or sinfulness of a
  action or attitude.
• (continue)

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• A judgment of reason whereby the human person
  recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act.
• (to do good and avoid evil)

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Love and intelligence

• Free will which enables us to love, and
  intelligence which enables us to think, can only
  come from love and intelligence itself, God.

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• Original Sin The sin of Adam and Eve into which
  we are born and resulted in their los of original
  holiness and justice.

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• Original Sin The first sin of human kind that
  broke our intimate relationship with God.

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Knowing God Through Divine Revelation

• By looking at creation and reflecting on the
  human person we can discover that God exists.

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• Omnipotent an attribute of God that he is
  everywhere, almighty, unlimited and all-powerful.
• Revelation means unveiling, uncovering

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• God is infinitely loving and good. Because of
  this he entered human history.
• God revealed himself to us.

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• He stepped into human history to tell us who he
  really is.
• Salvation History The story of Gods saving
  action in human history.

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• We learn about Gods plan of revelation in the
  Bible.
• The Scriptures (Bible) teach that God invites
  humans to live in covenant with him.

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• Covenant a binding promise between God and
  humankind in which God pledges enduring love and
  asks for our love in return.

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• God will always be faithful to us we are called
  to be faithful to God.
• The greatest sign of Gods love was the sending
  of his Son, Jesus Christ our Savior.

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• The truths about Jesus and Salvation History are
  found in Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture.

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• Sacred Tradition The Churchs handing on of the
  Gospel message.
• The living transmission of the Churchs Gospel.

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• Sacred Scripture The written record of Divine
  Revelation found in the books of the Old and New
  Testament (the Bible)

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• Magisterium The official teaching authority of
  the Church.

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• The Magisterium is the bishops in common with
  the successor of Peter, the bishop of Rome, the
  pope.

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Salvation History

• Creation of the world (original sin)
• Covenant with Noah (sign rainbow)
• Covenant with Abraham (sign male circumcision)

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• Covenant with Moses, the Sinai Covenant, God
  revealed his sacred name Yahweh.
• Yahweh I Am Who I Am (YHWH)

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• Kings and Prophets
• The first three kings of Israel are Saul, David
  and Solomon.

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• Prophets A Greek word meaning
• one who speaks before others. God sent
  prophets to help form in his people the hope of
  salvation.

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• Wisdom Literature
• Jesus Christ

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Handing Down Divine Revelation

• Deposit of Faith The heritage of faith contained
  in Sacred Scripture and Tradition handed down in
  the Church from the time of the Apostles.

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• Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Apostles handed
  down the deposit or heritage of faith, to the
  Church.

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SACRED SCRIPTURE

• Bible The word bible means books.
• Canon The official list of inspired books of the
  Bible.

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OLD TESTAMENT

• The Catholic canon of the Old Testament list 46
  books.
• Gods workings in the history of the Chosen
  People,

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• his fidelity to his covenants and his promise to
  send a Savior (the Messiah).

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NEW TESTAMENT

• The Catholic canon of the New Testament list 27
  books.
• Gods saving action through his Son, Jesus Christ,

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• and the covenant sealed in his death and
  Resurrection.

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SAINT PETER

• The first among the twelve Apostles, upon whom
  Christ founded the Church.
• Keys represent the authority given to St. Peter
  as head of the Church.

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• The Latin Cross turned upside down symbolizes the
  manner of St. Peters execution.

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• Dogma A central truth of Revelation that
  Catholics are obliged (must) to believe.

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• Faith Our response to divine revelation.
• Faith is our response to Gods invitation which
  comes to us through the Church.

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• Faith is a virtue, one of the three theological
  virtues.
• The theological virtues are faith, hope and
  charity.

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• These virtues are known as theological because
  they relate us to God.
• (theos is a Greek word for God)