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Title: 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.

4
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)

27
  • 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.

29
  • Original Sin The sin of Adam and Eve into which
    we are born and resulted in their los of original
    holiness and justice.

30
  • 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.

32
  • 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.

34
  • 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.

40
  • 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.

43
Salvation History
  • Creation of the world (original sin)
  • Covenant with Noah (sign rainbow)
  • Covenant with Abraham (sign male circumcision)

44
  • 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.

46
  • Prophets A Greek word meaning
  • one who speaks before others. God sent
    prophets to help form in his people the hope of
    salvation.

47
  • 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.

49
  • 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.

56
  • 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)
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