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Dear Father, teach me to love. Teach me to know, love, and serve thee above all else. Teach me to love my brother and my sister out of love for thee. In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

Opening Prayer

Review

• God invites us into relationship with Him
• God reveals Himself to us through Divine Revelation
• Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, The Magisterium
• Bible passages are written in the format: Book Chapter:Verse(s)
• The Mass has two major parts: the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist
• most of the prayers of the Mass are rooted in Scripture
• When the Scriptures are read at Mass, God Himself is speaking
• It is good for all of us to prepare for Mass by reflecting on the readings BEFORE Mass

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Unit Quiz Answers

1. What is the name for Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium?

B. The Tripod of Truth

�2. What relationship does God want with us?�C. We should be friends with Him.

�3. What is the Magisterium?

D. The teaching authority of the Church 

�4. Who can forgive sins and restore our friendship with God?

A. God alone

�5. What is theology, and how is it different from other studies?

A. Theology is the study of God. It is more like a personal relationship than a set of facts.

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Unit Quiz Answers

6. What are the two parts of the Mass?

B. The Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist

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7. What does “alleluia” mean?

D. “Praise the Lord”

�8. Which is not a step in Lectio Divina?

A. Creatio

�9. Which is essential to a life of prayer?

B. Silence

�10. How is the Bible unlike any other book?

B. It is really a collection of books from many times and places.

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Unit Quiz Answers

11. What is the typical way to cite a Bible passage, for example, the book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2?

C. Genesis 1:2

�12. How does the book of Hebrews describe the Word of God?

B. Living and effective

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Review

• Old and New Testaments are equally the inspired Word of God
• Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing
• Contract: A binding agreement between two or more parties.
• Exchange of goods and services
• Set up obligations, but they are not personal obligations
• Based on human words
• Conditional relationship/can be dissolved
• Covenant: A sacred permanent bond of family relationship.
• Exchange of persons
• Personal obligations
• Based on God’s Word
• Permanently binding relationship/cannot be dissolved
• A mediator is someone who acts as a bridge between God and man, someone God makes His promise to, who represents all of mankind

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Review

• Writing Styles: Detailed vs Poetic
• Senses of Scripture
• Literal sense: plain meaning of the words the author chose
• Spiritual sense: helps us to understand how the realities and events of Scripture are themselves signs of our Faith
• allegorical: teaches us to understand how some of the events of the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus Christ
• The moral: teaches us how to live morally, or how to act in a right way, choosing right from wrong
• Anagogical: teaches us about our final destiny, which is Heaven, and the things of the end (death, judgment, Heaven, [Purgatory], and Hell)

Turn to page 24 in your workbook

Review (last class)

• The story of creation in Genesis is not meant to be science, but rather it communicates important truths about God and humanity.
• The doctrine of creation has great importance for our faith.
• Some scholars believe Genesis 1 and 2 represent two different stories of creation, while others believe they tell the same story from different perspectives.
• God made Adam and Eve in His image and likeness to live out the roles of priest, prophet, king, son or daughter of God, and spouse.
• Adam and Eve sinned because of the temptation of the devil.

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Fall of Man (homework)

• Adam failed to guard and protect the garden and everything in it
• Adam didn’t do much. The text tells us that “he was with her” the entire time that the serpent lied to Eve and threatened her
• Adam blamed Eve for making him eat the fruit and disobeying God.
• Adam was cursed to suffer in his work tilling the ground.
• Eve failed to resist the temptation of the serpent. She also failed to call upon God for help. 
• Eve failed to resist the temptation of the serpent. She also failed to call upon God for help. 
• Eve attempted to put up a fight. She tried to explain to the serpent what God’s actual command was, but she got the command confused. God said they could not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, unlike the serpent’s lie, which asked if God told her not to eat from any tree in the garden. 
• Eve blamed the serpent for making her eat the fruit and disobeying God.
• Eve was cursed to suffer in childbirth.

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Fall of Man (homework)

• God may not have stepped in to help because He was not asked to do so.  God respects our free will. 
• God allowed both Adam and Eve to experience the consequences of their actions, which is suffering in their individual male and female identities.
• God made Adam and Eve clothes to cover themselves, a sign that God still loves them.
• Accept reasoned answers.  God may have allowed the serpent to tempt them as a test of their faith and to allow them to exercise their free will.
• The serpent asked Eve if God told her not to eat from any tree in the Garden, which is a lie and twisting of the truth, although it is close to what God said. God, in fact, told Adam and Eve they could eat from any tree in the Garden except for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
• The serpent threatens Eve when he tells her that she certainly will not die. There is a veiled threat in that statement, as if he were telling her that she would die if she didn’t do as he said.

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Session 12: Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel

• Fulfilling priestly roll
• Cain made an offering to God out of his surplus, his “leftovers.”
• Abel offered God the first fruits of his flock, the best and first of his labors
• By the time we get to the story of Noah and the Great Flood, sin had infected the entire human race in only a few generations…
• … Gen6:5-6 – “When the LORD saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil, the LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.”

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Turn to page 83 in your workbook

Creation story accounts

• Genesis 1
• big-picture, “wide-screen” point of view
• not spend a lot of time focused on any one part
• tells us more about God Himself and how He works.
• Conditional relationship/can be dissolved
• Genesis 2:
• more focused, “zoomed-in” point of view of creation
• that skips over much of the big-picture information
• and focuses almost entirely on the creation of man and woman

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Session 13: Noah & the Great Flood

Turn to page 85 in your workbook

Announcements

1. Breakfast w/St Nick Sat, Dec 4^th , 9 – 11:30am
2. Next class not till Dec 6^th

O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin.

Amen

Closing Prayer