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FROM WHO DO WE LEARN TO KNOW, LOVE AND SERVE GOD?
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| We learn to know, love, and serve God from Jesus Christ, the son of God, who teaches us through the Catholic Church. |
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WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD?
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| Some of the perfections of God are: God is eternal, all-good, all-knowing, all-present, and almighty |
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CAN WE KNOW BY OUR NATURAL REASON THAT THERE IS A GOD?
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We can know by our natural reason that there is a God, for natural reason tells us that the world we see about us could have been made only by a self-existing Being, all-wise, and almighty.
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CAN WE KNOW GOD IN ANY OTHER WAY THAN BY OUR NATURAL REASON?
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| Besides knowing God by our natural reason, we can also know Him from supernatural revelation that is, from the truths found in Sacred Scripture and in Tradition, which God himself has revealed to us. |
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HOW ARE THE THREE DIVINE PERSONS, THOUGH REALLY DISTINCT FROM ONE ANOTHER, ONE AND THE SAME GOD?
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| The three divine Persons, though really distinct from one another, are one and the same God because all have one and the same divine nature |
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CAN WE FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW THE THREE DIVINE PERSONS, THOUGH REALLY DISTICT FROM ONE ANOTHER ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD?
We cannot fully understand how the three divine Persons, though really distinct from one another are one and the same God because this is a supernatural mystery.
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| We cannot fully understand how the three divine Persons, though really distinct from one another are one and the same God because this is a supernatural mystery. |
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DO ALL TEMPTATIONS COME FROM BAD ANGELS?
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| Some temptations come from the bad angels; but other temptations come from ourselves and from the persons and things about us. |
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CAN WE ALWAYS RESIST TEMPTATIONS?
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| We can always resist temptations, because no temptation can force us into sin, and because God will always help us if we ask Him. |
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WHAT WAS THE CHIEF GIFT BESTOWED ON ADAM AND EVE BY GOD?
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The chief gift bestowed on Adam and Eve by God was sanctifying grace, which made them children of God and gave them the right to heaven.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO ADAM AND EVE ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SIN?
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| On account of their sin, Adam and Eve lost sanctifying grace, the right to heaven, and their special gifts; they became subject to death, to suffering, and to a strong inclination to evil, and they were driven from the Garden of Paradise. |
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WHAT THREE THINGS ARE NEXESSARY TO MAKE A SIN MORTAL?
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To make a sin mortal, these three things are necessary:
1) Serious matter
2)Sufficient reflection
3)Full consent of the will |
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| A sin can be venial in two ways: First, when the evil done is not seriously wrong; Second, when the evil done is seriously wrong, but the sinner sincerely believes it is only slightly wrong, or does not give full consent to it. |
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DID GOD ABANDON MEN AFTER ADAM FELL TO SIN?
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| God did not abandon man after Adam fell into sin, but promised to send into the world a Savior to free man from his sins and to reopen to him the gates of heaven. |
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WHAT IS MEANT BY THE INCARNATION?
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| By the Incarnation is meant that the Son of God, retaining His divine nature, took to Himself a human nature, that is, a body and soul like ours. |
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WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF CHRIST?
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| From the sufferings and death of Christ we learn God's love for man and the evil of sin, for which God, who is all-just, demands such great satisfaction |
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WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY IN THE APOSTLES' CREED THAT CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL?
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| When we say that Christ descended into hell we mean that, after He died, the soul of Christ descended into a place or state of rest called the Bosom of Abraham, where the souls of the just were waiting for Him. |
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WHAT ARE THE CHIEF EFFECTS OF SANCTIFYING GRACE?
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The chief effects of sanctifying are: First, it makes us holy and pleasing to God; Second, it makes us adopted children of God; fourth it gives us the right to heaven.
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WHY IS SANCTIFYING GRACE NECESSARY FOR SALVATION?
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| Sanctifying grace is necessary for salvation because it is the supernatural life which alone enables us to attain the supernatural happiness of heaven. |
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IS ACTUAL GRACE NECESSARY FOR ALL WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE USE OF REASON?
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| Actual Grace is necessary for all who have attained the use of reason, because without it we cannot long resist the power of temptation or perform other action which merit a reward in heaven. |
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WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPAL WAYS OF OBTAINING GRACE?
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| The principal ways of obtaining grace are prayer and the sacrament especially the Holy Eucharist. |
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