CLE

• simplicity


  value in truth free from useless complexities and any pretension
• what are manifestation of lack of simplicity in life?


  extravagance, vanity, consumerism, materialism, and greed
• extravagant person - spends more than what is necessary
• vanity - undergo aesthetic surgery fitting themselves to the conventional standards of external beauty
• how can one be simple and contented?

  -being thankful and appreciative of who he/she is

  -having right perspective over material goods, and believing in god as Father and Provider
• What commandments of God direct us toward simplicity and contentment?

  -seventh commandment and tenth commandments call us to be simple and contented.
• The seventh commandment - “You shall not steal,” (Exodus 20:15)
• the tenth commandment - “You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods,” (Exodus 20:17).
• What other offenses are indirectly against life?


  smoking, inordinate drinking of liquors, and use of illegal drugs.
• What is the Christian understanding of human work?

  -helps develop one’s attitudes, skills, and values

  -key to promote social justice
• insatiable – impossible to satisfy
• usury – lending with unreasonable interest
• collateral – pledge of a specific property to a lender
• expulsion – moderation in or abstinence from of consumption of alcoholic liquor
• chastity - acceptance of who we are as a man and woman understanding of ur being embodied spirits
• carnal - related to the body or flesh
• sexuality - refers to the whole person as man or woman
• sexual complementary - completing of fulfilling each other opposite sex of what is lacking
• chastity - means purity in our thoughts, words, and actions