RELIGION FINALS

• Three words to designate sin:

  • Pesha (breaking the covenant)
  • Awon (Iniquity or Guilt)
  • Hattah (Misses the mark/target)
• Sin is violating the good that conscience commands, hurting one’s freedom. It is some kind of addiction that is contagious.
• Pesha - An act of rebellion or unfaithfulness, with strong overtones of hostility and enmity.
• Awon - State of sinner who has transgressed the will of God and now stands in a condition of Discord or disharmony with that will. 
• Hattah - It means that a person is now adrift in a trackless desert. It is deliberate turning away from God.
• God forgives you always and wants to restore you to the fullness of life.

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• How did Jesus demonstrated the presence of God's kingdom?

  • healing
  • setting people from evil
  • forgiveness of sin
• Give the four common misunderstanding about forgiveness

  1. Forgiveness is not easy
  2. Forgiveness cannot be rushed
  3. Forgiveness never means forgetting
  4. Forgiveness is not weakness
• to err is human and to forgive is divine
• Three moral aspects of moral act.

  • nature of act
  • intention
  • circumstances
• • Conversion is a natural consequence of sinfulness for the person who has realized his/her wretched state.
• • Repentance or conversion is hindered by self-righteousness
• Metanoia - Greek of “change of heart”
• Recite the ten commandments of God
• The seven capital sins - sometimes called the seven deadly sins are referred to as capital sins not because they're necessarily worse than other sins but because they are the bases of other sins and their chief sources.
• Pride - original and worst of the seven; labeled as the mother of all sins
• Give the seven capital sins

  1. Pride
  2. Covetousness or Greed
  3. Lust
  4. Anger
  5. Gluttony
  6. Envy
  7. Sloth
• Gluttony - Obsessive anticipation of meals and overindulgence in delicacies and costly foods.
• Mortal sin – destroys charity in a heart of man... it turns man away from God who is his ultimate end.
• Mortal sin is also called grave offenses/sin

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• Venial sin – allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds people.
• Mortal Sin is the same as Venial Sin

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• Corporal Works of Mercy

  1. Feed the hungry.
  2. Give drink to the thirsty.
  3. Clothe the naked.
  4.  Visit the imprisoned.
  5. Shelter the homeless.
  6. Visit the sick.
  7. Bury the dead.
• Spiritual works of Mercy

  1. Counsel the doubtful
  2. Instruct the ignorant
  3. Admonish sinners
  4. Comfort the afflicted
  5. Forgive offenses
  6. Bear wrongs patiently
  7. Pray for the living and the dead.
• Corporal Works of Mercy - They are “charitable actions by which we help our neighbors in their bodily needs".
• Spiritual works of mercy - guide us to "help our neighbor in their spiritual needs”.  
• Conversion is to change.

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• Why should one be converted?
• Hindrances to Conversion

  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Temptation
  • Preoccupation
  • Fear
• Sacrament of Penance – one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and is God’s gift to us so that any sin committed after Baptism can be forgiven
• call to conversion is the central theme of the preaching for the coming of the Messiah.
• Contrition – sincere sorrow for having offended God and the hatred for the sins we have created with a firm purpose to never sin again.
• God will forgive sins even though we don't have true contrition.

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• (Kind of contrition) Perfect contrition – if we are sorry for our sins because we love God
• (Kind of contrition) Imperfect contrition – when we are sorry for our sins because we are afraid of punishment
• What is freedom?


  Freedom is the capacity to act or not to act.
• The truth is the object of the reason.
• The good is the object of the will
• “Agere sequitur esse” – latin of action follows being
• What we do today does not affect what we can be tomorrow.

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