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8 September 2017 Chapter 2Directed Reading Guide -The Fall & Promise of Savior Circle Period: 2 6

Jesus Christ: Source of Our SalvationPrinted Full Name: ______

Directions: Read through the chapter and fill in the missing information. All the questions run sequential to the chapter. If a true/false statement is false, correct it.

Pages 30 – 31Creation and De-Creation

  1. “______” takes place because of human ______and sin, causing ______from self, others, God, and creation itself. It all started with the ______of Adam and Eve.
  2. God never ______sinful humanity. From the ______God promises a Savior or ______who would make all things new again. The prophet Isaiah told the Chosen People to remain hopeful because the Lord is ______.
  3. What is Original Sin?

Page 32 The Effects of Original Sin

  1. True or False? God created us good from the start and we were meant to be happy – created to share in God’s own life.
  1. What are some of the ways human beings suffer as an effect of loss of Original Holiness and Original Justice?
  1. What is sin according to the CCC?

Pages 32 – 38 Was Original Sin a Historical Event?

  1. True or False? We are not required to interpret the story about the Fall of Adam and Eve in Genesis in a literal way, but we must believe that there was a real historical event behind it.
  1. Divine ______reached its fulfillment in the Life, ______, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ—only then could God’s People understand the full ______of Original Sin. We must know Christ as the source of ______in order to know Adam as the source of ______.
  2. What is temptation?
  1. Satan is a ______who like other demons, were created ______by a loving God. They became ______by making a free ______in which they radically and irrevocably ______God and his reign.
  2. The CCC explains that the devil is a ______and the father of lies. He did great harm by ______and tempting Adam and Eve—deceiving man to let his ______in his creator die in his heart and abusing his ______by disobeying God’s ______.
  3. Through their own ______, Adam and Eve tried to make themselves ______. They sinned by preferring ______to God. They wanted to be ______but not in accord with his own ______for them.
  4. True or False? The sin of Adam and Eve did bring them knowledge, namely the knowledge of goodness and justice.
  1. What are four outcomes that resulted from Original Sin explained in the CCC?
  1. True or False? All humans have inherited a fallen human nature, are deprived of Original Holiness, Original Justice, and are subject to death.
  1. True or False? According to the CCC, Original Sin is committed, not contracted.
  1. What is concupiscence?
  1. The ______, in Genesis 3:15, is also known as the “______” predicts of future Messiah and ______, a battle between the serpent and the woman, and a ______of a descendant of hers.
  2. Christian ______sees the Protoevangelium as the announcement of the ______, the Son of God. Jesus Christ destroyed the works of the ______by becoming obedient unto death. His ______made up for Adam’s ______.
  3. Who was the first person to benefit in a unique way from Christ’s victory over sin?
  1. All ______comes through the Body of Christ, the ______, from Christ. We enter into the life of Christ when we receive the Sacrament of ______. Water symbolizes death to an ______of sin and the cleansing and rebirth into a ______of Christ.
  2. What are several reasons why did God not prevent the first man from sinning?
  1. A ______is a way of discerning ______, events, or things in the Old Testament that ______and serve as a ______of the fulfillment of God’s plan in the Person of ______.

Pages 38 – 41 God Remains Faithful in Times of Sin

  1. Which three Genesis stories demonstrate that God never abandoned the creatures he made?
  1. The story of the first ______of Adam and Eve reveals how sin leads to ______. God’s punishment is swift and ______, but even the commission of such an evil crime as the ______of one’s brother did not mean ______by the Lord.
  2. What might be a possible explanation of the repetitions and discrepancies of the account of the Great Flood?
  1. What were the biblical authors stressing by including both version of the Flood story?
  1. Genesis tells us that the purpose of the Flood was to cleanse the world of ______and depravity. It is a reminder to everyone that God continues to ______despite its sinful nature, which demands ______and punishment.
  2. What is the sin involved in the story of the Tower of Babel?
  1. True or False? With all of God’s punishments comes some good.

Pages 41 – 45 Covenants in the Old Testament

  1. In the ancient world, ______between persons were ______to do, or refrain from doing, something. The first covenant in the Old Testament was between ______.

September 2017 Chapter 2Directed Reading Guide -The Fall & Promise of Savior Circle Period: 2 6

Jesus Christ: Source of Our SalvationPrinted Full Name: ______

Directions: Read through the chapter and fill in the missing information. All the questions run sequential to the chapter. If a true/false statement is false, correct it.

Pages 41 – 45 Covenants in the Old Testament

  1. The word ______is a synonym for covenant. The covenants in ______had two sacred parts: the ______and the ______to the promise.
  2. God made three other covenants in the Old Testament. Explain the nature of each of these covenants:
  • The Covenant with Abraham:
  • The Covenant with Moses on Mt.Sinai:
  • The Covenant with David:
  1. ______is the New Covenant foretold by the prophet ______—a covenant that would be written in the ______of humankind. The New Covenant is sealed in his ______; his sacrifice is what saves and ______us.
  2. Abraham heard God’s ______, believed it, and ______. He dramatically prefigured the humble ______who heard God’s call, ______, and obeyed God’s will. Through her ______, Jesus Christ, all people of the earth are indeed ______.
  3. True or False? The covenant God made with Abraham extended to his descendants.
  1. What are the provisions of the covenant God made with Abraham?
  1. What was the sign of God’s covenant with Abraham?
  1. In ______we become members of the ______. Our membership and ______in the Church is an extension of the covenant God made with ______. Christ’s saving Death has ______us before God, bringing about ______.
  2. The Book of ______tells how a new Egyptian king enslaved the ______. After two ______years of suffering, God appointed ______to lead the Israelites out of ______, an event known as the ______from Egypt.
  3. The ______began a forty-year sojourn in the Sinai desert to the land of ______, the land promised by God to ______. By means of the ______and his instructions to them while in the desert, God formed Israel as ______.
  4. What do the events of the Exodus prove again about God?
  1. The ______summarizes the Law and expresses what humans know in their ______, and deduce by ______, to be write or wrong. This is known as the ______—the principles of morality that extend to the human race in all ______and at all ______.
  2. True or False? The Israelites’ neglect off the Law deserved punishment, but throughout their history God did not punish them.
  1. What was the key promise of God’s covenant with David?
  1. God promised that the future ______would descend from the house of ______. For their part, the Chosen People were to live the Law as a ______of the one true, saving God. God always remained ______to his promises despite the ______of the people.

Pages 46 – 50 God Remains Faithful to His Promises

  1. True or False? Under David’s sons the united kingdom divided into two: the northern kingdom of Israel consisting of ten tribes, and the southern kingdom of Judah consisting of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah.
  1. What was the message of the prophets during the time of political turmoil and religious backsliding?
  1. The prophet ______proclaimed that true ______of God required concrete deeds manifested to the ______. He also chided the Israelites on their many sins and ______that unless people ______, the nation would be ______.
  2. The prophet ______echoed the theme of ______and used props in dramatic scenes to try to get the ______of the people. He also balanced his dire ______with a message of ______for the people.
  3. The prophet ______also preached both ______and hope. He promised that a new ______would make a covenant of ______with the people and predicted a time when God would ______.
  4. The original prophet ______of Jerusalem preached during the collapse of the ______kingdom and the moral breakdown of the ______kingdom. He also prophesied that God would give a sign: “The ______shall be with child and bear a ______, and shall name him ______.”
  5. True or False? Christians see in Isaiah’s prophecy about Immanuel a reference to the promised Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth.
  1. Deutero-Isaiah foretold to the ______people that Babylonia was on the verge of ______. Cyrus of Persia defeated the ______and permitted the exiles to return home. At this time a ______of the Jewish people returned to ______and rebuilt and rededicated the ______.
  2. Second Isaiah reminds the Israelites that God called them to: ______
    ______
  1. True or False? Christians see in the “Servant Songs” prophetic images of Jesus, the servant whose sufferings redeemed all people.
  1. The centuries prior to the birth of ______saw Persian rule give way to the Greeks, and then the ______, and finally the Romans. God’s People fought the efforts of some foreign ______to impose Greek ______by Temple worship and by meeting in ______.
  2. What caused the revolt by the Maccabean family?
  1. In 63 BC, the ______imposed their rule on ______when they appointed ______to govern. Herod was responsible for the reconstruction of the ______. It was shortly before his death that ______was born.

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