Chapter 2 Review Scriptures in Church

In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul wrote, ‘I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

• True

• False

The coming of Jesus was a clear sign that God was willing to settle for what had gone wrong with the world.

• True

• False

Adam and Eve had a ‘distorted image’ of God.

• True

• False

St. Paul taught that Jesus was the ‘New Adam’, who came to correct Adam’s tragic and sinful choice.

• True

• False

Sin is not a ‘universal’ aspect of human existence, but is particular only to some people.

• True

• False

In times of suffering and tribulation, the Israelites stopped singing of their trust in God.

• True

• False

The biblical accounts of Creation and the Fall are _____.

• scientific accounts

• historical accounts

• both scientific and historical accounts

• neither scientific nor historical accounts

• faith accounts

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that when, through disobedience, human beings had lost God’s friendship, _____.

• God did not turn away from us

• God gave up on us

• God tried to change our minds

• God became impatient

• God was tempted to turn away from us

The inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man and woman, and the harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the state of _____.

• nirvana

• original justice

• complete perfection

• original holiness

• total peace

The first sin was the choice _____..

• Adam made to eat the apple from the tree

• Eve made to convince Adam to eat the apple from the tree

• Adam made to allow ‘his trust in his Creator’ to ‘die in his heart’

• Adam made to listen to the Serpent

• Eve made to listen to the Serpent