Church Hist./Ecclesiology Week 1 Review

How important do you, personally, think being loved and being able to love is for your happiness? (This question isn't graded)

• It's the most important thing

• Very important, but maybe not the most important thing

• Somewhat important, but definitely not the main thing

• It helps, but it's not that important

• I don't need to be loved or to love others in order to be happy

True or False: Every sin involves a failure to love someone.

• True

• False

True or False: God only wants what is good for us, but not everything he tells us to do (or avoid) is beneficial for us.

• True

• False

True or False: By definition, sin is a conscious rejection of what God wants for us.

• True

• False

True or False: Sin makes us less able to receive God's love for us because, by definition, sin is a rejection of that love.

• True

• False

True or False: Sin does not prevent us from being perfectly happy/fulfilled.

• True

• False

Which of the following are consequences of Adam and Eve's original sin? (select all that apply)

• They become afraid of God and hide from him

• They have to keep and till the garden of Eden

• They lose the grace of original holiness (for themselves and their descendants)

• Humanity becomes subject to bodily corruption and death

• The relationship between men and women becomes strained

Which of the following are consequences of the original sin of Adam and Eve? (select all that apply)

• The soul’s mastery over the body is shattered

• Humanity places itself (and the rest of creation) under the domination/dominion of Satan - i.e., the “Kingdom of Satan”

• They are forced to name the creatures of the earth

• Their harmony with creation, which is itself now subject to corruption and decay, is broken

• Adam and Eve's descendants inherit these consequences