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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Introduction to Catholicism
Term | Definition |
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adoration | worship and honor given to god as creator and sustainer of all that is. |
angels | created beings who are pure spirits with intelligence and free will, but without,bodies, who act as Gods messengers |
atheism | the belief that there is no god |
Baptism | the sacrament of new life in God and of incorporation into the Church performed with water and the words, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."; the first Sacrament of Initiation |
creationism | the theory that the Genesis story in the bible is literally true, that God created the Universe and everything in it in six days and out of nothing |
evoluion | a process of continuous change from a simple form to a more complex form. As a theory of the development of life forms, evolution includes the idea, for example, that apes and humans have a common ancestor |
idolatry | worship of a false god |
liturgy | the official public prayer of the church through which Christ continues the work of Redemption through the church's celebration of the Paschal mystery |
Matrimony | a Sacrament at service of Communion, the sacrament that celebrates the sacred covenant between baptized man and women who promise to be faithful to one another until death. Marriage is ordered to the mutual love of the spouses and to the making of a child |
monotheism | the belief in god only |
original sin | the first decision by human to disobey god. All humans (except Jesus and Mary) are born with original sin, a wounded human nature that is tempted to chose wrong over right |
polytheism | the belief in many gods |
sacrament | an effective sin accomplished through Jesus of freeing eople from sin and restoring them to friendship with God |
Stewardship | the responsibility God gave humans to take care of the earth and everything in it |
Ten Commandments | the ten fundamental moral laws given by god to his people and recorded in the Old testament |