Catholic Teaching - Level 1
The answers to these questions are taken from the "offical" Catechism Of The Catholic Church. Some answers may present difficulties for a number of individuals, when it comes to understanding them; or accepting their consequences in relation to their current personal circumstances. However through prayer, study and a humble realization of the teaching authority of the Church any difficulties (which very often are fleeting) can be overcome. As the Truth becomes clearer, it helps free us from the weakness and evil that lies in our own hearts; as well as exposing to us the lies the world whispers in Read moreour ears every day.
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Sin is a failure on the part of a person to realise their full potential it indicates an area in which we could be more Christ like in the future.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
386. Sin is present in human history; any attempt to ignore it or to give this dark reality other names would be futile. To try to understand what sin is, one must first recognize the profound relation of man to God, for only in this relationship is the evil of sin unmasked in its true identity as humanity's rejection of God and opposition to him, even as it continues to weigh heavy on human life and history.Rate this question:
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Religious and Married people are especially close to Jesus because they play a vital role in His church. The single have a secondary role to play in the Church supportive in it's nature of those with a vocation.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
1658 We must also remember the great number of single persons who, because of the particular circumstances in which they have to live - often not of their choosing - are especially close to Jesus' heart and therefore deserve the special affection and active solicitude of the Church, especially of pastors. Many remain without a human family often due to conditions of poverty. Some live their situation in the spirit of the Beatitudes, serving God and neighbor in exemplary fashion. the doors of homes, the "domestic churches," and of the great family which is the Church must be open to all of them. "No one is without a family in this world: the Church is a home and family for everyone, especially those who 'labor and are heavy laden.'"Rate this question:
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It is impossible for us to know with certainty that God exists hence we are called to have faith regardless of the facts that surround us.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
47 The Church teaches that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty from his works, by the natural light of human reason (cf. Vatican Council I, can. 2 # 1: DS 3026),Rate this question:
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It is the duty of all Christians to read scripture and interpret the Word of God for their own life circumstances. Then to act out their lives in the light of their personal interpretation; this way the many paths become one.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
97 "Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God" (DV 10) in which, as in a mirror, the pilgrim Church contemplates God, the source of all her riches.
100 The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him.Rate this question:
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Non Catholic Christian Churches venerate Divine Scriptures more so than the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church puts more emphasis on the veneration of the Body of Christ in the Eucharist.
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True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
141 "The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of the Lord" (DV 21): both nourish and govern the whole Christian life. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (⇒ Ps 119:105; cf. ⇒ Is 50:4).Rate this question:
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At death Catholics believe that the spirit of a person escapes their mortal body and if free from sin becomes an angel in Heaven with God to enjoy eternal happiness.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
1052 "We believe that the souls of all who die in Christ's grace . . . are the People of God beyond death. On the day of resurrection, death will be definitively conquered, when these souls will be reunited with their bodies" (Paul VI, CPG # 28).Rate this question:
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In the wake of the establishment of the Protestant churches, they discarded key elements of 1500 years of Catholic Teaching and Tradition as well as complete books from the Bible. Hence the difference in the number of books in a Protestant "Bible" and Catholic Bible.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
138 The Church accepts and venerates as inspired the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New.Rate this question:
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