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The Church

The Church. Sacrament of Salvation. The Church. Chapter 1. Chapter 1. God Prepares the Way for His Church in the Old Testament. The Church as present in creation from the beginning God’s creative act Man’s vocation God’s covenants in the history of salvation The covenant with Adam

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The Church

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  1. The Church Sacrament of Salvation

  2. The Church Chapter 1

  3. Chapter 1 God Prepares the Way for His Church in the Old Testament

  4. The Church as present in creation from the beginning God’s creative act Man’s vocation God’s covenants in the history of salvation The covenant with Adam Original Sin and the Protoevangelium The covenant with Noah Chapter Objectives The student will be able to understand: God’s covenant with Abraham Isaac as a type of Christ What God did for Israel through Moses The pattern of Jewish history before the kingship David’s kingdom The Davidic covenant Israel’s history after David

  5. Keys to Chapter 1 Man’s vocation is to live in truth and holiness as a son of God with dominion over creation. After the fall of man, God prepared the restoration of the human family through progressive covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David. These covenants paved the way for Christ and his Church.

  6. For Discussion: Why were we created? How did God prepare his people for the Church? How was the Church foreshadowed in the Old Testament? What is the meaning of covenant? What covenants did God establish with the Israelites? What were the primary features of the Old Testament Covenant, and how did these features point the way to the New Covenant?

  7. Guided Exercise Based on the six questions listed under “In this chapter” (p. 3), write on the one with which you are most familiar.

  8. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Lesson Objectives - The Church as present in creation from the beginning God’s creative act Man’s vocation

  9. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Basic Questions - Why do we go back to God’s creative act to understand the Church? • Because God had the Church in mind from all eternity and gradually unfolded her meaning, it is necessary to study God’s plan for creation from the beginning.

  10. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Basic Questions - What does the creation account in Genesis tell us about creation and man’s place in it? • God created the universe as a perfect work with man as its pinnacle, creating him in God’s own image.

  11. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Basic Questions - What is man’s original vocation in relationship to God? • Man’s primeval vocation is communion with God in a filial relationship.

  12. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - What are the stages of the gradual unfolding of God’s plan of salvation? • God established covenants with his people and revealed his moral law to prepare for the coming of the Savior, then he sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to reveal the fullness of truth and reconcile God and man through the Cross. This mission is continued by the Church.

  13. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What was God’s plan for humanity from all eternity? • To draw all people into communion with himself.

  14. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • How did God react to Original Sin? • He promised a redeemer.

  15. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - How do Christ and the Church relate to this promise? • Christ is the promised Redeemer and the Church is Christ’s instrument.

  16. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - What are some of the names of the Church? • The Family of God, the People of God, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Kingdom of Heaven, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, the Bride of Christ, and the Sacrament of Salvation.

  17. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - What makes the Church entirely Christ-centered? • Apart from her communion in Christ and her intimate sharing in the Divine Life of the Blessed Trinity, the Church has no life.

  18. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What are the two natures of the Church? • The Church is a divine institution as the Mystical Body of Christ. She is also a human institution, incorporating men into herself through Baptism.

  19. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • How did God bring creation into being? • He created by the power of his Word.

  20. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • In Sacred Scripture, what does the number three connote? • It signifies perfection or completeness.

  21. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • Why does the creation story divide the act of creation into two corresponding three-day periods? • It is a way of saying that the act of creation was complete and perfect.

  22. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What forms are created on the first three days? • God created (1) day and night, (2) sky and sea, and (3) dry land and plants.

  23. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What rules over day and night? • The sun and moon.

  24. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What rules over the sky and sea? • Birds and fish.

  25. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What rules over dry land and plants? • Animals and man.

  26. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What rules over everything in creation? • Man.

  27. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Graphic Organizer - Complete the following table to better see the structure of the creation story in Genesis.

  28. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Guided Exercise - Create a bullet-point list of ideas that “created in the image of God” means.

  29. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • According to CCC 1, why did God create man? • To make him share in God’s own blessed life.

  30. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What does “image and likeness” mean when it is used in relation to Seth? • Seth received his nature from Adam his father.

  31. Man’s Vocation from the Beginning - Focus Question - • What does this tell us “image and likeness” means in relation to Adam? • Adam received his nature from God. Unlike the rest of creation, Adam was a beloved son of the Father.

  32. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Lesson Objectives - God’s covenants in the history of salvation The covenant with Adam Original Sin and the Protoevangelium The covenant with Noah

  33. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Basic Questions - What is a covenant? • God prepared people for the advent of the Church through salvation history, a series of progressive covenants, or solemn agreements, between God and men. The covenants were with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David.

  34. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Basic Questions - What was the covenant with Adam? • The covenant with Adam was for man to live in communion with God, other persons, and all of creation. Man was to enjoy dominion over creation.

  35. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Basic Questions - What are Original Sin and the Protoevangelium? • Adam and Eve broke the original covenant and brought the consequences of Original Sin into the world, yet God immediately promised a future savior.

  36. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Basic Questions - What was the covenant with Noah? • God made a second covenant with Noah, after he cleansed the world of wicked humanity, not to again destroy the world by flood.

  37. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Guided Exercise - Conduct a think/pair/share using the following question: Does human history confirm what Genesis says, that man has dominion over every created thing on earth?

  38. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Guided Exercise - • Complete a focused reading on the paragraphs beginning, “One of St. Irenæus’…” and “St. Irenæus taught…” (p. 7) using the following question: • What was the main idea of St. Irenæus’s teachings on covenants?

  39. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • From whom did St. Irenaeus receive his Christian formation? • He learned from the future martyr St. Polycarp, a disciple of the Apostle John.

  40. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • How did someone in present-day Turkey become the bishop of what is now a French city? • St. Irenaeus went to Lyons as a missionary and was made bishop after the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius martyred Lyons’s first bishop.

  41. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What was the first Sabbath, or day of rest? • The seventh day of creation, when, according to Genesis, God rested, blessing this day and making it holy.

  42. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What is God’s covenant with creation? • God made a covenant with all of creation and specifically with mankind; God gave himself as a Father to Adam, and Adam, in turn, was made to give of himself, through his obedience as a son, back to God.

  43. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What is salvation history? • It is the biblical record of how God’s plan of redemption in Christ has unfolded.

  44. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • How does the idea of covenant relate to salvation history? • Salvation history can be seen as a series of covenants between God and man.

  45. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What is a covenant? • It is a solemn agreement between God and man—an agreement that involves mutual commitments and promises.

  46. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What are the covenants in salvation history which prepare God’s people for the New and Everlasting Covenant in Christ Jesus? • The covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David.

  47. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • Why was the Sabbath created? • God rested on the seventh day, so man must rest from labor (cf. CCC 2172). • Extension: • God created the Sabbath to remind all people they are created out of God’s love so as to enter into communion with him.

  48. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • Why did the people of Israel keep the Sabbath? • It was God’s command and a sign of their covenant with God who created in six days and rested on the seventh.

  49. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • How do Christians observe the Sabbath? • By prayer and worship of God on the Lord’s Day.

  50. The Covenants with Adam and Noah - Focus Question - • What tasks did God give Adam? • Adam was to work, worship, and be fruitful and multiply.

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