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Please read Gen 3, and then answer the following question. You need to understand that the answer is very important, and absolutely true. It is the answer solemnly professed by the whole Catholic Church with all her heart [CCC 1008]. Here is the question:

Who is directly and specifically responsible for the entry of death into the world?

a.   God.
b.   Man.
c.   No one.


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One day, man will be able to go back in a time machine (or use some other tool or technique), and find the exact moment and place where the Fall occurred.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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If man can not, at least in principle, find the exact moment and place where the Fall occurred, then that means that the Fall is not a real event, but is just a charming story about why there is evil in the world.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Moving yourself closer to the idea that the Fall is not a real event, but just a story or metaphor for the existence of evil in the world,

a.   may possibly take you farther from Christ.
b.   will definitely take you closer to Christ.
c.   will definitely take you farther from Christ.


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It is literally true that man was there when the Fall occurred.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Jesus Christ, the Son of God, suffered physical and mental torture and an agonizing death on the Cross in order to save us from an abstract and metaphorical evil for which no one is actually responsible.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Adam and Eve's Fall literally and permanently damaged the entire nature of human history, so that it can never be what it was before their sin.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Adam and Eve's Fall literally and permanently damaged the entire nature of the universe, so that it can never be what it was before their sin.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Jesus's death and resurrection literally re-created the entire nature of human history, so that it fully includes all the terrible consequences of the Fall and of all sin and yet can be even better than what it was destined to be before the Fall.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Jesus's death and resurrection literally re-created the entire nature of the universe, so that it fully includes all the terrible consequences of the Fall and of all sin and yet can be even better than what it was destined to be before the Fall.

a.   Maybe.
b.   No.
c.   Yes.


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Knowing that the sacraments are real and the New Testament is true

a.   expands and clarifies the true meaning of the Old Testament.
b.   makes the meaning conveyed by the Old Testament no longer true.
c.   warps and distorts the true meaning of the Old Testament.


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Read Ex 33:7-11. The Lord, God Most High, creator of heaven and earth, would speak to Moses

a.   as a man speaks to his friend.
b.   only in very unclear images.
c.   with great and terrifying signs.


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The Old Covenant is the Christian name for the covenant by which God formed Israel as his people by freeing them from slavery in Egypt and, on Mount Sinai and through Moses, gave them his law. The Church teaches that the Old Covenant is

a.   the final covenant before the New Covenant established by God's only Son.
b.   the oldest covenant of all the covenants that God has made with man.
c.   the only covenant of all the covenants that God has made with man.


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You now know that the Holy Father and bishops profess that, in effect, there are even ''older'' covenants than the Old Covenant, which also remain in force and are not revoked. Creation itself is the beginning of the covenants, followed by the covenant with Noah. Thus too, the Old Covenant with Israel begun with Abraham remains in force and has never been revoked, the Jews remain a people chosen and delivered by God in the Exodus, and their observance of the Law he gave them on Mount Sinai through Moses does keep the covenant God made with them and ''prophesies and presages the work of liberation from sin which will be fulfilled in Christ.'' [CCC 1964] <<


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Read Ex 25:10-22. The Ark of the Covenant was

a.   a gathering place to worship God.
b.   a wooden box lined with gold.
c.   a wooden ship lined with gold.


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Read Ex 25:16. Now read in the book of Deuteronomy, Deut 10:1-3. The ''testimony'' that was placed in the Ark of the Covenant was

a.   eyewitness accounts of the theophany on Mount Sinai and elsewhere.
b.   the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed.
c.   the writings of the Bible that the people of Israel had up to that time.


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Read Ex 25:8-9. Now read in the New Testament, the letter to the Hebrews, Heb 9:1-7. The Jewish Tabernacle was

a.   a large stone structure.
b.   a large tent.
c.   a large wooden ark.


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What is the ''Holy of Holies''?

a.   The entire Tabernacle of the Lord, where the Ark of the Covenant was.
b.   The place from which Moses stood to tell people what God wished them to do.
c.   The small room within the Tabernacle where the Ark of the Covenant was.


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Read Leviticus, Lev 16:3-34. Once a year Aaron (and the High Priests that follow him) are to

a.   make atonement for the sins of the nation.
b.   offer unceasing praise to the LORD.
c.   show the LORD a sign of the people's purity.


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''Holy of Holies'' is a Hebrew way of saying ''the holiest place of all.'' The High Priest entered the Holy of Holies, the place of God's presence on earth, once a year on the Day of Atonement, to offer blood sacrifices for sin. The Catholic Church sees in this a type of Christ, the great High Priest, who pours out his blood for the forgiveness of sins. <<


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