The Old Testament in the Heart of the Catholic
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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
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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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