Creation Man, Angels, the Fall

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CreationMan, Angels, the Fall
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Opening Prayer

• Our Father P. 175
• Scripture P. 24

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Ice Breaker

• Using Play Dough, create a new animal.
• Take a few minutes for a little show and tell
  about your animal.
• Where does it live?
• What does it eat?
• What is the coolest part of the animal?

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Why Did God Create the World?

• Was God lonely?
• No.
• Did God need us?
• No.
• Did God have to create the world the way it is?
• No, He could have created it any way he wanted,
  but He saw His Creation (as it is) as Good.
• God created out of love for us. He created the
  world to show forth his goodness and to share his
  happiness.

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What are some things we know about God?

• God is
• All Powerful
• All Good
• All Loving
• All Merciful
• All Present
• How are these qualities reflected in creation?

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Creation From Nothing

• When we made our animals, we required play dough.
• We can only make things from other things, for
  example we make a cake from ingredients.
• To Create is to make something from nothing. (ex
  nihilo in Latin).
• That is why God only needed to say, Let there be
  light and there was. He didnt need any
  building blocks.

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The Three Truths of Creations

• The most important part of the creation story is
  to understand these three truths
• God is the only God who is the Creator of all
  things.
• God created in an orderly way in order to share
  his love and goodness with man.
• Everything God created is good!

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God Created Man and Woman

• When we were created we had several gifts called
  preternatural gifts.
• Immortality We were created to live forever.
• Infused Knowledge of God and all that is
  necessary for life In the Garden of Eden there
  was no school! Paradise Indeed.
• Integrity Harmonious relationship with oneself,
  among mankind, and with nature. There was no
  carbon footprint in the Garden.
• Also we were given a supernatural gift of grace
  (a share in Gods life).
• Everything was provided for us at Creation.

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The Nature of Man

• We all have body and soul.
• Our bodies help us interact with the physical
  creation.
• We have an immortal soul which is Spiritual and
  cannot be seen.
• The soul has two powers, what are they?
• Intellect and free will.
• It is the spiritual gifts of intellect and free
  will that puts us at the top of the physical
  creation.

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Sanctifying Grace

• Grace is our ability to share in Gods life.
• When humanity became stained with original sin,
  we lost this gift.
• This is why we will all die, Gods life is life.
• Our goal on earth is to obtain grace, keep grace,
  grow in grace, and die with grace in our souls.
• Only with grace can we live forever with God in
  the Kingdom of Heaven as his children.
• This is every mans goal and the plan for each
  life.
• The Good News is that Jesus Christ poured out
  abundant grace for us on the Cross, that we might
  be filled with all that we need.

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Reading and Reviewing

• Read The Creation of Angels by yourselves.
• Then fill out page 11 in your workbook.

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The Devil is Bad

• The Song is by The Ws
• This Song is about the Fall and Sin
• This kids dancing is so much funnier than the
  original video!

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The Fall of Man Original Sin

• Original Sin was the first sin committed, which
  was to eat of the tree in the middle of the
  garden.
• God had told Adam ahead of time, that if this
  happened he would die.
• So instantly Adam and Eve were subject to death,
  their bodies became corruptible, and they became
  susceptible to illness and suffering.
• We now have an ignorance of things divine
• Concupiscence Interior Temptation to Sin
• Disharmony with nature and others
• Loss of Grace
• Loss of union with God.
• The preternatural gifts had all been tainted.

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God Still Loved Us

• Though God, who speaks only truth, had to allow
  Adam and Eve to die as He told them they would if
  they ate the fruit
• God still loved them and promised them a
  redeemer, someone to make right what went wrong.
• Without sanctifying grace we could no longer
  reach God and we were separated by a great divide
  too big for us to cross.
• Jesus, because of his death and resurrection has
  become our bridge back to the Father.

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A Redeemer?

• If you get an Itunes gift card, you plug in the
  number and press Redeem.
• To Redeem means to pay the price
• We could not pay the price for our sins because
  we had, and still have, nothing of great value.
• We could only offer animal sacrifices, imperfect
  prayers, and actions.
• We needed a perfect priest, perfect victim, and
  perfect love for God only Jesus could do this!

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Atoner?

• Man could not put himself back in union with God
  because he could not share in Gods life through
  grace.
• Jesus is one Divine Person with two nature. He
  is fully God and fully man. Because Jesus is
  God, he has Gods life in Him.
• With this life in Him, He won grace for man and
  opened the gates of heaven so that man could be
  saved.

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Savior?

• Man could not save himself from sin because of
  concupiscence, which is mans inclination towards
  sin.
• We could not restore perfect attraction to God
  when we shared an attraction to sin.
• Though we are not free from sin, Jesus saved us
  from the effects of our sins, and offers us
  Sanctifying Grace through the Sacraments.

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Closing Prayer

• P. 179 Guardian Angel Prayer