3. Adam and Eve: disobedience, pride
Genesis 3:The Fall of Man
4. Adam and Eve turned away from God
their Creator in disobedience and pride
Rejected God’s friendship
Wanted to be “like God”
Serpent was the image of the devil, of evil
Demons were created naturally good by
God but became evil because of their
doing = fallen angels
The Fall of Man
8. 397. Man, tempted by the devil, let his
trust in his Creator die in his heart
and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed
God’s command. This is what man’s first
sin consisted of.278 All subsequent sin
would be disobedience toward God and
lack of trust in his goodness.
CCC 397, 1440, 1850, 2850
9. 1440 Sin is before all else an offense
against God, a rupture of communion with
him. At the same time it damages
communion with the Church. For this
reason conversion entails both God’s
forgiveness and reconciliation with the
Church, which are expressed and
accomplished liturgically by the sacrament
of Penance and Reconciliation
CCC 1440
10. is an offense against God: “Against you, you
alone, have I sinned, and done that which is
evil in your sight.”122 Sin sets itself against
God’s love for us and turns our hearts away
from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a
revolt against God through the will to become
“like gods,”123 knowing and determining good
and evil. Sin is thus “love of oneself even to
contempt of God.”124 In this proud self-
exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the
obedience of Jesus, which achieves our
salvation.
CCC 1850
11. 1857 For a sin to be mortal, three
conditions must together be met: “Mortal
sin is sin whose object is grave matter
and which is also committed with full
knowledge and deliberate consent.
CCC 1857
12. 2850 The last petition to our Father is also
included in Jesus’ prayer: “I am not asking
you to take them out of the world, but I ask
you to protect them from the evil one.”163 It
touches each of us personally, but it is always
“we” who pray, in communion with the whole
Church, for the deliverance of the whole
human family. The Lord’s Prayer continually
opens us to the range of God’s economy of
salvation. Our interdependence in the drama
of sin and death is turned into solidarity in
the Body of Christ, the “communion of saints.
CCC 2850
13. Man turned away from God in
disobedience and pride
Rejection of God’s friendship
Devil and demons were created naturally
good by God but they became evil by
their own doing= fallen angels
CFC 372
14. In rebelling against God, man and woman
destroyed their original harmony with:
Each other (they realized they were
naked)
Others (Cain’s murder of his brother Abel)
Their community (tower of Babel)
Nature (“cursed be the ground...”)
CFC 373
15. What is the origin of the condition of
universal sinfulness?
“Not God, but the original man and
woman, are the source of moral evil.”
God is our Savior.
CFC 374
16. Was it part of God’s plan that man should
suffer and die?
God does not want men to suffer and die.
God’s original idea for man was paradise:
life forever and peace between God and
man and their environment, between man
and woman.
YouCat 66
17. What is sin?
At the core of sin is a rejection of God and
the refusal to accept his love. This is
manifested in a disregard for his
commandments.
Separation from God=separation from the
source of life
YouCat 67
18. Original sin? What does the Fall of Adam
and Eve have to do with us?
Sin in the strict sense implies guilt for
which one is personally responsible.
Therefore, the term “original sin”
refers, not to a personal sin, but rather to
ther disastrous, fallen state of mankind
into which the individual is born, even
before he himself sins by a free decision.
YouCat 68
19. Are we compelled to sin by original sin?
No, Man, though, is deeply wounded by
original sin. In fact, however, we sin again
and again, because we are weak, ignorant
and easily misled. A sin committed under
compulsion, moreover, would be no
sin, because sin always involves a free
decision.
YouCat 69
20. How does God draw us out of the whirlpool
of evil?
God does not just look on as man
gradually destroys himself and he world
around him through the chain reaction of
sin. He sends us Jesus Christ, the Savior
and Redeemer, who snatches us from the
power of sin.
YouCat 70
21. What are the positive effects of confession?
Confession reconciles the sinner with God
and the Church.
YouCat 239
22. What is a sin in the first place?
A sin is a word, deed, or intention by
which man deliberately and voluntarily
offends against the true order of
things, as God’s loving providence has
arranged them.
YouCat 315
23. How can we distinguish serious sins (mortal
sins) from less serious (venial) sins ?
Serious sin destroys the divine power of
love in a person’s heart, without which
there can be no eternal beatitude. Hence
it is also called mortal sin.
Serious sin breaks with God
Venial sin only strains the relationship
with him.
YouCat 316
24. How can a person be delivered from serious
sin and reunited with God?
YouCat 317
25. What are vices?
Vices are negative habits that deaden and
dull the conscience, incline a person to
evil, and habitually prepare him for sin.
Found in connection with the 7 capital
sins:
pride, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, covetou
sness, sloth .
Acedia=spiritual boredom
YouCat 318
26. Deep-seated disorder in our appetites and
drives that is the root-cause of many of
our personal sins; through God’s
redeeming grace, we are strengthened to
overcome this disorder within us
Our concupiscence shows itself in certain
sources or roots of sin called the “seven
capital sins”
Concupiscence
27. Basic evil inclinations or disvalues which
are the origin of many sinful
thoughts, words, or deeds
They manifest the evil tendencies within
each of us which are the effects of original
sin.
Seven Capital sins
28. PRIDE: exalting oneself beyond what is due
and true
LUST: disordered desire for or inordinate
enjoyment of sexual pleasure
ANGER: destructive aggressiveness
Seven Capital Sins
29. GLUTTONY: excessive indulgence in food or
drink
ENVY: begrudging others their
talents, success and wishing them evil
COVETOUSNESS: desiring what to
others, leading to dishonesty, stealing and
injustice
SLOTH: laziness and escape from exerting
due effort
Seven Capital Sins
30. Is there a thing as structures of sin?
Structures of sin exist only in a manner of
speaking. A sin is always connected with
an individual person, who knowingly and
willingly agrees to something evil.
YouCat 320
31. 1. I am better than all of you.
2. I love to eat even if I’m already full.
3. I give in to sexual desires by watching
pornography and touching my
classmates.
4. I hate doing homework.
5. I have very little patience with others.
Identify the capital sin being
described.
32. 6. I wish my rich classmates ill
fortune.
7. I buy things on impulse even
when I don’t need them.
8. I hate doing household chores.
9. I smuggle sex videos in my
computer.
10. I like to take the easy way out.
Identify the capital sins described
