§ 1. God the Father and creation.
22. Teaches us that the first article: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth"?
The first article of the Creed teaches us that there is one God, he is omnipotent, he created heaven, earth and all things therein, that is to say the entire universe.
23. How do we know there is a God?
We know there is a God because our reason shows us that faith and we confi rm.
24. Why do we give to God the Father's name?
It gives God the name of the Father:
• because it is inherently Father of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, that is to say that the Son was begotten
• because God is the Father of all men he has created, and it retains that governs;
• Finally, because it is the Father through the grace of all good Christians, called for that the adoptive son of God.
25. Why Is the Father the First Person of the Blessed Trinity?
The Father is the first Person of the Blessed Trinity because it does not make another one, but it is the principle of two other persons, that is to say, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
26. What does the word "almighty"?
The word "omnipotent" means that God can do whatever he wants.
27. God can neither sin nor die: how does one say when he can do anything?
It is said that God can do anything, though he can not sin or die, because the power of sin or die is not an effect of power but of weakness, and may not be in God who is infinitely perfect.
28. That means "Creator of heaven and earth"?
"Create" means "do nothing": as God is called the Creator of heaven and earth because he has done nothing the heaven, earth and all things therein, that is ie the entire universe.
29. The world has been created only by the Father?
The world was also created by the three divine Persons, because everything what does a person on the creatures, the others are doing it in one document.
30. Why is it creating attributed specifically to the Father?
Creation is attributed specifically to the Father because creation is an effect of the omnipotence of God and the omnipotence is attributed specifically to the Father, the Son as the wisdom and goodness to the Holy Spirit, although three Persons are equally powerful, wise and good.
31. Did God care for the world and all things he created?
Yes, God takes care of the world and all the things he has created and it preserves and governs by his infinite goodness and wisdom, and nothing happens here on earth without God grant or permit.
32. Why do you say that nothing happens in this world without God grant or permission?
They say nothing happens here on earth without God grant or permit, because there are things that God wants and commands, and others he does not like sin.
33. Why does God does not sin?
God does not sin, because even the fact that abuse of human freedom he has been granted, he knows to remove a property and still shine more or mercy or His justice.
§ 2. Angels .
34. What are the noblest creatures that God created?
The noblest creatures created by God are angels.
35. What are angels?
Angels are purely spiritual and intelligent creatures.
36. For what purpose did God create the angels?
God created the angels to be honored and served by them, and make them eternally happy.
37. What form and figure have angels?
Angels have neither form nor figure significant because they are pure spirits created by God to survive without being united to a body.
38. Why do we represent the angels in visible forms?
It represents the angels under sensible forms: •
to help our imagination to conceive; •
because that is how they often appeared to men, as we read in Holy Scripture.
39. The angels they all were faithful to God?
No, the angels were not all faithful to God, but many of them claimed to be equal by her pride and be independent of him, and because of this sin, they were excluded for ever from Paradise and condemned to hell .
40. How are called angels forever excluded from Paradise and condemned to hell?
Angels excluded for ever from Paradise and condemned to hell are called demons and their leader is called Lucifer or Satan.
41. Demons Can we do something wrong?
Yes, demons, God gives them permission, can do much harm and our soul and our body, especially for us to sin by temptation.
42. Why do they tempt us?
demons tempt us because we are the envy and desire that makes them our eternal damnation, and because of their hatred against God whose image shines in us. And God allows temptations, so that we triomphions with the help of grace, and so we practiced the virtues we acquire merits for heaven.
43. How can we overcome the temptations? It
triumph of temptations by vigilance, by prayer and Christian mortification.
44. How are called angels who remained faithful to God?
Angels who remained faithful to God are called angels, spirits or simply heavenly angels.
45. What became of the angels remained faithful to God?
Angels remained faithful to God were confirmed in grace. They enjoy forever the sight of God they love, bless and praise forever.
46. God uses it as the angels of his ministers?
Yes, God uses the angels as his ministers, and, in particular, he asked many of them the burden of being our guardians and protectors.
47. Do we have a special devotion to our guardian angel?
Yes, we must have a special devotion to our Guardian Angel, honor, support his claim, follow his inspirations, and be grateful for the assistance that we continually ready.
§ 3. Man .
48. What is the most noble creature that God put on earth?
the noblest creature that God has put on earth is man.
49. What is man?
Man is a creature composed of a reasonable soul and body.
50. What is the soul?
The soul is the noblest part of man, because she is a spiritual substance, endowed with intelligence and will, capable of knowing God and to possess forever.
51. Can we see and touch the human soul?
can neither see nor touch our soul, because it is a spirit.
52. The soul human she dies with the body?
The human soul never dies: faith and reason itself prove that it is immortal.
53. The man is free in his actions?
Yes, man is free in his actions and each feels in himself that he can do something or not do it, do one thing rather than another.
54. Explain, for example, that human freedom.
If I tell a lie deliberately, I feel I could not say it and say nothing, and I could also talk differently by telling the truth.
55. Why do we say that man was created in the image and likeness of God?
is said that man was created in the image and likeness of God, because the human soul is spiritual and reasonable, free in his actions, capable of knowing and loving God and to enjoy him forever, and these are perfection in us a reflection of the infinite greatness of the Lord.
56. In what condition did God created our first parents, Adam and Eve?
God created Adam and Eve in a state of innocence and grace, but soon they déchurent by sin.
57. Furthermore innocence and sanctifying grace, God did it no other gifts to our first parents?
addition innocence and sanctifying grace, God gave our first parents of other gifts they had to pass on to their descendants with sanctifying grace. They were "integrity", that is to say, the sense of perfect submission to reason, "Immortality," "immunity" for any pain and misery, and "science" proportionate to their state.
58. What was the sin of Adam?
Adam's sin was a sin of pride and serious disobedience.
59. What was the punishment of the sin of Adam and Eve?
Adam and Eve lost the grace of God and they had the right to heaven, they were expelled from Paradise, subject to many miseries of soul and body, and condemned to die.
60. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, would they have been free from death?
If Adam and Eve had not sinned and they had remained faithful to God, after a stay happy and peaceful on this earth without dying they were transported by God in heaven for you to enjoy eternal life and glorious.
61. These donations were they due to man? These gifts were
manmade in any way, but they were absolutely free and supernatural. So when Adam had disobeyed the divine command, God could without injustice to deprive him of these gifts and his posterity.
62. This sin is it clean only to Adam?
This sin is not only Adam's sin, it is also ours, albeit differently. It is proper to Adam, because he who commits an act of his will and there he was for his personal sin. It is our own, because Adam had sinned and strain as head of the entire human race, his sin is transmitted by natural generation to all his descendants, and thus it is our original sin.
63. How is it possible that the original sin going on in all men?
Original sin going on in all men because God has given to mankind in Adam, sanctifying grace and other supernatural gifts, if not Adam disobeyed no, it disobeys as a leader and father of mankind and made the human nature rebels against God. Also, human nature is it transmitted to all descendants of Adam in a state of rebellion against God and deprived of divine grace and other gifts.
64. What are the penalties that we had caused the original sin?
Sentences caused by original sin are deprived of grace, the loss of paradise, ignorance, inclination to evil, all the miseries of this life and, finally, death.
65. All men assume they original sin?
Yes, all men contract original sin, except the Blessed Virgin which was preserved by a special privilege of God, in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ our Savior.
66. After Adam's sin, men would not they have saved himself?
After Adam's sin, men could not save himself, if God was not merciful to them.
67. God how he was merciful to mankind?
God was merciful to mankind by promising immediately to Adam the divine Redeemer or Messiah, and sending the Messiah at the appointed time, to deliver men from the slavery of sin and the devil.
68. What is the promised Messiah?
the promised Messiah is Jesus Christ, as taught in the second article of the Creed.
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