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Fall and Original Sin

Lesson 1Slide2

Anticipatory set

Read together Psalm 51

https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NESlide3

Objectives

Who are Satan and the demons?

What is Original Sin

What are the Consequences of Original Sin for Adam and Eve?

What are the consequences of Original Sin for us?

What is the “solution; to Original Sin and actual sins?Slide4

I. Satan And the Fallen Angels

1. Some angels made an irrevocable choice to reject God.

2. Satan was one of God’s chief angels who rejected God’s friend ship. When God asked him to serve he said, ”Non

servium

” (I will not serve.).

3. Christ characterizes Satan as, “murder” and “father of lies.” and tempter and enemy who sows evil.Slide5

I. Satan And the Fallen Angels

4. Satan’s goal: to sabotage God’s plan.

5. God allows demons to tempt us to test our fidelity and so we can manifest the merits of Christ.

6. Satan is powerful, more powerful than us in many ways, but ultimately is nothing compared to God.

a. The most powerful weapon against Satan: The Cross, Rosary, Mass.

b. Use Satan’s own words against him, “non

Servium

”Slide6

II. Original Sin

God gave Adam one prohibition: do not eat of the tree of knowledge

This command was meant to help us recognize that we are not the knowers of all things. Our knowledge is limited. We are not God.

Satan’s Lie: “You will be like God.” How is this a lie?Slide7

II. Original Sin

4. Read together Genesis 3:4. What was attractive/tempting about the apple?Slide8

II. Original Sin

Eve “saw “

Three Fold dimensions of Sin

Jesus in the Desert

(Luke

4:1-12)

To combat sin we can

Good for food

Pleasure

Bread

Fast

A delight to the eyes

Possession

Shows

him kingdoms of the word

Give alms

Desirable for wisdom

Power

Command

the angels

PraySlide9

II. Original Sin

5. The Original sin was an act of disobedience.

6. Man wanted to be like God but “God, before God, and not in accordance with God.”Slide10

III. Consequences of Original Sin

1. Lost the friendship of God. (Loss of original holiness)

Separation between God and man.

Like damaging a friendship between to close friends.

Loss of preternatural gifts

Immunity to unjust suffering

Immunity to death (as we understand death)

Immunity to sickness

Exemption from

concuipence

IgnoranceSlide11

III. Consequences of Original Sin

3. Now have a greater inclination to sin and temptation: (concupiscence).

4. Loss Original Justice

Loss of harmony between man and woman

Loss of harmony between man and world

Loss of harmony between body and soulSlide12

IV. Original Sin affects all of humanity

1. Adam and Eve harmed all future generations.

2. Adam and Eve forfeited for their descendants original justice and original holiness.

3. Every generation is now subject to concupiscence, suffering, and death.Slide13

IV. Original Sin affects all of humanity

4. Original Sin is transmitted through the propagation of the human species.

5. Original sin does darken the intellect, weaken the will and disrupts the passions

6. The Fall is first evident with Cain’s killing of Abel and

Lamech’s

polygamist and murdering.Slide14

V. Sin and our need for redemption

1. Actual Sin – the personal sins we freely commit.

2. Solution to Original Sin and Actual Sin: God promises a redeemer.

3.

Protoevangelium

(the first Gospel) – Genesis 3:15Slide15

V. Sin and our need for redemption

4. Christ’s redemption is for everyone; just as Adam’s sin was for everyone.

5. Redemption is to restore the divine life in us (divinize humanity).Slide16

Wounds we endure because of Sin

Wound

Definition

Example

Cardinal Virtue

Definition

Example

Malice

Justice

Ignorance

Prudence

Weakness

Fortitude

Concupisence

Temperance