Theology Ch. 10

Front 1

Sin is an offense against God as well as ____, ____, and ____.

Back 1

Reason, truth, and right conscience

Front 2

Sin is a deliberate ___, ___, ___, or ___ contrary to the eternal law of God.

Back 2

thought, word, deed, or omission

Front 3

The key word to remember in all of sin is ____.

Back 3

Relationship

Front 4

Sin hurts my relationship with ___, ___, and ___.

Back 4

God, others, and myself

Front 5

What two things are necessary to commit a sin?

Back 5

Knowledge and will

Front 6

Knowledge

Back 6

You have to know it is a sin and you have to know that you are choosing it.

Front 7

Will

Back 7

You have to be free enough to commit the sin

Front 8

Two kinds of sin

Back 8

Commission and omission

Front 9

Sin of commission

Back 9

What I have done

Front 10

Sin of omission

Back 10

What I have not done

Front 11

A mortal sin is sin whose to object is what?

Back 11

Grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.

Front 12

___ ___ and ___ _ ___ do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary nature of a sin.

Back 12

Feighed ignorance and hardness of heart

Front 13

What is a venial sin?

Back 13

When one commits a sin with less serious matter.

Front 14

How is a venial sin as dangerous as a mortal sin?

Back 14

With mortal sins, you at least know that there is a problem. With venial sins, they can work on us in very subtle and understated ways. We may not recognize them.

Front 15

What is a personal sin?

Back 15

Sin that a person individually commits.

Front 16

We have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we _______.

Back 16

Cooperate in them

Front 17

How does the community cooperate in personal sin?

Back 17

participating directly, advising or praising them, by not disclosing or hindering them when we have an obligation to do so, by protecting evil-doers

Front 18

Personal sin has ______.

Back 18

Communal effects

Front 19

What is a communal sin?

Back 19

A sin of a group, community, or culture. Ex. racism, consumerism

Front 20

What are the capital sins?

Back 20

Pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

Front 21

Pride is a sin against what?

Back 21

Humility

Front 22

Avarice (greed) is a sin against what?

Back 22

Generosity

Front 23

Envy is a sin against what?

Back 23

Love

Front 24

Wrath is a sin against what?

Back 24

Kindness

Front 25

Lust is a sin against what?

Back 25

Self-control

Front 26

Gluttony is a sin against what?

Back 26

Temperance

Front 27

Sloth is a sin against what?

Back 27

Zeal

Front 28

Pride

Back 28

Seeing ourselves as we are and not comparing ourselves to others is humility. Pride and vanity are competitive. If someone else's pride really bothers you, you have a lot of pride.

Front 29

Avarice (greed)

Back 29

This is about more than money. Generosity means letting others get the credit or praise. It is giving without having expectations of the other person. Greed wants to get its "fair share" or a bit more.

Front 30

Envy

Back 30

Love actively seeks the good of others for their sake. Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy is almost indistinguishable from pride at times.

Front 31

Wrath

Back 31

Kindness means taking the tender approach, with patience and compassion. Anger is often our first reaction to the problems of others. Impatience with the faults of others is related to this.

Front 32

Lust

Back 32

Self control and self mastery prevent pleasure from killing the soul by suffocation. Legitimate pleasures are controlled in the same way an athlete's muscles are: for maximum efficiency without damage. Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth. Sex, power, or image can be used well, but they tend to go out of control.

Front 33

Gluttony

Back 33

Temperance accepts the natural limits of pleasures and preserves this natural balance. This does not pertain only to food, but to entertainment and other legitimate goods, and even the company of others.

Front 34

Sloth

Back 34

Zeal is the energetic response of the heart to God's commands. The other sins work together to deaden the spiritual senses so we first become slow to respond to God and then drift completely into the sleep of complacency.