THE HUMAN PERSON
(Reference: Chapter 5 The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth)
Made in the Image of God
The first Creation Story (Genesis 1-2:4)
1. What key event happens on the sixth day of creation?
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What capabilities do we have that go beyond all other creatures God created?
Discuss what it means by God being our parent just like our physical parents.
How do we know that human beings were not created to be ‘alone’?
God gave us special responsibility for creation – rewrite the verse in the creation story that
details this. (Genesis 1:28)
6. God gave us a special responsibility called stewardship. Explain what we are and are not
meant to do with creation.
The Fall from Grace
The second Creation Story (Genesis 2:4 – 3:24)
7. What is this the story of?
8. Name 3 key teachings of the second creation story.
9. What does the Garden of Eden symbolise?
10. What was God’s only command to Adam and Eve?
11. What happens when they disobey God?
12. What does the tree of knowledge of good and evil symbolise?
13. What is Adam and Eve’s sin sometimes called?
14. List the consequences God announces for Adam and Eve’s sin.
15. Explain what impact this has on ‘harmony’.
Original Sin
16. Define original sin.
17. Describe how Adam and Eve’s sin can be explained as a ‘spiritual defect.’
18. What effect does original sin have on us?
Destined for Glory
19. What gift did God give the human race in the story of Adam and Eve?
20. What did this gift enable humans to do?
21. List what occurs when this gift is used as God hoped.
22. List what occurs when the gift is misused.
23. Explain how the gift of Jesus Christ has destined us for glory?