CCD_grade-7_chapter-1_ slideshow.ppt

creation

1. Knowing
God
through
Creation
Chapter 1

2. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT GOD
EXISTS?
Can you prove it?
St. Thomas Aquinas could!

3. THE FIRST MOVER
Anything moved is moved by something else.
Someone has to move the first domino (video clip).

4. THE FIRST CAUSE
Anything caused is caused by something else.

5. NECESSARY BEING
Everything is dependent on something else for
existence.

6. GREATEST BEING
There is a source of all greatness – God is the
best of everything.

7. INTELLIGENT DESIGNER
The creator is always smarter than the creation.

8. MAN = BODY AND SOUL
Body
How do our bodies help us?
What can we do because we have a body?
Soul – 2 special powers
Intellect: power to understand
Free will: ability to choose
Man is unique because he is part of the material
world and the spiritual world.

9. MAN IS LIKE A BRIDGE.
Man
Animals
Plants
Inanimate Creation
(rocks, water, etc.)
God
Angels
Man
Material (Visible) World
Body
Spiritual (Invisible) World
Soul
Man is
the
highest
of the
material
world.
Why?
Man is
the
lowest
of the
spiritual
world.
Why?

10. MAN KNOWS GOD BY REASON
Reason – using our minds
St. Thomas Aquinas’ 5 Proofs
Observing order and design in the
universe

Read student book p. 13, paragraphs 1-4

Explaining order and design as chance is quite foolish!

11. MAN KNOWS GOD BY REVELATION
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO US
Revelation = the truths of the faith which God has made
known to us through Scripture and Tradition.
Scripture – 2 meanings

1. Word of God written in the Bible

2. Word made Flesh, Jesus Christ,
who reveals God most fully
because Jesus is God.
Tradition - the Word of God, taught in its fullness by
the apostles, and by the doctrine, life and worship of
the Church.

12. THE CHURCH MAGISTERIUM
PASSES ON AND PROTECTS THE
TRUTHS OF OUR FAITH
Magisterium = the Pope and bishops in union
with him.
Their “job” is to pass on the
fullness of truth and
guard it from error.
The Holy Spirit guides them
and protects from error the
truths needed for salvation.
Church disciplines may change, but doctrines do not.

Example: The manner in which a wedding is celebrated
may change from the 3
rd
century to present day, but the
Sacrament of Matrimony does not change.

13. CLOSING PRAYER
Act of Faith
O my God, I firmly believe that You are one God
in three divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. I believe that Your divine Son became
man and died for our sins, and that He will come
to judge the living and the dead. I believe these
and all the truths that the Holy Catholic Church
teaches because You have revealed them, Who
can neither deceive nor be deceived. AMEN.