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Lesson 2

Our Need for God's Help and Guidance

Original Sin is a wounded human nature transmitted to all the children of Adam and Eve, causing suffering and the tendency to sin even today.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Steward
    :
    (n.): One who has been given the duty to care for and cultivate something responsibly.
  • Original Innocence
    :
    (n.): The state in which God created human beings prior to the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Original Justice
    :
    (n.): The original state of human beings before sin. In the beginning there was no suffering or death, man was at peace with himself, there was harmony between men and women, and there was peace between Adam and Eve and all of creation. Original Justice was lost due to the Original Sin.
  • Sanctifying Grace
    :
    (n.): The free and undeserved gift of a share in God’s own life. It is a stable disposition, which means we remain in a state of grace unless we lose the divine life through mortal sin. We first receive sanctifying grace at Baptism, it is strengthened through the other Sacraments, and restored through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
  • Original Sin
    :
    (n.): The state of human nature deprived of the original holiness and justice Adam and Even enjoyed before the fall.
  • Concupiscence
    :
    (n.): The tendency or inclination to sin that is an effect of Original Sin. Even though Baptism erases the stain of Original Sin, the tendency to sin remains.
  • Protoevangelium
    :
    (n.): The name given to Genesis 3:15 in which God promises to send a Savior to crush the head of the serpent (Satan), defeating sin and death. It is the first announcement of the Gospel, the Good News of salvation won by Jesus Christ. Latin for “first Gospel.”
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