Spirit of Truth, High School > Course VI > Unit 2
Chapter 7: The Sixth Commandment
We are all called to chastity.
We are all called to chastity.
We are created in the image and likeness of God and therefore have deep dignity and worth.
The Incarnation proves that every human person reflects the divine image and therefore always possesses a profound dignity.
Pope John Paul II offered a reflection on the origins of humankind based upon the story of creation found in Genesis 1-3, which has come to be known as Theology of the Body.
The vocation to marriage is thus a call for a man and a woman to make a gift of themselves to each other in a permanent, exclusive, and fruitful relationship of love.
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
Authentic freedom is the ability to choose what is good, and it is ultimately found in God Himself.
Jesus Christ commands His followers to make disciples and build the Kingdom of God
Temperance is the virtue that resists the inordinate attachment to goods that lead to greed.
We can trace every social sin back to a failure to follow one of the Ten Commandments, for each one contains within it many moral principles of social life.
Social sin occurs when sinful behavior is established as a pattern within a population so that it forms the culture of a people and shapes collective values.
Every human person has an inestimable value in the eyes of God.
The Church continued to work for peace and shine a spiritual light as the errors of Nazisism, communism, modernism, and war darkened the world.
Today there are both many challenges facing the Church and many reasons for hope.
The truth of who we are — human persons made in the image and likeness of God — is at the beginning of your children’s study of our Life in Christ. We need to understand how God made us if we are to understand how we are to live the life that God has planned for us — which is to know, love, and serve Him on earth and be happy with Him forever in Heaven. From our conception, God destined us for Heaven. But because God gave us free will, we can choose between life in Christ or death in sin.