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Lesson 4: God Created Everything Out of Love
The world was made for the glory of God, to show it forth and communicate it.
The world was made for the glory of God, to show it forth and communicate it.
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.
Jesus Christ commands His followers to make disciples and build the Kingdom of God
Every human person has an inestimable value in the eyes of God.
Authentic freedom is the ability to choose what is good, and it is ultimately found in God Himself.
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.
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.
Temperance is the virtue that resists the inordinate attachment to goods that lead to greed.
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.