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- Creation accomplished by God the Father
- What of the Son and Holy Spirit?
- Father is first person of the Trinity: three divine persons in One God
- Jesus taught us to call God “Abba:
- What does this tell us about God?
- Is it right to call God “Father”?
- Why not mother?
- What doers it mean to say we are made in the image of God?
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- God created intentionally
- Not random chance
- There was and is a plan
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- God created out of nothing:
- God guides creation through Divine Providence- God’s guidance over and
protection of creation
- We are created in God’s image and likeness
- Created male and female
- Creator of all that is seen and unseen
- What is unseen?
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- Original sin – misuse of God given freedom
- We were created in a state of “original justice” or “holiness”: state of
grace, not inclined to sin
- Now affected by concupiscence: the inclination to sin
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