God mercifully promised a Redeemer to restore us to friendship with God That promise is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

1. St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Cathedral Confirmation Class – 2Cathedral Confirmation Class – 2ndnd
SemesterSemester
Chapter 3: The FallChapter 3: The Fall

2. The FallThe Fall
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4. Ch:3 – Introduction
 God created us because of love.
 He desired to share his love and goodness with us.
 He gave us Free Will so that we can choose to:
 know Him
 love Him
 serve Him
 live with him forever in Heaven after our life on earth ends.
 we are free to choose to love God
 we are also free to reject him.
 When we reject God we turn to evil.
We will examine the existence of evil in the world.

5. Satan’s Fall
 Bad angels are called demons or “fallen angels” b/c they turned against God.
 Satan is a fallen angel who along with the other fallen angels rejected God &
his friendship and were therefore cast from heaven. (Paragraph 1, pg. 27)
 Christ spoke about the devil in the New Testament calling him among other
things the “father of lies.”
 The purpose of Christ’s Redemption is the defeat of sin and death and to
defeat Satan. (Paragraph 4, pg. 27)

6. Satan’s Fall
 God always gives us grace to resist temptation
 God is forever ready to help us and strengthen us in our weakness.
 Read the scripture passage(1 Cor: 10-13 at the bottom of page 27) (Watch the Video – What is sin?)
 Satan’s power is greater than ours but nothing compared to God’s.
 This is why our Christian faith is VERY IMPORTANT!

7. The Fall of Adam and Eve
 The Promise after the Fall
 God created our first parents and blessed them
 Go made gave them free will so they could
choose to return his love.
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Example – A person w/o free will is a slave (Slaves
can’t love the master b/c they aren’t free)
 Adam and Eve chose to use their freedom to sin
and lost communion and friendship with God
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This event is called the Fall
Watch the video on Fr. Robert Barron on Original Sin~
Excellent summation of the Christian understanding of original sin.

8. Man’s Fall
 The Original Sin
 Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden in
Harmony with God and each other and creation.
This state was called original holiness and Original
Justice.
 Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s prohibition not to
eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
and if they did they would suffer death.
 They were tempted by the Serpent and choose to
disobey God’s command committing the sin of
disobedience.

9. Consequences of Original Sin
 Consequences of Original Sin for Adam and Eve
 They lost original holiness and original justice.
 Destroyed the good relationship between God
and human beings
 Sin caused sickness and suffering and brought
death into the world.
 Meaning they didn’t live
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( page 30 of the text).

10. Consequences
 Consequences of Original Sin for All Humanity
 Adam and Eve’s Original Sin didn’t just affect them but the whole human
race.
 Original sin means that from the moment of conception each human
person receives Adam and Eve’s fallen nature.
 Sanctifying grace is restored through Baptism but a person is still
subject to concupiscence - is the inner disorder of our basic drives,
suffering and eventually death.
 We see the consequences of original sin in the children of
Adam and Eve who had two sons, Cain and Abel.
 Cain kills Abel out of envy and hatred.
 Sin divides us from God and each other

11. Sin and Redemption
 God allows evil as a consequence of our free will.
 God also can bring about good from evil. This is the mystery of the
Redemption.
 God sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to save humanity from sin through

Passion

Death

Resurrection
 Christ came to redeem everyone.
 He is a New Adam who is obedience and atones for the disobediences
of the original Adam.
 His death makes it possible for us to be restored to the divine life.
 Original sin and the mystery of redemption are inseparable. The
Redemption is God’s remedy for the Fall of man.

12. Conclusion
 God created us in a state of holiness, justice, and happiness
 Our first parents rejected God and causing us to loose these
original gifts.
 The consequences of Original Sin affect all humanity and
incline us toward sin.
 This inclination is called concupiscence.
 God mercifully promised a Redeemer to restore us to
friendship with God
 That promise is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

13. Questions or Comments

14. References
 Hahn, S. The Church: Sacrament of Salvation (1998). Didache Series: Midwest Theological
Forum
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore
 http://www.stjosephcathedral.net/
 http://www.omniglot.com/
 http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/
 http://www.fpcbloomington.org/
 http://www.copticworld.org/
 http://shepherdproject.com/
 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/

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