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    God’s Story, Our Story

    An Introduction to Christianity
    Lesson 2: The Story of Salvation

    God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness


    freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. (CCC 1)

    1. God exists. He is eternal and infinite, one, Spirit, transcendent and


    CCC 200
    immanent, and personal. He knows and loves; he is a communion
    of persons which we call the Trinity.
    2. God is Creator of the invisible and visible world.
    CCC 293, 325-26
    3. The invisible world: God created angels to be his servants and
    CCC 328-30 messengers.
    CCC 337-342, Gen 4. The visible world reflects the beauty of the Creator.
    1:31
    5. Man is the crown of creation, called to share in God’s life and love.
    CCC 343, 27, 356
    Gen 1:26-27 6. At the dawn of creation, God made a covenant with Adam and Eve
    and adopted them as his son and daughter who would form God’s
    human family.
    7. One third of the angels, led by Satan, rejected God and his reign.
    CCC 391
    8. Tempted by the devil, Adam and Eve sinned against God and so
    CCC 397-400
    lost God’s life. With sin, death entered the world. Mankind was
    expelled from paradise.
    9. Sin is a refusal to live according to God’s love because of the
    sacrifices that it demands.
    10. God did not abandon man but used the fall for our salvation and
    Gen 3:15
    divinization.
    11. God revealed himself gradually to mankind through a series of
    covenants. A contract is an exchange of property; a covenant is an
    exchange of persons.
    12. God called Adam to the covenant of marriage with Eve and
    Gen 1:26-2:3; 3:15
    promised to deliver them from sin through the seed who would
    crush the head of the serpent.
    Gen 9:8-17 13. God kept Noah and his family safe from the flood and renewed his
    covenant with mankind with the sign of the rainbow.
    14. God promised to Abraham the Promised Land; to make of his
    Gen 12:1-3,
    22:16-18 descendants a great nation, and to bless through him all the
    families of the earth.

    Ex 19:5-6

    Lesson 2: The Story of Salvation, p. 1/3


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    15. God used Moses to deliver Israel out of bondage in Egypt and to
    make of them a holy nation.

    2 Sam 7:8-19
    16. God promised to David to build a worldwide kingdom that would
    rule in justice over all nations. The divine rule in the Davidic
    kingdom was made up of prophets (the word of God), priests (the
    Temple liturgy), and the king (ruler of the people).
    17. Because of Israel’s sins, the Babylonians destroyed the Temple and
    the city of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, and took the population into exile.
    18. After 70 years, the people returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt the
    Temple. But the kingdom was not restored. At that time there
    were high Messianic expectations in Israel.
    Lk 1:28-38
    19. Our salvation began when Mary said yes to God and allowed the
    Messiah to be conceived in her by the Holy Spirit.
    Mt 1:21
    20. In Bethlehem, the second person of the Trinity became man.
    21. Jesus the Messiah has come to reveal the love of the Father,
    Mt 4:19, Lk 10:16
    proclaiming the kingdom of God.

    Mt 26:28, CCC 1337


    22. Jesus chose 12 apostles to continue his mission.

    Mt 26:35
    23. At the last supper, Jesus instituted a new covenant with Israel.
    24. Jesus offered his life as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind.
    25. Jesus accomplished our redemption through the Paschal Mystery:
    his passion, death, resurrection and ascension.
    Acts 2:38
    26. At Pentecost, the apostles received the Holy Spirit and so the
    Church was born, the mystery of men’s union with God.
    CCC 771-776, 790-
    797, 804, 813-815, 27. The Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic, and led by the
    823, 831, 861
    successor of Peter, the bishop of Rome.
    28. God has given the Church the 3 roles of prophet (Sacred Scripture),
    priest (Sacred Tradition), and king (the pope and Magisterium).
    CCC 827
    29. The Church is holy, yet made of sinners. The Church provides all
    the means to make us saints. We are part of God’s story.
    CCC 1023-1037 30. The last things: at death, each person will go through a particular
    judgment. He will either go to heaven (directly or after purification
    in purgatory) or to hell forever.
    CCC 671, 678, 989, 31. At the end of times, Jesus will come again to judge the world. Our
    1024 bodies will be resurrected and the kingdom of God will come in its
    fullness.

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    God’s Covenants with Mankind
    Mediator: Adam Noah Abraham Moses David Jesus
    Role: Husband Father Chieftain Judge King Royal High
    Priest
    Form: Marriage Household Tribe Nation Kingdom Catholic
    Church
    Sign: Sabbath Rainbow Circumcision Passover Throne Eucharist

    Questions for Discussion

    1. Do you ever think about where you come from and where you are going? Does your answer to this
    question make a difference in how you make your everyday decisions?
    2. What is a covenant? Can you think of examples of covenants in your own life or in our society?
    What is the role of God’s people in each of His covenants?
    3. How does God’s story of salvation affect your answer to the first question? Are you aware of the
    fact that you are part of God’s story? Does it make a difference in your life? How could you become
    more aware that you have a unique role to play in God’s story?
    4. How often do you think about the spiritual world around you (God, angels, demons)? Do you feel
    the influence of good and evil in your life? How do you respond to these influences?
    5. How is Jesus the center of the Story of Salvation? How does he connect past, present, and future?
    Earth and Heaven? Time and eternity? You and God?
    6. Is God’s story all planned in advance, or can we influence its development and outcome?
    7. What difference do you make in God’s story of salvation?

    Recommended Reading

    Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture. Ann
    Arbor: Charis, 1998.

    Lesson 2: The Story of Salvation, p. 3/3


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