Religious Education PDF

**Natural Fear of Death** 1. **Fear of Death** - Also known as thanatophobia, which is distinguished from *necrophobia -- fear of dead persons.* - Death is inevitable which means death is unavoidable **Death is a Wage of Sin** 2. **Sin is Missing the Mark** - In Greek, it is kn...

**Natural Fear of Death** 1. **Fear of Death** - Also known as thanatophobia, which is distinguished from *necrophobia -- fear of dead persons.* - Death is inevitable which means death is unavoidable **Death is a Wage of Sin** 2. **Sin is Missing the Mark** - In Greek, it is known as hamartia means to miss the mark. 3. **Sin of our First Parent** - Known as concupiscence, this remains with us even after confession and baptism 4. **Immortality** - Means that the human person will not die or will not experience the separation of body and soul. 5. **Impassibility** - Means that the human person is immune from all suffering and misery 6. **Wage** - The payment a person receives his or her work. 7. **Summary** - Because of our ancestor's sin, we lost the gift of immortality and death entered into the world as a consequence. - The Bible tells us that death is not part of his plan because he didn't made death nor he rejoiced in the destruction of life **Death Is Not the Enemy** 1. **Death is not an enemy** - Death is a friend to deal with, as St. Paul says the last enemy to be destroyed is death, to destroy death is to befriend it. - Befriending death is to accept and embrace the thought of dying **Catholic View of Death** 1. **Forms of Bereavement** - Paglalamay (vigil) -- to show our respect to the dead - Pakikiramay (sympathy) -- express our emotional accord for the bereft family members. 2. **What is Death?** - An inescapable reality and as an unfathomable mystery. - The door that closes to us the earthly life and opens to us at the same time the eternal life. 3. *­***Death Means Return** - It means when we die, our bodies and soul return where they came from or the origin 4. **Death Means Passage** - Death is a transition from this life to the next **The Concept of Retribution** 1. **Human Nobel Quest** - Bonum (goodness) - Pulchrum (beauty) - Verum (truth) 2. **Two Kinds of Judgements** - Particular or personal judgement which takes place at the moment of death - General or last judgement which will occur on the last day at the end of the world when Christ comes again. 3. **Retribution** - It is all about reward and punishment. - God will repay everyone according to his works - If the verdict is not favorable, it is the result of our own doing or undoing. **The Particular Judgement** 1. **Thou shall not Kill** - Is a divine judgement that does not only enjoin us to respect the sanctify of human life. - Instructs us to recognize God as the author of life, and he alone can take life - Being judgmental and vindictive is ungodly. 2. **Killings** - Can never be deterrent to criminality - No human authority or law can warrant death as a form of justice. 3. **Law of Talion (lex talionis)** - Part of the Israelites justice system that metes out a just penalty for an evil action - The punishment must correspond to the crime 4. **Eye for an Eye** - Christians doesn't promote this kind of mindset since it promotes violence and shuts the door to mutual understanding and reconciliation.