1. Fr. Veras Religion 9 Notes & Vocabulary Our Lady of Lourdes High School

2. Four Truths of the “I” 1)I didn’t make myself 2)My desires are limitless 3)My abilities are limited 4)I expect happiness

3. EXPERIENCE: Experience is not just to do something or to live through something. Experience means that you have learned something from what has happened because you have made a judgment about it.

4. OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge based on facts rather than feelings or opinions. Knowledge about facts which exist in the real world regardless of how one or another person might interpret those facts or feel about those facts. Objective information is fact-based and observable.

5. SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: The response or reaction of the person (the subject) to a fact. Knowledge which is modified by personal feelings, views, or background.

6. EXAMPLES Objective Statement: There are two whiteboards in Room 207 Subjective Statement: Whiteboards are annoying, they bother my eyes. Objective Statement: Dogs and Cats are mammals. Subjective Statement: Dogs are fun pets. Cats are boring. Objective Statement: Niagara Falls is located on the border of New York State and Canada. Subjective Statement: Niagara Falls it the most beautiful place to visit in New York State.

7. Natural Revelation: What God communicates to us about himself simply through the existence of creation.

8. Two Ways to Know of God: 1) Reason: The human ability to know reality taking all factors into consideration. The guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking. 2) Revelation: God’s communication of Himself by which he makes known his divine plan, which is fulfilled in Jesus Christ

10. My ability to Reason is not something I achieve. This ability is something I discover as a central aspect of myself. Like so many aspects of myself, my reason seems to be given. Just as my desire for happiness seems to be given.

11. “Everyday” Faith: Believing what another person or source tells me, when I know there is good reason to believe the person or the source. Christian Faith: Belief in what God has revealed through Jesus Christ and the Church. This faith is a gift of God. It is one of the three theological virtues which are: Faith, Hope and Charity.

12. SCIENCE: The practice of systematically observing nature in order to understand its laws and structures. Science is one of the tools that Reason uses. It helps us to know some factors of reality. There are many tools that reason uses, such as: mathematic, moral, behavioral, philosophical, faith Scientism: The belief that the only things which exist are those that are observed and measured by Science. (claiming science as the only reliable tool of reason)

13. Atheism: The denial of the existence of God

14. Agnosticism: The belief that God cannot be known.

15. Rationalism: The reduction of reason to scientific or philosophic reasoning

16. Deism: a form of rationalism which admits belief in God based on philosophical reasoning.

17. Fideism: Believing without reasons.

18. Supernatural Truth: a truth we cannot come to know by human reason, we can only know it if It revealed to us by God.