02 September 2007

Purity of Heart, Part 1

1. What is Original Solitude?
2. What is Original Unity?
3. What is Original Nakedness?
4. What doubt did Adam and Eve have that brought about the Fall?
5. What effect did the Fall have on Adam’s understanding of his body?
6. When did shame enter into the human experience?
7. What are the negative and positive elements of shame?
8. What two kinds of fear does shame involve?
9. Explain the difference between “nakedness without shame” and shamelessness.
10. What are the three kinds of lust according to St. John?
11. What effect does lust have on the heart?
12. What effect does lust have on the other person?
13. Explain the difference between lust and true love.
14. How are adultery and idolatry related according to the OT prophets?
15. How does adultery violate God’s original plan?
16. What is the Biblical view of the “heart”?
17. Where does true morality begin?
18. How was adultery viewed in the Law, the Prophets ands the books of Wisdom?
19. What is the difference between the Old Testament law against adultery and the teaching of Christ?

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