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Catechism of the Catholic Church
 Original Sin
- True or false. The disobedience of Adam and Eve to God’s command evinced a lack of trust in God’s goodness.
- If the first Adam has sold us into slavery to sin, who is the second Adam who breaks the power of the evil one?
- True or false. Satan and the angels associated with him were created evil.
- True or false. By Adam’s sin, the supernatural relationship with God in which Adam and Eve were born was lost both for themselves and for all human beings.
- True or false. After Baptism takes away original sin, our will is no longer inclined toward evil.
- As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the domination of death; and inclined to sin (Para. 418). . . .
This inclination is called:
- personal sin
- concupiscence
- hamartia
- subjective guilt
- synderesis
- Original sins means that
- since Adam and Eve committed a sin which had never been committed before, it can truly be said to be original.
- all those born after Adam and Eve are also held personally responsible for that sin, just as Adam and Eve were.
- we become subject to original sin when we initially imitate the rebellion of Adam and Eve.
- because of Adam’s sin, all people are born with a fallen human nature.
- b and c.
- True or false. Original Sin is a personal sin for which we are responsible..
- True or false. The sin of Adam and Eve has opened up for us greater blessings from God than if Adam and Eve had never sinned.
- Because of the sin of Adam and Eve, which of the following consequences resulted? Choose none, any, or all.
- Death entered the world.
- The relationship between man and woman is now distorted by lust and domination.
- The control of our body by our spiritual faculties is shattered.
- Sex now became a necessary evil to propagate the species.
- Creation became hostile to man.
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