EDGAR ALLAN C.

ALOTA
1. What is the goal of Apologetics?
 A branch of Christianity that defends the authority of God’s Word, the character of God and
Christianity as a whole, and also uses the Bible as an offensive weapon against all other worldviews
and opposition. Not only do we need to teach general bible apologetics in this age, but we also need
to teach creation apologetics. The goal of apologetics is more than the dissemination of facts, it’s the
invitation into a relationship.

2. What is your comprehension about Catholic Apologetics? Give some of it obstacles and explain each.
 It is science, a bit difficult to understand for people who have not been educated in the Catholic
religion, but it is the one that is in charge of demonstrating that the Catholic religion is credible, it also
makes the foundations or preambles of the faith to show that this is completely rational and
legitimate. It explains the teachings, practices and beliefs of the catholic church and help us defend it.

Obstacles:

a. Infallibility of the Catholic Church – the supreme degree of participation in the authority of Christ
is ensured by the charism of infallibility. This infallibility extends as far as does the deposit of
Divine Revelation; it also extends to all those elements of doctrine, including morals, without
which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, explained or observed.

3. Why catholic do or make the sign of the cross? Give at least 5 reasons or Catholic Church teachings on
the former?
 Making the sign of the cross is a gesture that says, in shorthand, that a person is Catholic. It appears
as an icon in popular culture, and as a gesture it is scattered throughout film history. Moving priests
make solemn signs over newly dead persons or penitents in the confessional, boxers make clumsy
signs with their gloved fists, tonsured monks in medieval garb make the same gesture as a shorthand
way of indicating that they are either superstitious or in the presence of some eerie potent. Every
religious tradition incorporates bodily gestures to thicken the power of religious language. In that
sense, the sign of the cross is a form of body language like the gestures of raising the hands in a
prayer, kneeling, bowing, and so on. Making the sign of the cross says something, and when it is done
in public it is also an act of faith. The sign of the cross speaks and confesses. Powerful symbolic
gestures, when examined up close, say more than one thing. Quite obviously, signing ourselves is a
holy ark of our belief in the saving actions of Jesus Christ. We also make the sign in the name of the
trinity by invoking Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

4. What comes into your mind when you hear the word faith? And elucidate the teaching of the catholic
church through the catechism of the catholic church regarding faith.
 Faith show the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. Through their
faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the whole
universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can
be seen. Faith can only come from a new heart, regenerated by God; therefore, faith is a gift from
God. It is the unique way that God uses to bring salvation to his people. We strengthen our faith by
reading the bible and hearing the gospel. Everyone who is saved has been gifted faith. It is the ability
to believe God is who he says He is, trusting him in all things for all things. Faith also helps to combat
unbelief and motivates us to do what God desires us to do. Not only do we grow our faith by reading
 scripture and praying in our own time, but also by hearing the message in church with other
believers.

5. One of the most distinctive types of artwork to be found in the catholic church is the statue. To some or
non-Catholics this appears to contradict the word of God who said. Do not turn to idols or make for
yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:4) Do catholic worship statues? Enunciate
your comprehensive response.
 Seeing catholics kneeling before statues and other sacred art, some have accused them of idolatry –
the giving to another creature or object the worship due to God. Some even claim the Catholic
Church removed the second Commandment, “you shall not make for yourself a graven image, so that
statue worship would seem permissible. Catholics do not worship statues or images in any form.
Worship is reserved for God alone. Idolatry in any form is absolutely condemned. The catechism of
the Catholic Church spells this out clearly. Anyone who suggests otherwise is mistaken and seriously
misrepresents catholic teachings. When catholic kneels or bows in prayer before a statue, they are
not worshipping in in any way whatsoever. They are using it as a person might use a picture of his
family to recall them, even pray for them, when he is not with them. It is used ultimately to raise our
hearts and minds to God to aid us in prayer venerating or honoring the Saints and asking for their
intercessory prayers.

6. Non-Catholics claim that “Catholics worship saints” this statement usually comes from the fact that
Catholics often pray to saints, performing various devotions to them. Do Catholic worship saints?
Explicate comprehensively.
 Often non-Catholics will claim that Catholics worship saints. This statement usually comes from the
fact that Catholics often pray to saints, performing various devotions to them. While it may appear to
some people that Catholics are worshipping saints, what they are doing is far from it. Catholics frim
God can be the object of worship. Since the very beginning of the church, Catholics have prayed to
saints, honoring them and asking for their heavenly intercession. This arose from the belief that the
church is much larger than the physical buildings and people we see with our eyes on earth.

7. Explain the dogma of the holy trinity

 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three Persons, the consubstantial
Trinity. The Divine Persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God
whole and entire. The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and
the Son that which the Holy Spirit is; by nature One God. The Divine Persons are really distinct from
one another. God is one but not solitary, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not simply names designating
modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another. “ He is not the Father
who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father and the
Son. The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the
real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them
to one another.