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 TOPIC 1
INTEGRITY AND CONCUPISCENCE

• Objectives: At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

• 1. recognize and analyze the importance integrity about
Christian life;
• 2. Identify some effects of concupiscence in our life as
Christian; and
• 3. appreciate the value and Internalize the importance of
integrity in Christian life.
Biblical Foundation

Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your

gaze directly before you. Give careful
thought to the paths for your feet and be
steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to
the right or the left; keep your foot from
evil.
- Proverbs 4:25-27
 "What does the Bible say about integrity?"
• Answer: In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word translated
“integrity” means “the condition of being without blemish,
completeness, perfection, sincerity, soundness, uprightness,
wholeness.” Integrity in the New Testament means “honesty
and adherence to a pattern of good works.”
• Jesus is the perfect
example of a man of
integrity. After He was
baptized, He went into
the wilderness to fast for
forty days and nights,
during which time Satan
came to Him at His
weakest to try to break His
integrity and corrupt Him.
Jesus was wholly man and
wholly God at the same time,
and He was tempted in every way
we are, yet He never sinned
(Hebrews 4:15 ); that is the
definition of integrity. Jesus is
the only one who was ever
without blemish, perfect,
completely truthful, and always
showing a pattern of good works.
Adam & Eve
Created in the
state of innocence
and integrity.
In the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible,
chapters one through five, there are two creation
narratives with two distinct perspectives.
1. In the first, Adam and Eve are not named.
Instead, God created humankind in God's image
and instructed them to multiply and to
be stewards over everything else that God had
made.
2. In the second narrative, God fashions Adam from
dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is
told that he can eat freely of all the trees in the
garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. 
Subsequently, Eve is created
from one of Adam's ribs to be
his companion. They are
innocent and unembarrassed
about their nakedness.
• However, a serpent convinces
Eve to eat fruit from the
forbidden tree, and she gives
some of the fruit to Adam.
• a. these acts give them
additional knowledge;
• b. it gives them the ability to
conjure negative and
destructive concepts such
as shame and evil.
• God later curses the serpent and
the ground. God prophetically
tells the woman and the man
what will be the consequences
of their sin of disobeying God.
Then he banishes them from the
Garden of Eden.
Effects of Sin:
Concupiscence is : • Intense Human
Desire.
“simply the fight (CCC 2515)
between passion
and reason”
“Concupiscence is the guilt of
original sin”
-St. Augustine

“The sensual body, lustful eye,

pride in possessions, could never
have come from the father”
- -St. John (1 John 2:16)
When someone says something
very offensive to you…
Feelings are spontaneous…

They arise
not from a
decision, but
an emotion.
To fight concupiscence…
2.How to fight concupiscence?
• Take no chances
• Be prepared
• Oppose the beginning of
temptation
Online Sources:
• Adam and Eve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
• Free Photos.
https://sg.images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrwJUVcZX
BgBEwAenR2u4lQ
• Integrity. https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-integrity.html

Bible Verse. https://www.biblestudytools.com/proverbs/passage/?

q=proverbs+4:25-27
THANK YOU!
Contingent beings:
Plants:
Mountains & People:
• What Is Natural Theology?
• Traditionally natural theology is the term used for the attempt
to prove the existence of God and divine purpose through
observation of nature and the use of human reason.
• Ex: 1.
2.
What is revealed theology?
Man has a special need of scientific
logic which is a systematic:
to examine the thought processes in
difficult or controversial cases.
THANK YOU!