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    This document provides an overview of a lesson on human dignity, freedom, and conscience from a Christian perspective. It discusses how humans are created in God's image with inherent worth and rational free will. It explores the biblical creation story and church teachings on human nature and morality. The story of Muniba Mazari is presented as a real-world example of living with dignity and making choices guided by conscience despite facing struggles. Key concepts covered include being made for love of God, moral implications of free will, and the three senses of conscience according to church doctrine.

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    This document provides an overview of a lesson on human dignity, freedom, and conscience from a Christian perspective. It discusses how humans are created in God's image with inherent worth and rational free will. It explores the biblical creation story and church teachings on human nature and morality. The story of Muniba Mazari is presented as a real-world example of living with dignity and making choices guided by conscience despite facing struggles. Key concepts covered include being made for love of God, moral implications of free will, and the three senses of conscience according to church doctrine.

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    Basic

    Assumptions
    on Christian
    Morality
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    OBJECTIVES
    At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
    1. explain the meaning and importance of dignity,
    freedom, and conscience;
    2. describe who the human person is based on the
    creation story and on the teaching of the church; and
    3. practice correct judgment on day to day moral
    decisions as guided by free will and conscience.
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    CONTEXT
    THE STORY OF
    MUNIBA MAZARI
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    CONTEXT: THE STORY OF MUNIBA MAZARI


    QUESTIONS
    1.How did Muniba decide to live her life after the
    accident? Why did she decide to live that way?
    2.What struggles did she undergo when she made up her
    mind to live in accordance with what she believes in as
    the human thing to do?
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN


    ON WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE AN
    AUTHENTIC LIFE
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    INSPIRED WORD OF GOD: Genesis 1:26-28


    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience
    THE CREATION STORY

    A GIFT OF
    DIVINE LOVE
    Lesson 1: The Human Being with
    Dignity, Freedom, and
    Conscience

    God's own self-


    actualization through
    humankind

    God's care for humankind


    The Moral Implications of Man
    as Imago Dei
    If humans are to love God, then
    humans must love other humans
    Human’s likeness with God can be
    understood with that which does not
    show an image of God
    Humans also differ from all other
    creatures because of their rationality
    and freedom
    The freedom which makes man in the
    image of God is the same freedom that
    made him estranged from Him (Gen.
    3:1-24)
    CHURCH TEACHING

    CCC,27
    For if man exists, it is because God has
    created him through love, and through
    love continues to hold him in existence.
    Thus, we can relate in a loving way with
    our creator and respond to Him in love
    and faith.
    CHURCH TEACHING

    CCC,27
    CHURCH TEACHING

    CFC,683
    “the inviolable dignity of every
    human person is the most precious
    possession of the individual, whose
    value comes not from what a person
    ‘has’ as much as from what a person
    ‘is’”
    CHURCH TEACHING

    CFC,686
    Although we tend to take these
    characteristics of our own person for
    granted, we nevertheless need to
    become more conscious of them to
    gain true knowledge of self and of
    our relationship to others and to God
    CHURCH TEACHING

    We should thank God for the gift of


    being human - made in His image
    and likeness.

    To live a moral life is to live in


    accordance with our being an
    Imago Dei
    CHURCH TEACHING

    CFC,694
    “it is so easy to confuse human freedom with
    simply “doing what I want.”

    CCC,1740
    “Authentic freedom is not “the right to say
    and do anything,” but to “do the good”
    CHURCH TEACHING

    Vatican II
    Freedom is an exceptional sign of the image of
    God in us. It is in the freedom that we can turn
    ourselves towards what is good.

    Freedom is not simply a “freedom from” but a “freedom for.”


    CHURCH TEACHING

    The concomitant of FREEDOM is RESPONSIBILITY.

    SIN is the greatest single obstacle to


    authentic freedom.
    CHURCH TEACHING
    Gaudium et Spes, 16
    CHURCH TEACHING

    THREE SENSES OF
    CONSCIENCE
    CHURCH TEACHING

    “To act against our conscience would be


    to do violence to our true selves, to the
    person God wants us to be; we damage
    our relationship with God, we sin.” By
    allowing ourselves to become immersed in
    the selfishness of sin we damage the
    ability to make sound moral judgments
    (Knox, 2011).
    CHURCH TEACHING

    “The worst thing in the world is not sin; it


    is the denial of sin by a false conscience -
    for that attitude makes forgiveness
    impossible.” -Bishop Fulton Sheen

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