the relationship between sin, salvation history, and the catholic Church
Theology essay “What is the relationship among sin, salvation history, and the church? (Be sure to explain the significance of man having been made in the image and likeness of God, the role of Divine revelation, and the importance of God’s covenants with his people.) The relationship among sin, salvation history, and the church can be answered by first referring to the Protoevangelium, or the first gospel. This is when God said, "I will make you enemies of each other; you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its heel" (Gen 3:15). To back track before the first gospel, on must know that in the creation of man God mercifully created all people with a spiritual sense. The spiritual sense entitles us to two powers of the soul, free will and intellect. This means when God the Father forbid man to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil humans freely choose to eat it and automatically knew the consequences of listening to the serpent. Luckily, after banishment from the Garden of Eden, God had promised us a redeemer. The redeemer being His son Jesus Christ means that this is the start of salvation history. Salvation history is God’s saving plan of salvation through his son, and our savior, Jesus Christ. As we continue on in history we learn that Jesus were to come through the line of Seth, Adam and Eve’s third born son. Before Christ though we have to recognize a couple people, the first being Abram who God made his first covenant with. Abram was a righteous man that God found favor in, so God decided to make a covenant with him. A covenant is a promise between God and man, God and a nation, or God and the world. Abram’s covenant was that God was going to make Abram’s name great and nation, make him a numerous amount of decedents, and that he would be a source of blessing for all people. God did fulfill the promise of making Abram many decedents that later became the 12 tribes of Israel. These 12 tribes