The first announcement of the Good News is called what?
Proto-Evangelium
Your descendents will be as numerous as the stars in the sky" was a promise made to whom?
Abraham
Why the Word became Flesh (Incarnation)?
To save us by reconciling us with God who loved us and sent his only Son to be the expiation for our sins
The first instance of a need for a savior in the Bible appears when?
in Genesis 3, the story of Adam and Eve
There was a longing for the fulfillment of what?
Of the promise of a Messiah
Who came close to being the kind of Messiah-king described in the messianic psalms?
no one
From a human point of view, it often looked as is Israel's Messianic hopes were what?
Dashed on rocks of reality
The Gospels recognize Jesus as the what?
Fulfillment of the promise of the coming of the Messiah
The covenant that was made that his kingdom would last forever was givento which king?
King David
What does Theotokos mean?
God bearer"; Mother of God