1. SIX SOURCES OF CONSCIENCE FORMATION

2. JOURNAL QUESTION
What does the Bible mean to YOU? What do you believe about the Bible?

3. SIX SOURCES The following six things can help us form our conscience:
The Church
Scripture
Natural Law
Science
Sensus Fidelium
Personal Experience

4. FORMATION OF CONSCIENCE
A well-formed conscience is upright and truthful. (CCC #1783)
The education of the conscience is a lifelong task.
The education of the conscience guarantees freedom and engenders peace of heart. (#1784)

5. “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
-John 8:32

6. As a Source of Conscience Formation
THE BIBLE
As a Source of Conscience Formation

7. BIBLE
BASIC
INSTRUCTIONS
BEFORE
LEAVING
EARTH

8. Dei Verbum (#11)
The Catholic Church “holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety,” are:
sacred and canonical because
written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
they have God as their author
God chose men …so that with Him they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything and only those things which He wanted.

9. Dei Verbum (cont.)
The Bible teaches “solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted…for the sake of salvation.”

10. A Catholic Approach to Scripture
The books of the Bible were written by human beings, who are limited.
Humans write in their own language and in their own style.
Amidst the limitations of humans, the Holy Spirit still transmits the Truth.