God created human beings different that animals, Humans have two powers, We are responsible for our actions, We can choose and think. animals act by instinct

1. Lesson #1

2. You are a Special Kind of Creatures
 The animals are some amazing creatures.
 How you ever wonder, why God made you a boy or a girl,
other than animal?
 Well he had a Plan for you
 You are a human being, a very special human creature.
 God made you a kind of creature that can do things
 that not other kind of any other animal would be able to do
what you do.
 God made you this Way, so that you can come to know Him,
 Love Him, and serve Him, and be truly happy with Him for
ever in Heaven.

3. What Jesus Said that Give us
Eternal Happiness.
 Our Mission is to become Holy,
 and to find out what Jesus said how we can
be happy
 Today we began to talk about you, and
me, and other people around the world.
 There are some things that made us,
human beings, and extra-special.
 More especial than the trees, the birds,
flowers, and rocks.

4. What Makes Human Beings Different than
Other Creatures?
 What made us “human beings” different than
other creatures down here on earth?
 We read that God created all creatures of the
world.
 So we going to look the Creation of Human Beings
 We want to see if it is any thing special about
it.
 Then God said let us make man in our Image and
likeness. So God created man in His own image.
 In the image of God. He created him: male and
female, He created them. (Gen. 1:26-27)

5. In His Images and Likeness
 God made us to be like Himself;
however, we know we are not God:
 He don’t get sick, or in trouble, like
we do.
 He is Powerful, and all good,
 And Yet we are like Him: God himself
said so!
 Our Job now, is to find out, How we
are like God?

7. How We are like God?
 Think about the world and all the things you have seen:
 Have you ever seen the starts, high mountains, and
oceans, plants and animals, etc.?
 God created all this things, and yet they can not do some
of the things, we humans can do.
 To start with: They can not think!
 Could you ever imagine a plant or animal wondering what
would be happen tomorrow?
 But you ever think about tomorrow
 You wonder what would happen in your next birthday
 Or maybe how you’ll do in your spelling text tomorrow.

8. Human Have the Power to Think
 We human have the power to think
 We can think!
 the plans and rocks can not,
 neither can dogs or cats, cows or giraffes, or any
other animals.
 It may seem that your dog or cat, think and
is smart…
but because God made animals with certain
abilities that dogs supposed to do.
 And we called this INSTINCT
 They know to go the bowl for dinner
 And run away form a big dog or other danger

10. All animals were created with Instinct.
 Let’s read some definitions of the word INSTINCT
1) an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common
to a given biological species.
2) a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.
3) a natural aptitude or gift: an instinct for survive
4) natural intuitive power.
 All animals were created with Instinct.
 This is how animals survive!
a) But have you ever heard from a dog that invented things?
b) Or have you ever seen a dog coloring a Pictures?
 A course not! The dogs don’t have that kind of mind, that
think such things.

11. Animals have a lower level of Brain Mark
 Animals, to figure things out, or to invent things,
 they have to learned to do treats to respond to things around them
 To follow orders of the masters,
 or to catch things,
 but this is a much lower level of Brain mark, than you and I can
do.
 People know how to build houses, generated electricity, make
yummy dinners,
 You and I can color
 We can even figure out how to make a 2nd color, or a 3rd color
 We can write our names
 We can make some calculations, etc.
 but not dogs, monkeys or any other animal could never think like
we think.

13. We Can Think, We Can Choose
 Because we human beings can think, we can also CHOOSE.
 The greater saints were very smart; they used their great
mind, and their beautiful way of explaining things to help
others to God.
 Often the better thinkers and writers of the Church are
called Doctors of the Church.
 ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: Golden mouth said:
 Human beings have a special Power of Thinking
 And a special power of Choosing that, there is unlike any
power that animals have.
 You too, must use your mind to help others to God.

14. God Gave Us the Power to Choose
 God gave us the power to choose,
 so that we can choose to love Him, so that we can choose to
be Happy.
 Rocks and plants cannot choose
 Animals cannot be happy the way we are either.
 Only human beings can Love
 Only we can be truly Happy
 True happiness come when we live with God.
 And we will be truly happy only in Heaven, and we will be
with God for ever.
 But being with God IN Heaven is not automatic; if we grow up, we
are growing in our abilities to make choice.
 And if we want to be with God ever, we have to choose to be.

15. “Power to Think, and Power to Choose”
“To Love and to Be Free”
 By having:
a) the Power of thinking,
b) and the power of choose
 It’s one way, of the same way, in which we are like
God.
 another ways we are like God:
c) Being able to Love (a Agape Love)
d) and Our Free Will
 God is free, and He made us free also.
 No one force God to created the world;
 God doesn’t have to created you and me.

17. God freely Chose to Brought his Love on Us
 Jesus come to earth to die for us. In all this cases
 God freely chose to brought his love on us, but no one
can force us to love God either,
 God made us free, so that we can choose to love
him, and other People, too.
 And when we choose to do good or reject evil, we are
choosing to love Him
 But God never forces us to do the right thing; we are
truly free!
 Many times we are given the choice between what is
good and what is bad;
 the Ideal is that you Use your free will to choose what is
good.

18. You have the Power of think and Choose
 You have the Power of think and Choose
 God doesn’t force you, he gave you free will, and he let you choose.
 The more often you choose to do the right thing, the freer you are,
 It become actually easy to do the right things, than the bad things.
 When you choose the bad things, you used your free will badly.
 If you do this a lot, it becomes harder, and harder to do the right
things.
 God gave you free will, so you can choose him
 HE is the only way, where you will find true and ever lasting happiness.

20. We are Responsible for Our Free Actions
We are responsible for our free actions,
But Animals are not responsible for their actions,
we can make choices; they cannot.
The Dogs don’t choose to bite someone,
He didn’t even know, he did something wrong. That’s his nature or
instinct.
a) He did it because either he was afraid, or responding to danger
b) Or he learned a bad habit,
c) Or he has being conditioned in that way.

21. We are Responsible for Our Free Actions
There is lots of things you can do, because you can think and choose.
You can do things that animals can't do.
You can read,
color, invent things,
write stories,
Work together to make a better world
Help or Care for others, etc.
But the most important thing is to chose to love God.
Animals can not do this;
they cant love God with their minds and hearts
The only creatures on earth that can love God –with their hearts and
reason— is the human beings
That means that only humans are truly happy, when choose God.

22. The Grace of God
“God’s Divine Life in our Soul”
GRACE: God’s Supernatural life in our soul.
do you remember your Baptism?
You can not know what was happening in the moment,
but it’s the most important day of your life!
When you were baptized, God came to live in you!
Do you know, how we called Life of God in our souls?
we called God’s Divine life GRACE,
GRACE is God’s life in us, and when God comes to live in us, we are rise up
to be a new kind of Creature.

23. The Grace of God
“God’s Divine Life in our Soul”
 Now, we are know as the children of our Parents,
 but when we are baptized we also become Children of God
o We became his Children, and part of God’s Family.
o And as his children, He live in us,
o and he works in us in a very real way.
 God made us the kind of creature that is able to think and
to choose, and he gave us freedom to love Him.
o With his Grace he strengthen our will.
o And illuminates our reason.

24. God lives in us
“He Moves us to Do the Good”
 But God doesn’t expects us to do all that for ourselves
 Instead he come so very close to us, that He lives in us and
moves us to do all the good that we do.
 He always loves us and by His Grace, he made us able to
choose to love Him more and more
 For example:
 You may notice that is often hard to do what is good,
 if you going to get in trouble, it is easy to lie than to tell the truth
 God doesn’t force you to tell the Truth,
 but he give you all that you need, (His GRACE), so that you can
choose what is right.

25. WE can Think & We can Choose!
 We have learned about the special Powers that humans have.
o We can think
o We can choose
o God intended that way for us.
 Who lives in us, choosing us, to choose the Truth? God is!
o His life in us is called Grace
o God made you and me this way, so that we’ll be able to freely choose to
love Him and others.
 And if we do this, we will find True Happiness
a) Next time is about Happiness and
b) What would make us truly Happy?