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Yourlife CH3
Yourlife CH3
Yourlife CH3
Chapter 3
Law
as a
Guide
to Freedom
The Need for Boundaries to Freedom
RESPONSIBILITY
Response Ability
Respond to the God’s grace enables good
command: “Love decisions along with
one another as I human talents, strengths,
have loved you.” insights and deeds.
• Abuse of freedom always results in sin: “By deviating from the moral
law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within
himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine
truth” (CCC, 1740).
Inordinate
Habit Duress Inadvertence Ignorance
Attachments
Responsibility
Law and Morality
Natural Law according to St. Thomas Aquinas