| A | B |
| Human beings are made to be happy | Main idea 1 |
| only God can satisfy our desire for happiness | main idea 2 |
| "The desire for God is written in the human heart." | main idea 3 |
| People are naaturally religious: religion helps people to connect with God | main idea 4 |
| in spite of the prevalence of irreligion and secularism, most people still belong to an organized religion | main idea 5 |
| The one true God can be known with certainty from human reason | main idea 6 |
| St. Thomas Aquinas developed five precepts the prove the existence of God | Unmoved mover, First cause: nothing causes itself, Everything comes from something, Supreme model, Grand designer |
| However, human reason alone cannot really know what God is like | main idea 8 |
| God revealed himself through the events of salvation history beginning from cretion through covenants he formed with the chosen people | main idea 9 |
| Jesus Christ is God's fullest, complete, and final revelation. he is the only son of the father; he is God himself | main idea 10 |
| Divine revelation is recieved through a single Deposit of Fiath that is found in two places: Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture | main idea 11 |
| The Churches Magisterium conserves and hands out the single deposit of faith | main idea 12 |
| Faith, one of the three theological virtues, is our response to divine revelation | main idea 13 |