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Belonging to God: A First CatechismApproved by the 210th General Assembly (1998) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Question 1. Who are you?
I am a child of God.
Question 2. What does it mean to be a child of God?
That I belong to God, who loves me.
Question 3. What makes you a child of God?
Grace -- God's free gift of love that I do not deserve and cannot earn.
Question 4. Don't you have to be good for God to love you?
No. God loves me in spite of all I do wrong.
Question 5. How do you thank God for this gift of love?
I promise to love and trust God with all my heart.
Question 6. How do you love God?
By worshipping God, by loving others, and by respecting what God has created.
Question 7. What did God create?
God created all that is, seen and unseen.
Question 8. What is special about human beings?
God made us, male and female, in the image of God.
Question 9. What does it mean that we are made in God's image?
It means we are made to reflect God's goodness, wisdom and love.
Question 10. Why, then, do we human beings often act in destructive and hateful
ways?
Because we have turned away from God and fallen into sin.
Question 11. What is sin?
Sin is closing our hearts to God and disobeying God's law.
Question 12. What are the results of sin?
Our relationship with God is broken. All our relations with others are confused.
, Question 13. How does God deal with us as sinners?
God hates our sin, but never stops loving us.
Question 14. What did God do to help us?
God chose the people of Israel to make a new beginning. They received God's covenant,
and prepared the way for Jesus to come as our Savior.
Question 15. What is the covenant?
The covenant is an everlasting agreement between God and Israel.
Question 16. What is in this agreement?
When God called Abraham and Sarah, God promised to bless their family, which was
later called Israel. Through the people of Israel, God vowed to bless all the peoples of the
earth. God promised to be Israel's God, and they promised to be God's people. God
vowed to love Israel and to be their hope forever, and Israel vowed to worship and serve
only God.
Question 17. How did God keep this covenant?
God led Israel out of slavery in Egypt, gave them the Ten Commandments through
Moses, and brought them into the land that God had promised.
Question 18. What are the Ten Commandments?
The Ten Commandments are the law of God. When God gave them to Moses, God said, I
am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery:
(1) You shall have no other gods before me.
(2) You shall not make for yourself an idol.
(3) You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God.
(4) Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
(5) Honor your father and your mother.
(6) You shall not murder.
(7) You shall not commit adultery.
(8) You shall not steal.
(9) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
(10) You shall not covet what is your neighbor's.
Question 19. What is the main point of these commandments?
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and strength; and you shall
love your neighbor as yourself.
Question 20. Did the people keep their covenant with God?
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