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Children’s Catechism Questions and Answers1. Who made you? 18. What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
God. He gave them souls that could never die.
2. What else did God make? 19. Have you a soul as well as a body?
God made all things. Yes; I have a soul that can never die.
3. Why did God make you and all things? 20. How do you know that you have a soul?
For his own glory. Because the Bible tells me so.
4. How can you glorify God? 21. In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
By loving him and doing what he commands. He made them holy and happy.
5. Why ought you to glorify God? 22. What is a covenant?
Because he made me and takes care of me. An agreement between two or more persons.
6. Are there more gods than one? 23. What covenant did God make with Adam?
There is only one God. The covenant of works.
7. In how many persons does this one God exist? 24. What was Adam bound to do by the covenant of
In three persons. works?
To obey God perfectly.
8. What are they?
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 25. What did God promise in the covenant of works?
To reward Adam with life if he obeyed him.
9. What is God?
God is a Spirit, and has not a body like men. 26. What did God threaten in the covenant of works?
To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed.
10. Where is God?
God is everywhere. 27. Did Adam keep the covenant of works?
No; he sinned against God.
11. Can you see God?
No; I cannot see God, but he always sees me. 28. What is sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of
12. Does God know all things? the law of God.
Yes; nothing can be hid from God.
29. What is meant by want of conformity?
13. Can God do all things? Not being or doing what God requires.
Yes; God can do all his holy will.
30. What is meant by transgression?
14. Where do you learn how to love and obey God? Doing what God forbids.
In the Bible alone.
31. What was the sin of our first parents?
15. Who wrote the Bible? Eating the forbidden fruit.
Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit.
32. Who tempted them to this sin?
16. Who were our first parents? The devil tempted Eve, and she gave the fruit to Adam.
Adam and Eve.
33. What befell our first parents when they had sinned?
17. Of what were our first parents made? Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful
God made the body of Adam out of the ground, and and miserable.
formed Eve from the body of Adam.
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, 34. Did Adam act for himself alone in the covenant of 49. What did God the Father undertake in the covenant
works? of grace?
No; he represented all his posterity. To justify and sanctify those for whom Christ should
die.
35. What effect had the sin of Adam on all mankind?
All mankind are born in a state of sin and misery. 50. What is justification?
It is God's forgiving sinners, and treating them as if
36. What is that sinful nature which we inherit from they had never sinned.
Adam called?
Original sin. 51. What is sanctification?
It is God's making sinners holy in heart and conduct.
37. What does every sin deserve?
The wrath and curse of God. 52. For whom did Christ obey and suffer?
For those whom the Father had given him.
38. Can any one go to heaven with this sinful nature?
No; our hearts must be changed before we can be fit 53. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
for heaven. A life of poverty and suffering.
39. What is a change of heart called? 54. What kind of death did Christ die?
Regeneration. The painful and shameful death of the cross.
40. Who can change a sinner's heart? 55. Who will be saved?
The Holy Spirit alone. Only those who repent of sin, believe in Christ, and
lead holy lives.
41. Can anyone be saved through the covenant of
works? 56. What is it to repent?
None can be saved through the covenant of works. To be sorry for sin, and to hate and forsake it because
it is displeasing to God.
42. Why can none be saved through the covenant of
works? 57. What is it to believe or have faith in Christ?
Because all have broken it, and are condemned by it. To trust in Christ alone for salvation.
43. With whom did God the Father make the covenant of 58. Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own
grace? power?
With Christ, his eternal Son. No; I can do nothing good without the help of God's
Holy Spirit.
44. Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?
His elect people. 59. How can you get the help of the Holy Spirit?
God has told us that we must pray to him for the Holy
45. What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace? Spirit.
To keep the whole law for his people, and to suffer the
punishment due to their sins. 60. How long ago is it since Christ died?
More than two thousand years ago.
46. Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever commit the least sin?
No; he was holy, harmless, and undefiled. 61. How were pious persons saved before the coming of
Christ?
47. How could the Son of God suffer? By believing in a Savior to come.
Christ, the Son of God, became man that he might
obey and suffer in our nature. 62. How did they show their faith?
By offering sacrifices on God's altar.
48. What is meant by the Atonement?
Christ's satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and 63. What did these sacrifices represent?
death, in the place of sinners. Christ, the Lamb of God, who was to die for sinners.
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