God and Creation
What is the one thing every person should glorify and enjoy forever?
God
What happened when Adam and Eve disobeyed God?
Sin entered the world
Where does God summarize His moral law?
Answer: In the Ten Commandments
Who is the only Savior God provided for sinners?
How are people saved?
Answer: By God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ
Why did God create people?
To know Him, love Him, live for Him, and glorify Him
What do all people inherit from Adam after the fall?
Answer: A sinful nature
What is the greatest commandment?
Answer: To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength
Why did Jesus have to become fully human?
Answer: So He could obey and suffer in our place
What should good works show about a Christian?
Answer: Gratitude to God and a changed life
What makes people different from the rest of creation?
We are made in the image of God
Why do people still sin even when they know what is right?
Answer: Because our hearts are sinful by nature
What command did Jesus say is second and like the first?
Answer: Love your neighbor as yourself
Why did Jesus have to be fully God?
Answer: So His obedience and sacrifice would be perfect and powerful enough to save sinners
What does it mean to be Justified?
Justification means our declared righteousness before God
What was man's role in creation?
What does sin deserve from God?
Answer: God’s judgment and punishment
What are the first 3 commandments?
Love the Lord your God and no other
Do not make Idols
Do not use the Lord's Name in vain
What did Jesus accomplish by dying on the cross?
Answer: He paid for sin and reconciled us to God
What is Sanctification?
Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness.
How many persons are there in God?
Respond with Catechism answer
There are three persons in the one true and living God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
What is sin?
Respond with Catechism answer
Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, not being or doing what he requires in his law.
Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?
Respond with Catechism answer
That we may know the holy nature of God, and the sinful nature of our hearts; and thus our need of a Savior.
Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?
Respond with Catechism answer
Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God will remember our sins no more.
What is faith in Jesus Christ?
Respond with Catechism answer
Receiving and resting on him alone for salvation as he is offered to us in the gospel.