God
God.
Who made you?
Adam and Eve.
Who were our first parents?
The covenant of life.
What covenant did God make with Adam?
What is sin?
We are all born guilty and sinful.
What effect did the sin of Adam have on you and all people?
His elect people.
Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?
The painful and shameful death of the cross.
What kind of death did Jesus die?
Yes. God can do all His holy will.
Can God do all things?
God created man, male and female, after His own image.
How did God create man?
To obey God perfectly.
In the covenant of life, what did God require Adam to do?
Not being or doing what God requires.
What is meant by lack of conformity?
Original sin.
What is the sinful nature that we inherit from Adam called?
By the Lord Jesus Christ through the covenant of grace.
How, then, can you be saved?
Christ satisfied God's justice by his suffering and death as a substitute for sinners.
What is meant by the atonement?
No. There is only one true God.
Is there more than one true God?
God made Adam's body out of the ground and Eve's body out of a rib from Adam.
Of what were our first parents made?
To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed God.
What did God threaten in the covenant of life?
Doing what God forbids.
What is meant by transgression?
No. Our hearts must be changed before we can believe in Jesus and go to heaven.
Can anyone go to heaven with this sinful nature?
Christ obeyed the whole law for His people, and then suffered the punishment due for their sins.
How did Christ fulfill the covenant of grace?
To justify and sanctify all those for whom Christ died.
What does God the Father guarantee in the covenant of grace?
God is a Spirit and does not have a body like men.
What is God?
He gave them souls that will last forever.
What else did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
No. No one can be saved through the covenant of life.
Can anyone be saved through the covenant of life?
The wrath and curse of God.
What does every sin deserve?
The new birth, or regeneration.
What is this change of heart called?
For all whom God the Father gave to Christ.
For whom did Christ suffer?
God forgives all my sins and accepts me as righteous through Christ.
How does God justify you?
In how many persons does this one God exist?
He made them holy and happy.
In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
Because all have broken it and are condemned by it.
Why can't anyone be saved by the covenant of life?
Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable.
How did Adam and Eve change when they sinned?
The Holy Spirit alone.
Who can change a sinner's heart?
A life of obedience, service and suffering.
What kind of life did Christ live?
God makes me more and more holy in heart and conduct.
How does God sanctify you?