God and His Word
According to Question 1, what is the chief end of man?
To glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
Out of what did God make all things in the work of creation, and how long did it take?
Out of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days (and all very good).
Who is the only Redeemer of God's elect?
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Who applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
Holy Spirit
What did God reveal to man as the rule of his obedience, and where is it summarily comprehended?
The moral law, which is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments.
What is the only rule given by God to direct us on how we may glorify and enjoy Him?
AKA What did God give us to know how to glorify and enjoy Him?
The Word of God, contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.
What is the definition of "sin"?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
What three offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
The offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king.
What act of God's free grace pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight?
Justification
What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? (What two core things are we commanded to do?)
To love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.
What two principal things do the Scriptures teach us?
What man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
What specific sin caused our first parents to fall from the estate they were created in?
Eating the forbidden fruit.
How did Christ, being the eternal Son of God, become man?
By taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary, yet without sin.
What act of God's free grace receives us into the number, and gives us a right to all the privileges of, the sons of God?
Adoption
What is forbidden in the Second Commandment?
The worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.
How many Gods are there?
There is but one only, the living and true God.
Why did all mankind fall into sin and misery through Adam’s first disobedience instead of just Adam alone?
Because the covenant was made with Adam not only for himself, but for his posterity (descendants).
In executing His office as a priest, what two major things did Christ do?
He offered up himself a sacrifice once to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God, and He makes continual intercession for us.
What is the difference between Justification and Sanctification?
Justification is an act of God's grace changing our legal status (pardoning sin/accounting righteous)
Sanctification is a work of God's grace changing our nature (renewing us in the whole man after the image of God to die to sin).
What is required in the Third Commandment?
The holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.
Name the three persons in the Godhead, and describe how they relate to each other in power
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; they are the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery. What three things make up the "sinfulness" of that estate?
The guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want (lack) of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature (Original Sin), along with actual transgressions.
Name two aspects of Christ’s humiliation and two aspects of His exaltation.
Humiliation: His birth in a low condition, being under the law, miseries of this life, God's wrath, the cursed death of the cross, being buried. Exaltation: His resurrection on the third day, ascending into heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, and coming to judge the world at the last day.
What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?
Their souls are made perfect in holiness and immediately pass into glory; their bodies, still united to Christ, rest in their graves till the resurrection.
What is the reason for the 4th commandment?
God’s allowing us six days for our own employment, His claiming a special propriety (ownership) in the seventh, His own example, and His blessing the Sabbath day.