Salvation
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Catechism Question
100

The Redeemer had to be: Fully ______ and fully ______.

Fully God and Fully Man

100

Is salvation earned or is it a free gift?

Free Gift

Romans 6:23

100

Q21. What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?

One who is truly human and also truly God.

200

The wages of sin are: __________.

Death

Romans 6:23

200

Saved by _______ through ______.

"Grace" through "Faith"

200

Q22. Why must the Redeemer be truly human?

That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.

300

What Jesus told Nicodemus must first happen to everyone who enters the Kingdom of God

To be born again

300

What was the cost paid for our salvation?

Jesus's death upon the cross and all of the sufferings that were laid upon him.

300

Q25. Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?

Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God will remember our sins no more.

400

Jesus is a _________ stone to Jews and Gentiles who don't believe

"Stumbling" Stone 

1 Corinthians 1:23–24 

1 Peter 2:8–9

400
The resurrection is said to be the "________" for the payment of our sins by Jesus on the cross.

"Receipt" 

400

Q27. Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?

No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith.

500

Quote John 3:16 - word for word (from memory)

"For God so loved the world that he gave is only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but receive eternal life."

500

Those whom will be saved were chosen before the ______________ of the   __________. 

Before the "foundation" of the "world" 

Ephesians 1:4

500

Q29. How can we be saved?

Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross.