God and Law
There are 3: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
Q3: How many persons are there in God?
The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom God became man and bore the penalty for sin himself.
Q20: Who is the Redeemer?
No, they should not, as everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ. To seek salvation through good works is a denial that Christ is the only Redeemer and Savior
Q33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works or anywhere else?
the washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, it signifies and seals our adoption into Christ, our cleansing from sin, and our commitment to belong to the Lord and to his church.
Q44: What is baptism?
The creator of everyone and everything.
Q2: What is God?
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below—you shall not bow down to them or worship them. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet.
Q8: What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?
One who is truly human and also truly God
Q21: What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and are still inclined to all evil, nevertheless, God, without any merit of our own but only by pure grace, imputes to us the perfect righteousness of Christ when we repent and believe in him.
Q29: How can we be saved?
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Q41: What is the Lord's Prayer?
pouring out our hearts to God in praise, petition, confession of sin, and thanksgiving.
Q38: What is prayer?
That we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves
Q7: What does the law of God require?
No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith. Nevertheless God in his mercy demonstrates common grace even to those who are not elect, by restraining the effects of sin and enabling works of culture for human well-being.
Q27: Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?
Convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us spiritual gifts and the desire to obey God. and he enables us to pray and to understand God's word.
Q37: How does the Holy Spirit help us?
Christ commanded all Christians to eat bread and to drink from the cup in thankful remembrance of him and his death. It is a celebration of the presence of God in our midst; bringing us into communion with God and with one another; feeding and nourishing our souls. It also anticipates the day when we will eat and drink with Christ in his Father’s kingdom.
Q46: What is the Lord's supper?
Rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, not being or doing what he requires in his law.
Q16: What is sin?
That we may know the holy nature of God, and the sinful nature of our hearts; and thus our need of a Savior
Q15: Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?
Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.
Q24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
Yes, because Christ, having redeemed us by his blood, also renews us by his Spirit; so that our lives may show love and gratitude to God; so that we may be assured of our faith by the fruits; and so that by our godly behavior others may be won to Christ.
Q34: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?
Christ rose bodily from the grave on the third day after his death and is seated at the right hand of the Father, ruling his kingdom and interceding for us, until he returns to judge and renew the whole world.
Q49: Where is Christ now?
Means our declared righteousness before God, made possible by Christ's death and resurrection for us. Means our gradual, growing righteousness, made possible by the Spirit's work in us.
Q32: What do justification and sanctification mean?
That we are not our own but belong to God
Q1: What is our only hope in life and death?
Yes, to satisfy his justice, God himself, out of mere mercy, reconciles us to himself and delivers us from sin and from the punishment for sin, by a Redeemer.
Q19: Is there any way to escape punishment and be brought back into God's favor?
Everything taught to us in the gospel. The Apostles Creed expresses what we believe in these words: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
Q31: What do we believe by true faith?
It reminds us that this present fallen world is not all there is; soon we will live with and enjoy God forever in the new city, in the new heaven and the new earth, where we will be fully and forever freed from all sin and will inhabit renewed, resurrection bodies in a renewed, restored creation.
Q52: What hope does everlasting life hold for us?
God chooses and preserves for himself a community elected for eternal life and united by faith, who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together. God sends out this community to proclaim the gospel and prefigure Christ’s kingdom by the quality of their life together and their love for one another.
Q48: What is the church?