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QUESTION 18. What did God give Adam and Eve besides
bodies?
ANSWER. He gave them souls that could never die.
QUESTION 19. Have you a soul as well as a body?
ANSWER. Yes; I have a soul that can never die.
QUESTION 20. How do you know that you have a soul?
ANSWER. Because the Bible tells me so.
QUESTION 21. In what condition did God make Adam and
Eve?
ANSWER. He made them holy and happy.
QUESTION 22. What is a covenant?
ANSWER. A covenant is a relationship between two or more
persons.
QUESTION 23. What was Adams relationship with God when
he was created?
ANSWER. Adam was created in the covenant of Gods favor.
QUESTION 24. In this covenant, what did God require of
Adam?
ANSWER. God required Adam to believe him, and to obey his
commands.
QUESTION 33. What befell our first parents when they had
sinned?
ANSWER. Instead of being holy and happy, they became
sinful and miserable.
QUESTION 34. Did Adam act for himself alone when he fell
into sin?
ANSWER. No; he represented all his posterity.
QUESTION 35. What effect had the sin of Adam on all
mankind?
ANSWER. All mankind are born in a state of sin and misery.
QUESTION 36. What is that sinful nature which we inherit
from Adam called?
ANSWER. Original sin.
QUESTION 37. What does every sin deserve?
ANSWER. The wrath and curse of God.
QUESTION 38. Can any one go to heaven with this sinful
nature?
ANSWER. No; our hearts must be changed before we can be
fit for heaven.
QUESTION 46. How could the Son of God suffer and die?
ANSWER. Christ, the Son of God, became man that he might
suffer and die in our nature.
QUESTION 47. Why was it necessary that Christ become a
man?
ANSWER. Because only a true man could pay for mans sins.
QUESTION 48. What is meant by the Atonement?
ANSWER. Christs satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings
and death, in the place of sinners.
QUESTION 49. What did God the Father undertake in the
covenant of redemption?
ANSWER. To justify and sanctify those for whom Christ should
die.
QUESTION 50. What is justification?
ANSWER. It is Gods forgiving sinners, and treating them as if
they had never sinned.
QUESTION 51. What is sanctification?
ANSWER. It is Gods making sinners holy in heart and
conduct.
QUESTION 59. How can you get the help of the Holy Spirit?
ANSWER. God has told us that we must pray to him for the
Holy Spirit.
QUESTION 60. How long ago is it since Christ died?
ANSWER. More than nineteen hundred years.
QUESTION 61. How were pious persons saved before the
coming of Christ?
ANSWER. By believing in a the same Christ, before he
became a man.
QUESTION 62. How did they show their faith?
ANSWER. By offering sacrifices on Gods altar.
QUESTION 63. What did these sacrifices represent?
ANSWER. Christ, the Lamb of God, who was to die for sinners.
QUESTION 64. What offices has Christ?
ANSWER. Christ has three offices.
QUESTION 65. What are they?
ANSWER. The offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king.
QUESTION 66. How is Christ a prophet?
ANSWER. Because he teaches us the will of God.
all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,
nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in
six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the
Lord blessed the Sabbath Day, and hallowed it.
QUESTION 87. What does the fourth commandment teach
us?
ANSWER. To keep the Sabbath holy.
QUESTION 88. What day of the week is the Christian
Sabbath?
ANSWER. The first day of the week, called the Lords day.
QUESTION 89. Why is it called the Lords day?
ANSWER. Because on that day Christ rose from the dead.
QUESTION 90. How should the Sabbath be spent?
ANSWER. In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading Gods
Word, and in doing good to our fellow men.
QUESTION 91. What is the fifth commandment?
ANSWER. The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and
thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which
the Lord thy God giveth thee.
QUESTION 92. What does the fifth commandment teach me?
ANSWER. To love and obey our parents and teachers.
QUESTION 93. What is the sixth commandment?
ANSWER. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.
QUESTION 94. What does the sixth commandment teach us?
ANSWER. To avoid angry passions.
QUESTION 95. What is the seventh commandment?
ANSWER. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not
commit adultery.
QUESTION 96. What does the seventh commandment teach
us?
ANSWER. To be pure in heart, language, and conduct.
QUESTION 97. What is the eighth commandment?
ANSWER. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.
QUESTION 98. What does the eighth commandment teach
us?
ANSWER. To be honest and industrious.