Small Children's Catechism
A catechism for the little ones.
(ND)
The
Small Children's Catechism (ND)
1.
Who made you?
Answer:
God.
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2.
What else did God make?
Answer:
God made all things.
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3.
Why did God make all things?
Answer:
For His own glory
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4.
Why do things work as they do?
Answer:
God has so decreed it.
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5.
How do we learn about God?
Answer:
God reveals Himself.
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6.
Where does God reveal Himself?
Answer:
In His word and in nature
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7.
What does God reveal in nature?
Answer:
His character, law, and wrath
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8.
What more is revealed in His Word?
Answer:
God's mercy toward His people
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9.
Where is God's Word today?
Answer:
The Bible is God's Word.
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10.
How many Gods are there?
Answer:
There is one true God.
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11.
How many persons are in the Godhead?
Answer:
three
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12.
Who are these persons?
Answer:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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13.
Where is God?
Answer:
He is everywhere.
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14.
How long has God existed?
Answer:
He has always been.
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15.
How is man unique?
Answer:
He bears God's image.
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16.
Who was the first man?
Answer:
Adam
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17.
What was Adam like at creation?
Answer:
He was good.
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18.
Did Adam remain good?
Answer:
No, he sinned.
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19.
What is sin?
Answer:
disobedience to God's law
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20.
What is the penalty for sin?
Answer:
death
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21.
What came of Adam's sin?
Answer:
Death came to all men.
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22.
Why did Adam's sin affect all men?
Answer:
We all sinned in Adam
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23.
Must all men die for sin?
Answer:
No, God elected some to life.
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24.
How may we be saved from sin and death?
Answer:
only through Jesus Christ
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25.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Answer:
He is God's Son. 26.
Did Jesus ever sin?
Answer:
No, only He is righteous.
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27.
What did Jesus do for His people?
Answer:
He conquered death.
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28.
How did He do this?
Answer:
He died, then rose again.
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29.
What else did Christ conquer?
Answer:
all his enemies
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30.
Are His enemies powerful?
Answer:
They have come to nothing.
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31.
What did He give to His people?
Answer:
His own righteousness
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32.
What did He take from His people?
Answer:
their sin
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33.
How is Christ's work brought to His people?
Answer:
by the Holy Spirit
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34.
What does the Holy Spirit do?
Answer:
He gives faith.
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35.
What is faith?
Answer:
resting on Christ for salvation
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36.
How do we recognize true faith?
Answer:
it yields good works
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37.
Who are Christ's people?
Answer:
they make up His church
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38.
What are the traits of His church?
Answer:
the Word, discipline, and sacraments
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39.
How is the Word a trait of His church?
Answer:
All God's Word is preached.
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40.
How is discipline a trait of His church?
Answer:
God's people are protected.
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41.
What are sacraments?
Answer:
signs and seals of God's covenant
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42.
What sacraments are there?
Answer:
baptism and the Lord's supper
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43.
Who is Head of the Church?
Answer:
Jesus Christ
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44.
What offices has Christ appointed?
Answer:
overseers and deacons
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45.
Is His Church perfect?
Answer:
It is being perfected.
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46.
When will it be perfect?
Answer:
at the resurrection
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47.
What happens at the resurrection?
Answer:
Christ judges all men's deeds.
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48.
What of those He deems righteous?
Answer:
They dwell with Him forever.
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49.
What of those He condemns?
Answer:
They perish forever.
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50.
How does this judgment affect Christ?
Answer:
It magnifies His glory. |
