Q. 2. What else did God make?
A. God made all things (Gen. 1:1).

Q. 3. Why did God make you and all things?
A. For his own glory (Rom. 11:36).

Q. 4. How can you glorify God?
A. By loving him and doing what he commands (Deut. 6:5, 6).

Q. 5. Why ought you to glorify God?
A. Because he made me and takes care of me (Rev. 4:11).

Q. 6. Where do you learn how to glorify God?
A. In the Bible alone (Psa. 119:9).

Q. 7. What does the Bible teach us?
A. The Bible teaches us who God is and what he requires of us (2 Tim. 3:16, 17).

Q. 8. Who wrote the Bible
A. Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21).

Q. 9. What is God?
A. God is Spirit and does not have a body like men (John 4:24).

Q. 10. Are there more gods than one?
A. No, there is only one God (Isa. 44:6b).

Q. 11. In how many persons does this one God exist?
A. In three persons (2 Cor. 13:14).

Q. 12. Who are they?
A. The Father, the Son , and the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19).

Q. 13. Where is God?
A. God is everywhere (Ps. 139:7, 8).

Q. 14. Can you see God?
A. No, I cannot see God, but he always sees me (John 1:18a, Jer. 23:24a, Heb. 4:13).

Q. 15. Does God know all things?
A. Yes, nothing can be hid from God (Heb. 4:13).

Q. 16. Can God do all things?
A. Yes, God does all his holy will (Mark 10:27).

Q. 17. Who were our first parents?
A. Adam and Eve (Gen. 2:7, 22).

Q. 18. Of what were our first parents made?
A. God made the body of Adam out of the ground and formed Eve from the body of Adam (Gen. 2:7, 22).

Q. 19. In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
A. He made them holy and happy ( Eccl. 7:29b, Gen. 1:31a).

Q. 20. What relationship did Adam have with God?
A. A relationship of sonship (Luke 3:38).

Q. 21. What did God command Adam to do?
A. To obey him perfectly (Gen. 2:16, 17).

Q. 22. What did God promise Adam?
A. To reward Adam with life if he obeyed him (Gen. 2:16, 17).

Q. 23. With what did God threaten Adam?
A. To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed him (Gen. 2:16, 17).

Q. 24. Did Adam obey God?
A. No, he sinned against God (Gen. 3:6).

Q. 25. What is sin?
A. Sin is any lack of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4).

Q. 26. What is meant by lack of conformity?
A. Not being or doing what God requires (Jas. 4:17).

Q. 27. What is meant by transgression?
A. Doing what God forbids (Jas. 2:10).

Q. 28. What was the sin of our first parents?
A. Eating the forbidden fruit (Gen. 3:6).

Q. 29. Who tempted them to this sin?
A. The devil tempted Eve and she gave the fruit to Adam (Gen. 3:4, 5).

Q. 30. What befell our first parents when they had sinned?
A. Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable (Rom. 5:12).

Q. 31. Did Adam act for himself alone when he sinned?
A. No, he represented all his posterity (Rom. 5:19).

Q. 32. What effect had the sin of Adam on all mankind
A. All mankind are born in a state of sin and misery (Eph. 2:3b).

Q. 33. What is that sinful nature which we inherit from Adam called?
A. Original sin (Psa. 51:5).

Q. 34. Did God leave all mankind to perish in a state of sin and misery?
A. No, God purposed to save his people by sending a Redeemer (Eph. 1:4, 5).

Q. 35. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
A. The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 2:5).

Q. 36. Who is Jesus Christ?
A. Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God (John 20:31).

Q. 37. How did Jesus Christ redeem his people?
A. He kept the whole law for his people and suffered the punishment their sins deserved (Rom. 5:18).

Q. 38. How could the eternal Son of God obey and suffer for his people?
A. Christ, the Son of God, became man in order to obey and suffer for us (Heb.2:14).

Q. 39. How did the Son of God become man?
A. He was born of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:18b).

Q. 40. Did the Lord Jesus Christ ever sin as all other men do?
A. No, he was holy, blameless, and pure (Heb. 7:26).

Q. 41. What offices has Christ?
A. Christ has the offices of prophet, priest, and king (Rev. 1:5).

Q. 42. How is Christ a prophet?
A. He teaches us the will of God (Acts 3:22).

Q. 43. How is Christ a priest?
A. He died for our sins and pleads with God for us (Rom. 8:34).

Q. 44. How is Christ a king?
A. He rules over us and defends us (1 Cor. 15:25).

Q. 45. Why do you need Christ as a prophet?
A. Because I am ignorant (Rom. 3:11).

Q. 46 Why do you need Christ as a priest?
A. Because I am guilty (Rom. 3:23).

Q. 47 Why do you need Christ as a king?
A. Because I am weak and helpless (Psa. 56:3).

Q. 48. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
A. A life of poverty and suffering (Isa. 53:3).

Q. 49. What kind of death did Christ die?
A. The painful and shameful death of the cross (Phil. 2:8).

Q. 50. Did Christ remain in the grave after his crucifixion?
A. No, he rose from the dead on the third day (1 Cor. 15:4).

Q. 51. Where is Christ now?
A. In heaven, at the right hand of God the Father (Heb. 1:3b).

Q. 52. Will Christ come to this earth again?
A. Yes, he will come to judge the world at the last day (Rev. 22:12).

Q. 53. How does Christ's redemption become mine?
A. By God's effectual call (2 Tim. 1:9).

Q. 54. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God in bringing sinners to Christ (John 6:44).

Q. 55. Where do sinners hear of Christ?
A. In the Gospel which freely offers Christ to all (John 3:16).

Q. 56. What blessings do sinners who are effectually called receive in this life?
A. The blessings of justification, adoption, and sanctification (1 Cor. 1:30).

Q. 57. What is justification?
A. Justification is God's forgiving sinners and declaring them to be righteous (2 Cor. 5:21).

Q. 58. What is adoption?
A. Adoption is God's receiving sinners into his family as his own dear children (1 John 3:1a).

Q. 59. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is God's making sinners holy in heart and conduct (1 Thess. 5:23).

Q. 60. What becomes of the righteous at death?
A. Their body returns to the dust and their spirit goes to be with the Lord (2 Cor. 5:8).

Q. 61. What becomes of the wicked at death?
A. They suffer punishment while they are kept by God for the day of judgment (Luke 16:22b-23a).

Q. 62. Will the dead be raised to life again?
A. Yes, all the dead shall be raised when Christ comes again (1 Thess. 4:16).

Q. 63. What will become of the wicked in the day of judgment?
A. They shall be cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:15).

Q. 64. What is the lake of fire?
A. A place of dreadful and endless punishment (Mark 9:48).

Q. 65. What will become of the righteous in the day of judgment?
A. They shall enter the Father's kingdom in the new heaven and new earth (Matt. 25:34).

Q. 66. What is the new heaven and new earth?
A. The place where God will dwell forever with his people (Rev. 21:3).

Q. 67. What is the duty which God requires of man?
A. Obedience to his revealed will (Micah 6:8).

Q. 68. What is God's revealed will?
A. God's revealed will is his law, which is holy, just, and good (Rom. 7:12).

Q. 69. Where is God's law summarized?
A. In the ten commandments (Deut. 4:13).

Q. 70. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. To love God with all my heart and my neighbor as myself (Matt. 22:37-40).

Q. 71. Who is your neighbor?
A. All my fellow men are my neighbors (Matt. 22:37-40).

Q. 72. What is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Exod. 20:3).

Q. 73. What does the first commandment teach us?
A. To worship God alone (Matt. 4:10).

Q. 74. What is the second commandment?
A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments (Exod. 20:4).

Q. 75. What does the second commandment teach us?
A. To worship God in a proper manner, and to avoid idolatry (Deut. 12:32).

Q. 76. What is the third commandment?
A. The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain (Exod. 20:7).

Q. 77. What does the third commandment teach us?
A. To reverence God's name, word, and works (Rev. 15:3b-4a).

Q. 78. What is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do 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 is in them, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day, and hallowed it (Exod. 20:8).

Q. 79. What does the fourth commandment teach us?
A. To keep the Sabbath holy (Deut. 5:12).

Q. 80. What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
A. The first day of the week, called the Lord's day (Acts 20:7).

Q. 81. Why is it called the Lord's day?
A. Because on that day Christ rose from the dead (John 20:1).

Q. 82. How should the Lord's day be spent?
A. In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading God's Word, and in doing good to our fellow men (Lev. 23:3, Matt. 12:12).

Q. 83. What is the fifth commandment?
A. 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 (Exod. 20:12).

Q. 84. What does the fifth commandment teach us?
A. To love and obey our parents and teachers (Eph. 6:1).

Q. 85. What is the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill (Exod. 20:13).

Q. 86. What does the sixth commandment teach us?
A. To love in heart, speech, and conduct (Ps. 82:3, 4).

Q. 87. What is the seventh commandment?
A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery (Exod. 20:14).

Q. 88. What does the seventh commandment teach us?
A. To be pure in heart, speech, and conduct (Eph. 5:3-4b).

Q. 89. What is the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal (Exod. 20:15).

Q. 90. What does the eighth commandment teach us?
A. To be honest and industrious (Eph. 4:28).

Q. 91. What is the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor ( Exod. 20:16).

Q. 92. What does the ninth commandment teach us?
A. To tell the truth (Prov. 12:22).

Q. 93. What is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any-thing that is thy neighbor's (Exod. 20:17).

Q. 94. What does the tenth commandment teach us?
A. To be content with our lot (Heb. 13: 5).

Q. 95. Can any man keep these ten commandments perfectly?
A. No mere man, since the fall of Adam, ever did or can keep the ten commandments perfectly (Eccles. 7:20).

Q. 96. Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
A. They teach us our duty and show us our need of a Saviour (Rom. 3:20).

Q. 97. What does every sin deserve?
A. The wrath and curse of God (Gal. 3:10).

Q. 98. Who will escape the wrath of God?
A. Only those who repent of sin, believe in Christ, and lead holy lives (Mark 1:15).

Q. 99. What is it to repent?
A. To be sorry for sin, and to hate and forsake it because it is displeasing to God (Joel 2:13).

Q.100. What is it to believe or have faith in Christ?
A. To trust in Christ alone for salvation (John 1:12).

Q.101. How many sacraments are there?
A. Two (Matt. 28:18-19a, 1 Cor. 11:23a, 26).

Q.102. What are they?
A. Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Matt. 28:18-19a, 1 Cor. 11:23a, 26).

Q.103. Who appointed these sacraments?
A. The Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 28:18-19a, 1 Cor. 11:23a, 26).

Q.104. Why did Christ appoint these sacraments?
A. To distinguish his disciples from the world, and to comfort and strengthen them (Matt. 28:18-19a, 1 Cor. 11:23a, 26).

Q.105. What is the mode of baptism?
A. Immersion in water (John 3:23).

Q.106. What does baptism represent?
A. Union with Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:3).

Q.107. In whose name are we baptized?
A. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19).

Q.108. Who are to be baptized?
A. Believers only (Acts 2:41).

Q.109. To what does baptism bind you?
A. To be a true follower of Christ (Rom. 6:4).

Q.110. What is the Lord's Supper?
A. The eating of bread and drinking of the cup in remembrance of the sufferings and death of Christ (Luke 22:19, 20).

Q.111. What does the bread represent?
A. The body of Christ, broken for our sins (Luke 22:19, 20).

Q.112. What does the cup represent?
A. The blood of Christ, shed for our salvation (Luke 22:19, 20).

Q.113. Who should partake of the Lord's Supper?
A. Only those who repent of their sins, believe in Christ for salvation, and love their fellow men (1 Cor. 11:28, 29).

Q.114. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is asking God for things which he has promised to give (Phil. 4:6).

Q.115. In whose name should we pray?
A. Only in the name of Christ (John 16:23, 24).

Q.116. What has Christ given us to teach us how to pray?
A. The Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13).

Q.117. Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
A. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen (Matt. 6:9-13).

Q.118. How many petitions are there in the Lord's Prayer?
A. Six (Matt. 6:9-13).

Q.119. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. "Hallowed be thy name" (Matt. 6:9).

Q.120. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. That God's name may be honored by us and all men (Ps. 67:3).

Q.121. What is the second petition?
A. "Thy kingdom come" (Matt. 6:10).

Q.122. What do we pray for in the second petition?
A. That the gospel may be preached in all the world, and believed and obeyed by us and all men (2 Thess. 3:1).

Q.123. What is the third petition?
A. "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10).

Q.124. What do we pray for in the third petition?
A. That men on earth may serve God as the angels do in heaven (Ps. 103:20, 22).

Q.125. What is the fourth petition?
A. "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6:11).

Q.126. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
A. That God would give us all things needful for our bodies and souls (Prov. 30:8).

Q.127. What is the fifth petition?
A. "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" (Matt. 6:12).

Q.128. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
A. That God would pardon our sins for Christ's sake, and enable us to forgive those who have injured us (1 John 1:9,Matt. 6:14).

Q.129. What is the sixth petition?
A. "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Matt. 6:13).

Q.130. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. That God would keep us from sin (Ps. 19:13).