The Creeds and Confessions of Christendom
Small Children’s Catechism
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.
