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A Baptist Catechism for Young Children
Instructions for use: This catechism should be begun when a child is approximately 2 years old and should be totally completed by the time the child is 8 years old. Questions and answers should be memorized completely and accurately.
Q. 1. Who made you?
A. God/ Jesus
Q. 2. What else did God (Jesus) make?
A. All things.
Q. 3. Why did God make you and all things?
A. For his own glory.
Q. 4. How can you glorify God?
A. By loving him and doing what he says
Q. 5. Why should you to glorify God?
A. Because he loves me and takes care of me.
Q. 6. How many gods are there?
A. There is only one God.
Q. 7. In how many persons does God exist?
A. Three persons.
Q. 8. Who are they?
A. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Q. 9. Where is God?
A. God is everywhere.
Q. l0. Can you see God?
A. No; I cannot see God, but he always sees me.
Q. 11. Does God know all things?
A. Yes; nothing can be hid from God.
Q. 12. Can God do all things?
A. Yes; God can do all his holy will.
Q. 13. Where do you learn how to love and obey God?
A. In the Bible alone.
Q. 14. Who wrote the Bible?
A. Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit.
Q. 15. Who were our first parents?
A. Adam and Eve.
Q. 16. 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.
Q. 17. What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
A. He gave them souls that could never die.
Q. 18. Have you a soul as well as a body?
A. Yes; I have a soul that can never die.
Q. 19. How do you know that you have a soul?
A. Because the Bible tells me so.
Q. 20. In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
A. He made them holy and happy.
Q. 21. What is a covenant?
A. An agreement between two or more persons.
Q. 22. What covenant did God make with Adam?
A. The covenant of works.
Q.23. What was Adam bound to do by the covenant of works?
A. To obey God perfectly.
Q. 24. What did God promise in the covenant of works?
A. To reward Adam with life if he obeyed him.
Q. 25. What did God threaten in the covenant of works?
A. To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed.
Q. 26. Did Adam keep the covenant of works?
A. No; he sinned against God.
Q. 27. What is Sin?
A. Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.
Q. 28. What is meant by “want of conformity”?
A. Not being or doing what God requires.
Q. 29. What is meant by “transgression”?
A. Doing what God forbids.
Q. 30. What was the sin of our first parents?
A. Eating the forbidden fruit.
Q. 31. Who tempted them to this sin?
A. The devil tempted Eve, and she gave the fruit to Adam.
Q. 32. What happened to our first parents when they had sinned?
A. Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable.
Q. 33. Did Adam act for himself alone in the covenant of works?
A. No; he represented all his descendents, all mankind.
Q. 34. What effect did the sin of Adam have on all mankind?
A. All mankind are born in a state of sin and misery.
Q. 35. What is that sinful nature which we inherit from Adam called?
A. Original sin.
Q. 36. What does every sin deserve?
A. The wrath and curse of God.
Q. 37. Can any one go to heaven with this sinful nature?
A. No; our hearts must be changed before we can be fit for heaven.
Q. 38. What is a change of heart called?
A. Regeneration.
Q. 39. Who can change a sinner’s heart?
A. The Holy Spirit alone.
Q. 40. Can any one be saved through the covenant of works?
A. None can be saved through the covenant of works.
Q. 41. Why can none be saved through the covenant of works?
A. Because all have broken it, and are condemned by it
Q. 42. With whom did God the Father make the covenant of grace?
A. With Jesus Christ, his eternal Son.
Q. 43. Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?
A. His elect people.
Q. 44. What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace?
A. To keep the whole law for his people, and to suffer the punishment for their sins.
Q. 45. Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever commit the smallest sin?
A. No; he was holy and undefiled.
Q. 46. How could the Son of God suffer?
A. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became a man that He might obey and suffer in our nature.
Q. 47. What is meant by the Atonement?
A. Christ’s satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners.
Q. 48. What did God the Father undertake in the covenant of grace?
A. To justify and sanctify those for whom Christ should die.
Q. 49. What justification?
A. It is God declaring sinners forgiven, and treating them as if they had never sinned.
Q. 50. What is sanctification?
A. It is God’s making sinners holy in heart and conduct.
Q. 51. For whom did Christ obey and suffer?
A. For those whom the Father had given him.
Q. 52. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
A. A life of poverty and suffering.
Q. 53. What kind of death did Christ die?
A. The painful and shameful death of the cross.
Q. 54. Who will be saved?
A. Only those who repent of sin, believe in Christ, and lead holy lives.
Q. 55. What is it to repent?
A. To be sorry for sin, and to hate and forsake it because it is displeasing to God.
Q. 56. What is it to believe or have faith in Christ?
A. To trust in Christ alone for salvation.
Q. 57. Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own power?
A. No; I can do nothing good without the help of God’s Holy Spirit.
Q. 58. How can you get the help of the Holy Spirit?
A. God has told us that we must pray to him for the Holy Spirit.
Q. 59. How long ago is it since Christ died?
A. More than nineteen hundred years.
Q. 60. How were pious persons saved before the coming of Christ?
A. By believing in a Savior to come.
Q. 61. How did they show their faith?
A. By offering sacrifices on God’s altar.
Q. 62. What did these sacrifices represent?
A. Christ, the Lamb of God, who was to die for sinners.
Q. 63. What offices has Christ?
A. Christ has three offices.
Q. 64. What are they?
A. The offices of prophet, of priest, and of king.
Q. 65. How is Christ a prophet?
A. Because he teaches us the will of God.
Q. 66. How is Christ a priest?
A. Because he died for our sins and pleads with God for us.
Q.67. How is Christ a king?
A. Because he rules over us and defends us.
Q. 68. Why do you need Christ as a prophet?
A. Because I am ignorant.
Q. 69. Why do you need Christ as a priest?
A. Because I am guilty.
Q. 70. Why do you need Christ as a king?
A. Because I am weak and helpless.
Q. 71. How many commandments did God give to Moses on
A. Ten commandments.
Q. 72. What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
A. The Decalogue.
Q. 73. What do the first four commandments teach?
A. Our duty to God.
Q. 74. What do the last six commandments teach?
A. Our duty to our fellow men.
Q. 75. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. To love God with all my heart, and to love my neighbor as myself.
Q. 76. Who is your neighbor?
A. All my fellow men are my neighbors.
Q. 77. Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
A. Yes; he says, “I love those who love me.” (Prov.8: 17)
Q. 78. Is God displeased with those who do not love and obey him?
A. Yes; “God is angry with the wicked every day.” (Ps.7:11)
Q. 79. What is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, 3 You shall have no other gods before
Q. 80. What does the first commandment teach us?
A. To worship God alone.
Q. 81. What is the second commandment?
A. The second commandment is,4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Exodus 20:4-6 (NKJV)
Q. 82. What does the second commandment teach us?
A. To worship God in a proper manner, and to avoid idolatry.
Q. 83. What is the third commandment?
A. The third commandment is, "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” Exodus 20:7 (NKJV)
Q. 84. What does the third commandment teach me?
A. To reverence God’s name, word, and works.
Q. 85. What is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11 (NKJV)
Q. 86. What does the fourth commandment teach us?
A. To remember the Sabbath day and to keep it holy.
Q. 87. What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
A. Sunday, the first day of the week, called the Lord’s day.
Q. 88. Why is it called the Lord’s day?
A. Because on that day Christ rose from the dead.
Q. 89. How should the Sabbath be spent?
A. In resting from all work, in private and public acts of worship, and in doing good to our fellow man.
Q. 90. What is the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment is, 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Exodus
Q. 91. What does the fifth commandment teach me?
A. To love and obey our parents and those in authority over us.
Q. 92. What is the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment is, 13 "You shall not murder. Exodus
Q. 93. What does the sixth commandment teach us?
A. To avoid angry passions.
Q. 94. What is the seventh commandment?
A. The seventh commandment is, 14 "You shall not commit adultery. Exodus
Q. 95. What does the seventh commandment teach us?
A. To be pure in heart, language, and conduct.
Q. 96. What is the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment is, 15 "You shall not steal. Exodus
.Q. 97. What does the eighth commandment teach us?
A. To be honest and industrious.
Q. 98. What is the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment is, 16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus
Q. 99. What does the ninth commandment teach us?
A. To always tell the truth.
Q. 100. What is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is, 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
Exodus
Q. 101. What does the tenth commandment teach us?
A. To be content with that which God has provided.
Q. 102. 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.
Q. 103. Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
A. They teach us our duty, and show our need of a Savior.
Q. 104. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is asking God for things which he has promised to give.
Q. 105. In whose name should we pray?
A. Only in the name of Christ.
Q. 106. What has Christ given us to teach us how to pray?
A. The Lord’s Prayer.
Q. 107. Repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
9 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 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. Matthew 6:9-13 (KJV)
Q. 108. How many petitions are there in The Lord’s Prayer?
A. Six.
Q. 109. What is the first petition?
A. “Hallowed be thy name.”
Q. 110. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. That God’s name may be reverenced & honored by us and all men.
Q. 111. What is the second petition?
A. “Thy kingdom come.”
Q. 112. 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.
Q. 113. What is the third petition?
A. “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
Q. 114. What do we pray for in the third petition?
A. That men on earth may serve God as the angels do in heaven.
Q. 115. What is the fourth petition?
A. “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Q. 116. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
A. That God would give us all things needful for our bodies and souls.
Q. 117. What is the fifth petition?
A. “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Q. 118. 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.
Q. 119. What is the sixth petition?
A. “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Q. 120. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. That God would keep us from sin.
Q. 121. How many sacraments are there?
A. Two.
Q. 122. What are they?
A. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Q. 123 Who appointed these sacraments?
A. The Lord Jesus Christ.
Q. 124. Why did Christ appoint these sacraments?
A. To distinguish his disciples from the world, and to comfort and strengthen them.
Q. 125. What is baptism?
A. The quickly dipping of a person completely under water and then back up.
Q. 126. What is baptism a sign of?
A. That we have been united with Christ, and that we are cleansed from all sin by His blood.
Q. 127. In whose name are we baptized?
A. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Q. 128. Who are to be baptized?
A. Only persons who have exercised faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Q. 129. What is the Lord’s Supper?
A. The eating of bread and the drinking of the cup in remembrance of the sufferings and death of Christ.
Q. 130. What does the bread represent?
A. The body of Christ, broken for our sins.
Q. 131. What does the cup represent?
A. The blood of Christ, shed for our salvation.
Q. 132. 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.
Q. 133. Did Christ remain in the tomb after his crucifixion?
A. No; he rose from the tomb on the third day after his death.
Q. 134. Where is Christ now?
A. In heaven, interceding for sinners.
Q. 135. Will he come again?
A. Yes; at the last day Christ will come to judge the world.
Q. 136. What happens to men at death?
A. The body returns to dust, and the soul goes into the world of spirits.
Q. 137. Will the bodies of the dead be raised to life again?
A. Yes; “The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised.” (1 Cor.15:52)
Q. 138. What will become of the wicked in the Day of Judgment?
A. They shall he cast into hell.
Q. 139. What is hell?
A. A place of terrible and eternal torment.
Q. 140. What will become of the righteous?
A. They shall be taken to heaven.
Q. 141. What is heaven?
A. A glorious and happy place, where the righteous shall be forever with the
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