Lesson 1 Question 1: Who made you? Answer: God made me. Verse: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27) Lesson 2 Question 2: What else did God make? Answer: God made all things. Verse: For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things were created through him and for him. (Colossians 1:16) Lesson 3 Question 3: Why did God make you and all things? Answer: For his own glory Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) Lesson 4 Question 4: How can you glorify God? Answer: By loving him and doing what he commands Verse: By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love. (John 15:8-10) Lesson 5 Question 5: Why ought you to glorify God? Answer: Because he made me and takes care of me Verse: Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. (Revelation 4:11) Lesson 6 Review #1-5 1
Lesson 7 Question 6: Are there more gods than one? Answer: There is only one God. Verse: Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Lesson 8 Question 7: In how many persons does this one God exist? Answer: In three persons Verse: But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. (John 15:26) Lesson 9 Question 8: Who are they? Answer: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit Verse: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19) Lesson 10 Question 9: Who is God? Answer: God is a Spirit, and does not have a body like men. Verse: God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. (John 4:24) Lesson 11 Question 10: Where is God? Answer: God is everywhere. Verse: Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 23:24) Lesson 12 Review #6-10 2
Lesson 13 Review #1-10 Lesson 14 Review #1-10 Lesson 15 Question 11: Can you see God? Answer: No. I cannot see God, but he always sees me. Verse: No one has ever seen God; the only God who is at the Father s side, he has made him known. (John 1:18) Lesson 16 Question 12: Does God know all things? Answer: Yes. Nothing can be hidden from God. Verse: For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth 2 Chronicles 16:9 Lesson 17 Question 13: Can God do all things? Answer: Yes. God can do all his holy will. Verse: Ah, Lord God! It is you who has made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. Jeremiah 32:17 Lesson 18 Review #1-13 3
Lesson 19 Question 14: Where do you learn how to love and obey God? Answer: In the Bible alone Verse: and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:15 Lesson 20 Question 15: Who wrote the Bible? Answer: Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit Verse: All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16 Lesson 21 Question 16: Who were our first parents? Answer: Adam and Eve Verse: The man called his wife s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Genesis 3:20 Lesson 22 Question 17: Of what were our first parents made? Answer: God made the body of Adam out of the ground, and formed Eve from the body of Adam Verse: then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 2:7 Lesson 23 Question 18: What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies? Answer: He gave them souls that could never die Verse: and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 Lesson 24 Review #14-18 4
Lesson 25 Review #1-18 Lesson 26 Review #1-18 Lesson 27 Review #1-18 Lesson 28 Question 19: Have you a soul as well as a body? Answer: Yes. I have a soul that can never die Verse: And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28 Lesson 29 Question 20: How do you know that you have a soul? Answer: Because the Bible tells me so Verse: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:30 Lesson 30 Question 21: What is your soul? Answer: My soul includes all of me that should know and love God Verse: that he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith Ephesians 3:16b-17a Lesson 31 Review #19-21 5
Lesson 32 Question 22: In what condition did God make Adam and Eve? Answer: He made them holy and happy. Verse: God made man upright, but they sought out many schemes. Ecclesiastes 7:29b Lesson 33 Question 23: What did God command Adam to do? Answer: To obey him perfectly. Verse: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. Genesis 2:16-17 Lesson 34 Question 24: Did Adam obey God? Answer: No, he sinned against God Verse: So when the woman saw that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Genesis 3:6 Lesson 35 Question 25: What happened to our first parents when they had sinned? Answer: Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable. Verse: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. Romans 5:12 Lesson 36 Question 26: What effect did the sin of Adam have on all mankind? Answer: All mankind is born in a state of sin and misery Verse: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. Romans 5:12 6
Lesson 37 Question 27: What do we inherit from Adam as a result of this original sin? Answer: A sinful nature Verse: Behold I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Psalms 51:5 Lesson 38 Question 28: What is sin? Answer: Sin is any transgression of the law of God (doing what God forbids) Verse: Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. I John 3:4 Lesson 39 Question 29: What does every sin deserve? Answer: The anger and judgment of God Verse: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 Lesson 40 Question 30: Do we know what God requires of us? Answer: Yes, he has given us his law both in our hearts and in writing Verse: They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness... Romans 2:15 Lesson 41 - Review #22-30 7