Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 1 to 28

#1. What is the chief purpose for which man is made? (Q1)

Select all that apply:

To seek himself or make himself great.

To enjoy the profits or pleasures of the world.

To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

To be happy and glorify God forever.

#2. What rule has God given to direct us how to glorify and enjoy him? (Q2)

Select all that apply:

We receive sufficient direction from our own wisdom or the light of nature.

We receive sufficient direction from God’s works of creation and providence only.

The word of God is the only rule.

We must daily expect new revelations from heaven.

The word of God is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments only.

The word of God is contained in something else.

#3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? (Q3)

Select all that apply:

They teach us what man is to believe concerning God.

They teach us what duty God requires of man.

They teach us how we can earn merit with God.

#4. What is God? (Q4)

Select all that apply:

God has a body or bodily parts.

God is a spirit without body or bodily parts.

God is infinite in being.

God is without any bounds of place, time, or perfection.

God is finite as all creatures are.

God is eternal in being, without either beginning or end.

God has a beginning as all creatures have.

God will have an end.

God is unchangeable.

God is subject to change as creatures are.

#5. What is God? (Q4) cont.

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God is infinite in wisdom.

God knows all things.

God does all things wisely.

There are some things that God does not know.

God lacks wisdom in some things.

God lacks wisdom at some times.

God is almighty, that is, infinite in power.

God is able to do all things.

There are some things that are too hard for God.

#6. What is God? (Q4) cont.

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God is infinite in holiness

There is some sin in Him.

He allows anyone to sin.

God is infinite in justice.

He is just in all things and at all times.

There is some injustice or unrighteousness in God.

God is infinite in goodness.

God is good in Himself [intrinsically good].

God is the source of all good in creatures.

#7. What is God? (Q4) cont.

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God is infinite in truth.

It is possible for God to lie.

It is possible for God to err or be deceived.

God is eternal and unchangeable in all these perfections.

And, it is impossible for Him to be otherwise.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being.

He is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His wisdom.

He is infinite in His power.

He is infinite in His holiness.

He is infinite in His justice, His goodness, and His truth.

#8. Are there more Gods than one? (Q5)

Select all that apply:

There are more Gods than one.

Those gods that the heathen worshipped were real gods.

The living and true God is the only God.

#9. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6)

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There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

There are more than three persons in the Godhead.

There are fewer than three persons in the Godhead.

The Father is God.

The Son is God.

The Holy Spirit is God.

There are three Gods.

The three persons of the Godhead are one God.

#10. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6) cont.

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The three persons in the Godhead are the same in substance.

The three persons in the Godhead are different in substance.

The three persons in the Godhead are equal in power and glory.

One of the persons in the Godhead is more powerful than another.

One of the persons in the Godhead is more glorious than another.

#11. What are the decrees of God? (Q7)

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They are His eternal purpose, by which He has foreordained whatever events or things happen.

Things happen that God has not decreed.

Things happen differently than God has decreed.

The decrees of God are eternal.

God purposes or decrees things now besides what He has purposed from all eternity.

Changes in creatures motivate a change in God’s purposes.

Changes in creatures cause a change in God’s purposes.

God, from all eternity, by an unchangeable decree, has foreordained those changes in creatures.

#12. What are the decrees of God? (Q7) cont.

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God has foreordained all things for His own glory.

Things happen that do not serve to glorify God.

Things happen that were not intended by Him for that purpose.

God was moved to make decrees by things outside of Himself.

God was moved to make decrees only according to the counsel of His will.

#13. How does God carry out his decrees? (Q8)

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The work of creation is an execution of God’s decrees.

The works of providence are an execution of God’s decrees.

God causes some things to happen in His providence that was not previously decreed.

#14. What is the work of creation? (Q9)

Select all that apply:

God made all things out of nothing in the space of six days.

There are things that God did not directly make, or else make out of other things that He had made.

God made all things by the word of His power without the use of instruments.

God created some things sinful, mistakenly, or wrongly.

God created all things very good.

#15. How did God create man? (Q10)

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God created man both male and female after His own image.

God created man in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness.

Man has dominion over the creatures.

#16. What are God’s works of providence? (Q11)

Select all that apply:

God preserves and governs all of His creatures.

God preserves and governs all their actions.

There are some things that do not stand in need of His preservation.

There are some things that are exempt from His government.

God is most holy, wise, and powerful in all His acts of providence.

There is some lack of holiness in God’s providence.

There is not a complete measure of wisdom in God’s providence.

Power is sometimes lacking in some of His acts of providence.

#17. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state in which he was created? (Q12)

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God entered into a covenant of life with man.

This covenant is upon condition of perfect obedience.

This covenant is absolutely, without any condition.

Man had liberty to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Man was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

If man ate from the tree, it would be upon pain of death.

And that death would be immediate and final.

#18. Did our first parents continue in the state in which they were created? (Q13)

Select all that apply:

Our first parents did continue in the state in which they were created.

Our first parents fell from it by sinning against God.

They were confirmed in innocence.

They were forced to sin.

They were left to the freedom of their own will.

#19. What is sin? (Q14)

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It is any transgression of God’s Law.

It is any lack of conformity to it.

Even in the smallest matters.

Sin is only some gross transgression.

#20. What was the sin by which our first parents fell from the state in which they were created? (Q15)

Select all that apply:

It was their eating the forbidden fruit.

It included other sins also.

#21. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first disobedience? (Q16)

Select all that apply:

Christ fell as well as all mankind.

Those who fell were descend from Adam by ordinary generation.

They all sinned with Adam in his first transgression.

And, fall with him into sin.

The covenant was made with Adam for his posterity as well as for himself.

The covenant was only made for Adam.

#22. Into what state did the fall bring mankind? (Q17)

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Into a state of sin.

Into a state of life.

Into a state of misery.

Into a state of free will.

#23. What is the sinfulness of that state into which man fell? (Q18)

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Man is guilty of Adam’s first sin.

Man lacks original righteousness.

Man still retains that righteousness in which he was created.

There is a corruption of man’s whole nature.

There are parts of man that remain undefiled.

This is what is commonly called original sin.

All actual transgressions proceed from it.

They are part of the sinfulness of man’s condition.

#24. What misery did the fall bring upon mankind? (Q19)

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All men have lost communion with God by their fall.

All men are under His wrath and curse.

All men are made liable to all the miseries of this life.

And, to death itself.

Death puts an end to all man's misery.

All men are liable to the pains of hell forever.

#25. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? (Q21)

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The Lord Jesus Christ the only redeemer of God’s elect.

There are others who can redeem us.

Christ is the eternal Son of God.

Christ became man.

Christ is both God and man.

There two distinct natures in Christ.

And, two distinct persons.

Or, two distinct natures and one person.

Christ continues to be so forever.

#26. How did Christ, the Son of God, become man? (Q22)

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Christ had a body without a soul.

Or, Christ had a soul without a body.

Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to Himself a true body and true human soul.

Christ was conceived and born in an ordinary way as others are.

Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary and born of her.

Christ was conceived and born without sin.

Christ was conceived and born in sin as others are.

#27. What offices does Christ fill as our Redeemer? (Q23)

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He executes the office of a prophet.

He executes the office of a priest.

He executes the office of a king.

Christ executed these offices in his state of humiliation.

Christ executes these offices in his state of exaltation.

#28. How does Christ fill the office of a prophet? (Q24)

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In revealing to us the will of God for our salvation.

There are some things necessary for our salvation that He has not revealed.

He reveals this by His Word and Spirit.

He reveals this only by His Word without the Spirit.

#29. How does Christ fill the office of a priest? (Q25)

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In His offering Himself, just once, as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice.

And, to reconcile us to God.

He was offered up by someone else against His will.

He was offered up a sacrifice more than once.

He is to be offered up again as a final sacrifice.

His offering up Himself as a sacrifice only once is sufficient to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God.

Christ made intercession for us.

Christ continues to make intercession for us.

He finished His intercession along with His sacrifice.

Intercession is part of His priestly office.

#30. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26)

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He subdues us to Himself.

We submit to Him merely out of our own accord.

We are by nature enemies to Him.

Christ rules and governs us.

Christ permits us to do what we want.

Christ allows us to remain rebellious.

Christ defends us.

Christ restrains all of His and our enemies.

Christ conquers all of His and our enemies.

#31. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26) cont.

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He leaves us exposed to dangers and lets us fend for ourselves.

He allows our enemies to do what they wish.

Christ leaves them unconquered and allows them to prevail finally against Him.

Christ leaves them unconquered and allows them to prevail finally against us.

#32. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27)

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Being born was an abasement (lowering) of Christ.

His abasement was especially in a low condition.

He was made under the Law.

He was exempted from subjection to the Law.

He was freed from the misery of this life.

He underwent the misery of this life.

He underwent the wrath of God.

#33. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27) cont.

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He suffered death.

His death was an ordinary natural death.

He underwent the cursed death of the Cross.

He was buried.

He rose again immediately.

He continued under the power of death for a time.

#34. In what does Christ’s exaltation consist? (Q28)

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Christ continues still in the grave and under the power of death.

Christ rose again from the dead on the third day.

He was to continue on the earth after His resurrection.

He ascended up into Heaven.

He sits at the right hand of God the Father.

Christ will remain at the Father's right hand forever.

He will come to judge the world at the last day.

He will come again before the last day.

All these are part of Christ’s exaltation.

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Questions based on John Wallis’ 1648 work A Brief and Easy Explanation of The Shorter Catechism.

Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 1 to 28

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#1. What is the chief purpose for which man is made? (Q1)

#2. What rule has God given to direct us how to glorify and enjoy him? (Q2)

#3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? (Q3)

#4. What is God? (Q4)

#5. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#6. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#7. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#8. Are there more Gods than one? (Q5)

#9. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6)

#10. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6) cont.

#11. What are the decrees of God? (Q7)

#12. What are the decrees of God? (Q7) cont.

#13. How does God carry out his decrees? (Q8)

#14. What is the work of creation? (Q9)

#15. How did God create man? (Q10)

#16. What are God’s works of providence? (Q11)

#17. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state in which he was created? (Q12)

#18. Did our first parents continue in the state in which they were created? (Q13)

#19. What is sin? (Q14)

#20. What was the sin by which our first parents fell from the state in which they were created? (Q15)

#21. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first disobedience? (Q16)

#22. Into what state did the fall bring mankind? (Q17)

#23. What is the sinfulness of that state into which man fell? (Q18)

#24. What misery did the fall bring upon mankind? (Q19)

#25. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? (Q21)

#26. How did Christ, the Son of God, become man? (Q22)

#27. What offices does Christ fill as our Redeemer? (Q23)

#28. How does Christ fill the office of a prophet? (Q24)

#29. How does Christ fill the office of a priest? (Q25)

#30. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26)

#31. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26) cont.

#32. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27)

#33. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27) cont.

#34. In what does Christ’s exaltation consist? (Q28)

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#1. What is the chief purpose for which man is made? (Q1)

#2. What rule has God given to direct us how to glorify and enjoy him? (Q2)

#3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? (Q3)

#4. What is God? (Q4)

#5. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#6. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#7. What is God? (Q4) cont.

#8. Are there more Gods than one? (Q5)

#9. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6)

#10. How many persons are there in the Godhead? (Q6) cont.

#11. What are the decrees of God? (Q7)

#12. What are the decrees of God? (Q7) cont.

#13. How does God carry out his decrees? (Q8)

#14. What is the work of creation? (Q9)

#15. How did God create man? (Q10)

#16. What are God’s works of providence? (Q11)

#17. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state in which he was created? (Q12)

#18. Did our first parents continue in the state in which they were created? (Q13)

#19. What is sin? (Q14)

#20. What was the sin by which our first parents fell from the state in which they were created? (Q15)

#21. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first disobedience? (Q16)

#22. Into what state did the fall bring mankind? (Q17)

#23. What is the sinfulness of that state into which man fell? (Q18)

#24. What misery did the fall bring upon mankind? (Q19)

#25. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? (Q21)

#26. How did Christ, the Son of God, become man? (Q22)

#27. What offices does Christ fill as our Redeemer? (Q23)

#28. How does Christ fill the office of a prophet? (Q24)

#29. How does Christ fill the office of a priest? (Q25)

#30. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26)

#31. How does Christ fill the office of a king? (Q26) cont.

#32. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27)

#33. In what did Christ’s humiliation consist? (Q27) cont.

#34. In what does Christ’s exaltation consist? (Q28)

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