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The Westminster Shorter Catechism in Modern English

Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 1 to 52

 

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

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

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

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#4. What is God? (Q4)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#19. What is sin? (Q14)

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

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

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

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

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

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#25. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery? (Q20)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Death on the cross is not considered a ‘natural death’ in so far as he didn’t die of ‘natural’ causes.

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

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Though Christ remained on the earth for 40 days after His resurrection (Acts 1:3), he did not ‘continue’ on earth. Rather, he was temporarily on the earth until his ascension.

#36. How are we made to share in the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q29)

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#37. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q30)

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#38. What is effective calling? (Q31)

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#39. What benefits in this life are shared by those who are effectively called? (Q32)

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#40. What is justification? (Q33)

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#41. What is adoption? (Q34)

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#42. What is sanctification? (Q35)

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#43. What benefits in this life accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? (Q36)

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#44. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? (Q37)

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#45. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? (Q38)

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#46. What is the duty which God requires of man? (Q39)

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#47. What rule did God at first reveal to man for his obedience? (Q40)

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#48. Where is the moral law set out briefly? (Q41)

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#49. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? (Q42)

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#50. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? (Q43)

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#51. What does the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us? (Q44)

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#52. Which is the first commandment? (Q45)

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#53. What is required in the first commandment? (Q46)

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#54. What is forbidden in the first commandment? (Q47)

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#55. What do the words “before me” in the first commandment teach us? (Q48)

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#56. Which is the second commandment? (Q49)

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#57. What are the duties required in the second commandment? (Q50)

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#58. What is forbidden in the second commandment? (Q51)

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#59. What are the reasons attached to the second commandment? (Q52)

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

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(A) INTRODUCTORY

Provision of Redemption

  • Questions 1 to 3: Life's Purpose and Holy Scripture

    • (B) WHAT WE ARE TO BELIEVE ABOUT GOD

  • Questions 4 to 6: The One and Triune God
  • Questions 7 to 8: God's Eternal Plan
  • Questions 9 to 10: Creation
  • Questions 11 to 12: Providence
  • Questions 13 to 19: Sin in the Human Race
  • Question 20: God's covenant of Grace

    • Christ The Mediator

  • Questions 21 to 22: The Person and natures of the Mediator
  • Questions 23 to 26: The three offices of Christ
  • Question 27: Christ's state of humiliation
  • Question 28: Christ's state of exaltation

    • Application of Redemption

  • Questions 29 to 31: God's Effective Call
  • Question 32: Benefits in this life
  • Question 33: Justification
  • Question 34: Adoption
  • Question 35: Sanctification

    • Further Benefits

  • Question 36: In this life
  • Question 37: At death
  • Question 38: At the resurrection

    • (C) THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN / duty of the redeemed

  • Questions 39 to 40: The Moral Law
  • Questions 41 to 42: Brief Summary
  • Questions 43 to 81: Exposition of the ten commandments
  • Questions 82 to 84: Transgression and Penalty
  • Question 85: God’s command in the gospel
  • Question 86: Faith
  • Question 87: Repentance Leading to Life
  • Question 88: The Means of Grace
  • Questions 89 to 90: The Word of God
  • Questions 91 to 93: The Sacraments
  • Questions 94 to 95: Baptism
  • Questions 96 to 97: The Lord’s Supper
  • Questions 98 to 99: Prayer
  • Questions 100 to 107: Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer