Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 11 to 20

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

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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.

#2. 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.

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

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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.

#4. 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.

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

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It was their eating the forbidden fruit.

It included other sins also.

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

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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.

#7. 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.

#8. 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.

#9. 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.

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

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God left all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery.

God delivers all mankind out of the state of sin and misery.

God has elected some to everlasting life.

God's election is from all eternity.

God's election is out of His mere good pleasure.

God's election is because of something God foresaw in the elect that moved Him to that election.

God delivers the elect out of the state of sin and misery and brings them into a state of salvation.

The elect are thus delivered and saved by the first covenant, which was a covenant of works, upon their perfect obedience.

God enter into a covenant of grace to deliver and save the elect by a Redeemer.

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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 11 to 20

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

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

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

#4. What is sin? (Q14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#4. What is sin? (Q14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Christ The Mediator

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