Child Catechism About: God

 GOD.
1. Question: What are the first words in the Bible?

• Answer: ''In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'' Gen. I:1.
  

2. Question: Who made you?

• Answer: God made me. ''I have made the earth and created man upon it.'' Isaiah 45:12. and ''The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.'' Job 33:4.
  

3. Question: Who is God?

• Answer: God is the Creator of all things. ''In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'' Gen. 1:1.
  

4. Question: Where is God?

• Answer: God is everywhere. ''Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I  fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.'' - Jer. 23:24.
  

5. Question: What does God know?

• Answer: God knows all things. ''Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.'' Ps. 139: 2. and ''I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. - Ezek. 11:5. and ''The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Beholding the evil and the good.'' Ps. 15:3.
  

6. Question: What can God do?

• Answer: ''God is Almighty. His power is only limited in action by His wisdom and will.'' - Gen. 1:3; 17:1.
  

7. Question: Had God a beginning?

• Answer: God had no beginning. ''Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.'' Ps. 90: 2.
  

8. Question: Is God holy?

• Answer: God is holy. He loves that which is good, and hates that which is evil. ''The Lord our God is holy.'' Ps. 99: 9. and ''Be ye holy; for I am holy.'' 1 Peter 1:16.
  

9. Question: Is God just?

• Answer: God is just, ''a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he.'' - Deut. 32:4
  

10. Question: Is God merciful?

• Answer: ''The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercies.'' James 5:11.
  

11. Question: Is God righteous?

• Answer: ''The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.'' Ps. 145: 17.
  

12. Question: Is God wise?

• Answer: God is all-wise. He makes no mistakes.''O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.'' Rom. II: 33.
  

13. Question: Is God faithful?

• Answer: God is faithful. ''God is faithful, by whom ye are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.'' 1 Cor. I:9.
  

14. Question: Is God good?

• Answer: God is a good and loving Being, and the source of all good. James 1:17; Exod. 34:6; Ps. 145:9.

15. Question: Does God love us?

• Answer: ''God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'' John 3:16.

16. Question: How ought we to feel towards God?

• Answer: "We ought to love God, because He is worthy, and because He has first loved us. - 1 John 4: 10, 16, 19.

17. Question: By what name has Jesus taught us to call God?

• Answer: Jesus has taught us to call God our Father. After this manner therefore pray ye: ''Our Father which art in heaven.'' Matt. 6 : 9.
  

18. Question: In how many persons has God revealed himself to us in the Bible?

• Answer: The one living and true God has revealed Himself to us in three persons, called Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.'' Matt. 28: 19.
  

19. Question: Tell how we can know God?

• Answer: We can know God by faith and obedience and through experience. "He that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.'' Heb. 11:6. and "And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.'' John 17:3. and ''And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.'' 1 John 2:3. and ''Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth him.'' 1 John 4: 17.
  

Child Catechism About: The Bible

 THE HOLY BIBLE.

1. Question: What Is the Holy Bible?

• Answer: The Holy Bible is the Word of God. "When ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." I Thess. 2:13.
  

2. Question: Who wrote the Bible?

• Answer: Holy men inspired of God wrote the Bible. "For the prophesy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1: 21.
  

3. Question: How many books does the Bible contain?

• Answer: The Bible is composed of sixty-six books, divided into two great parts, called the Old Testament and the New Testament.
  

4. Question: Tell how these two Testaments are related to each other.

• Answer: The same plan of salvation is contained in both Testaments; but the old is the preparation for the New, and the New is the fulfillment of the Old.   

5. Question: What does the Bible reveal to us?

• Answer: The Bible reveals God and his will to us.
  

6. Question: What is the Bible able to do for us?

• Answer: The Bible is able to make us wise unto salvation. ''And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.'' 2 Tim. 3 ; 1.5.