Kids Quest
The Westminster Shorter Confession Catechism used with the KidsQuest program
150 verses
OddlyAdding
April 3, 2022
en_US
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Q001. Who made you?ESV
A. God
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Q002. What else did God make?None
A. God made all things.
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Q003. Why did God make you and all things?None
A. For his own glory.
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Q004. How can you glorify God?None
A. By loving him and doing what he commands.
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Q005. Why are you to glorify God?None
Because he made me and takes care of me.
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Q006. Is there more than one true God?None
A. No. There is only one true God.
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Q007. In how many Persons does this one God exist?None
A. In three Persons.
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Q008. Name these three Persons.None
A. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Q009. What is God?None
A. God is a Spirit and does not have a body like men.
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Q010. Where is God?None
A. God is everywhere.
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Q011. Can you see God?ESV
A. No. I cannot see God, but he always sees me.
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Q012. Does God know all things?None
A. Yes. Nothing can be hidden from God.
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Q013. Can God do all things?None
A. Yes. God can do all his holy will.
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Q014. Where do you learn how to love and obey God?ESV
A. In the Bible alone.
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Q015. Who wrote the Bible?None
A. Chosen men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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Q016. Who were our first parents?None
A. Adam and Eve.
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Q017. How did God create man?None
A. God created man, male and female, after his own image.
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Q018. Of what were our first parents made?None
A. God made Adam's body out of the ground and Eve's body out of a rib from Adam.
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Q019. What else did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?None
A. He gave them souls that will last forever.
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Q020. Do you have a soul as well as a body?None
A. Yes. And my soul is going to last forever.
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Q021. How do you know your soul will last forever?None
A. Because the Bible tells me so.
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Q022. In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?None
A. He made them holy and happy.
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Q023. What covenant did God make with Adam?None
The covenant of life.
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Q024. What is a covenant?None
A relationship that God establishes with us and guarantees by his word.
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Q025. In the covenant of life, what did God require Adam to do?None
A. To obey God perfectly.
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Q026. What did God promise in the covenant of life?None
A. To reward Adam with life if he obeyed God perfectly.
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Q027. What did God threaten in the covenant of life?None
A. To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed God.
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Q028. Did Adam keep the covenant of life?None
No. He sinned against God.
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Q029. What is sin?None
A. Sin is any lack of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God.
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Q030. What is meant by lack of conformity?None
A. Not being or doing what God requires.
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Q031. What is meant by transgression?None
A. Doing what God forbids.
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Q032. What does every sin deserve?None
A. The wrath and curse of God.
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Q033. What was the sin of our first parents?None
A. Eating the forbidden fruit.
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Q034. Who tempted Adam and Eve to this sin?None
A. Satan tempted Eve first, and then he used her to tempt Adam.
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Q035. How did Adam and Eve change when they sinned?None
A. Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable.
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Q036. Did Adam act for himself alone in the covenant of life?None
A. No. He represented the whole human race.
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Q037. What effect did the sin of Adam have on you and all people?None
A. We are all born guilty and sinful.
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Q038. How sinful are you by nature?None
A. I am corrupt in every part of my being.
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Q039. What is the sinful nature that we inherit from Adam called?None
A. Original sin.
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Q040. Can anyone go to heaven with this sinful nature?None
No. Our hearts must be changed before we can believe in Jesus and go to heaven.
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Q041. What is this change of heart called?None
A. The new birth, or regeneration.
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Q042. Who can change a sinner's heart?NIV
The Holy Spirit alone.
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Q043. Can anyone be saved through the covenant of life?None
No. No one can be saved through the covenant of life.
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Q044. Why can't anyone be saved through the covenant of life?None
Because all have broken it and are condemned by it.
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Q045. How did you break the covenant of life?None
Adam represented all people, and so I fell with Adam in his first sin.
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Q046. How, then, can you be saved?None
By the Lord Jesus Christ through the covenant of Grace.
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Q047. Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?None
His elect people.
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Q048. How did Christ fulfill the covenant of grace?None
Christ obeyed the whole law for his people, and then suffered the punishment due for their sins.
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Q049. Did Jesus ever sin?None
No. He lived a sinless life.
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Q050. How could Christ suffer?ESV
Christ, the Son of God, became a man so that he could obey and suffer in our place.
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Q051. For whom did Christ obey and suffer?None
For all whom God the Father gave to Christ.
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Q052. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?None
A life of obedience, service and suffering.
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Q053. What kind of death did Jesus die?None
The painful and shameful death of the cross.
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Q054. What is meant by the atonement?None
Christ satisfied God's justice by his suffering and death as a substitute for sinners.
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Q055. What does God the Father guarantee in the covenant of grace?None
To justify and sanctify all those for whom Christ died.
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Q056. How does God justify you?None
God forgives all my sins and accepts me as righteous through Christ.
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Q057. How does God sanctify you?None
God makes me more and more holy in heart and conduct.
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Q058. What must you do to be saved?None
I must repent of my sin and believe in Christ as my savior.
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Q059. How do you repent of your sin?None
I must be sorry for my sin, and hate and forsake it.
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Q060. Why must you hate and forsake your sin?ESV
Because sin displeases God.
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Q061. What does it mean to believe in Christ?None
To trust in Christ alone for my salvation.
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Q062. Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own power?None
No. I cannot repent and believe unless the Holy Spirit changes my heart.
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Q063. How can you get the help of the Holy Spirit?None
God has told us to pray for the Holy Spirit's help.
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Q064. How long ago did Christ die?None
About two thousand years ago.
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Q065. How were sinners saved before Christ came?None
By believing in the promised Messiah.
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Q066. Before Christ came, how did believers show their faith?None
By offering the sacrifices God required.
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Q067. What did these sacrifices represent?None
Christ, the Lamb of God, who would come to die for sinners.
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Q068. How many offices does Christ fulfill as the promised Messiah?None
Christ fulfills three offices.
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Q069. What are they?None
The offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king.
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Q070. How is Christ your prophet?None
Christ teaches me the will of God.
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Q071. How is Christ your priest?None
Christ died for my sins, and continues to pray for me.
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Q072. How is Christ your king?None
Christ rules over me, the world and Satan, and he defends me.
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Q073. Why do you need Christ as your prophet?None
Because I am ignorant by nature.
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Q074. Why do you need Christ as your priest?None
Because I am guilty of breaking God's law.
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Q075. Why do you need Christ as your king?None
Because I am weak and helpless.
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Q076. How many commandments did God give on Mount Sinai?ESV
Ten commandments.
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Q077. Why should we obey the Ten Commandments?None
Because God is our creator, Savior and King.
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Q078. What do the first four commandments teach?None
What it means to love and serve God.
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Q079. What do the the last six commandments teach?None
What it means to love and serve my neighbor.
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Q080. What do the Ten Commandments teach?None
To love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself.
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Q081. Who is my neighbor?None
Everybody is my neighbor.
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Q082. Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?None
Yes. God says, "I love them that love me."
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Q083. Is God displeased with those who do not love and obey him?None
Yes. "God is angry with the wicked every day."
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Q084. What is the first commandment?None
The first commandment is "You shall have no other gods before Me."
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Q085. What does the first commandment teach you?None
To worship the true God, and him only.
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Q086. What is the second commandment?None
The second commandment is "You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. -
Q087. What does the second commandment teach you?None
To worship God only as he commands, and not to worship God by using statues or pictures.
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Q088. What is the third commandment?None
The third commandment is "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."
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Q089. What does the third commandment teach you?None
To treat God's name, word and works with reverence.
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Q090. What is the fourth commandment?None
The fourth commandment is "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." (NKJV) -
Q091. What does the fourth commandment teach you?NIV
To work six days and keep the Sabbath day holy.
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Q092. What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?None
The first day of the week, called the Lord's Day.
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Q093. Why is it called the Lord's Day?None
Because on that day the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
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Q094. How should you keep the Lord's Day?None
I should rest from my daily work and faithfully worship God.
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Q095. What is the fifth commandment?None
The fifth commandment is "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you."
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Q096. What does the fifth commandment teach you?None
To love and obey my parents and all others that God appoints over me.
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Q097. What is the sixth commandment?None
The sixth commandment is "You shall not murder."
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Q098. What does the sixth commandment teach you?None
Not to take anyone's life unjustly and not to sin when I am angry.
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Q099. What is the seventh commandment?None
The seventh commandment is "You shalt not commit adultery."
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Q100. What does the seventh commandment teach you?NIV
To be pure in heart, language and conduct, and to be faithful in marriage.
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Q101. What is the eighth commandment?ESV
The eighth commandment is "You shall not steal".
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Q102. What does the eighth commandment teach you?
Not to take anything that belongs to someone else.
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Q103. What is the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment is, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor".
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Q104. What does the ninth commandment teach you?
Never to lie, but to tell the truth at all times.
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Q105. What is the tenth commandment?
The tenth commandment is "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
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Q106. What does the tenth commandment teach you?None
Anxiety
To be content with whatever God chooses to give me.
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Q107. Can you keep the Ten Commandments perfectly?
No. Since the fall of Adam, the only one who has been able to do this is Jesus.
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Q108. Of what use are the Ten Commandments to you?
They teach me what is pleasing to God, and how much I need a Savior.
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Q109. What is prayer?
Prayer is praising God, giving thanks for all his blessings, and asking him for the things he has promised in the Bible.
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Q110. In whose name should we pray?
Only in the name of Christ.
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Q111. What did Christ give us to teach us about prayer?
The Lord's Prayer.
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Q112. What is The Lord's prayer?
The Lord's prayer is
"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." -
Q113. How many petitions are there in the Lord's prayer?
Six.
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Q114.What is the first petition?
The first petition is "Hallowed be thy name."
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Q115. What does it mean to pray, "Hallowed be thy name"?
We are asking God to help us and others to respect and honor him.
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Q116. What is the second petition?
The second petition is, "Thy kingdom come."
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Q117. What does it mean to pray, "Thy kingdom come"?
We are asking God to bring more and more people to hear, believe and obey his gospel.
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Q118. What is the third petition?
The third petition is, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
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Q119. What does it mean to pray, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven"?
We are asking God to make us able and willing to serve him on Earth just as he is served in heaven.
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Q120. What is the fourth petition?
The fourth petition is, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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