Catechism for Young Children

Memory cards for questions 41 to 50

Catechism for Young Children · Q41

Can any one be saved through the covenant of works?

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Answer 41

None can be saved through the covenant of works.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q42

Why can none be saved through the covenant of works?

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Answer 42

Because all have broken it, and are condemned by it.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q43

With whom did God the Father make the covenant of grace?

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Answer 43

With Christ, his eternal Son.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q44

Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?

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Answer 44

His elect people.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q45

What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace?

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Answer 45

To keep the whole law for his people, and to suffer the punishment due to their sins.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q46

Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever commit the least sin?

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Answer 46

No; he was holy, harmless and undefiled.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q47

How could the Son of God suffer?

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Answer 47

Christ, the Son of God, became man that he might obey and suffer in our nature.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q48

What is meant by the Atonement?

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Answer 48

Christ’s satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q49

What did God the Father undertake in the covenant of grace?

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Answer 49

To justify and sanctify those for whom Christ should die.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q50

What is justification?

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Answer 50

It is God’s forgiving sinners, and treating them as if they had never sinned.

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