Catechesis

Baptist Catechism -29--Q. How doth -does- Christ execute the office of a king--A. Christ executeth -executes- the office of a king, in subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.

Baptist Catechism -28--Q. How doth -does- Christ execute the office of a priest--A. Christ executeth -executes- the office of a priest, in His once offering up of Himself, a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.

Baptist Catechism -27--Q. How doth -does- Christ execute the office of a prophet--A. Christ executeth -executes- the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by this Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

Baptist Catechism -26--Q. What offices doth -does- Christ execute as our Redeemer--A. Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth -executes- the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His state of humiliation and exaltation.

Baptist Catechism -25--Q. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man--A. Christ, the Son of God became man by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul- being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary and born of her, yet without sin.

Baptist Catechism -24--Q. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect--A. The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was and continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one person, forever.

Baptist Catechism -23--Q. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery--A. God having out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation, by a Redeemer.

Baptist Catechism -22--Q. What is the misery of that estate whereunto man fell--A. All mankind, by their fall lost communion with God, are under His wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

Baptist Catechism -20-21--Q. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind--A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.-Q. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereunto man fell--A. The sinfulness of that estate whereunto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

Baptist Catechism -18-19--Q. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created--A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.-Q. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression--A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.