A. Yes; God is the Father of all things by Creation, and of all Christians by Bap tism. Q. Why is God called Almighty? Q. Why is God called the Maker of Heaven and Earth? A. Because God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing. Who were the first man and woman? A. Adam and Eve. Q. How was Adam made? A. God made Adam's body out of dust, and breathed into it a soul. Q. How long ago did God create Adam? A. More than 6,000 years ago; we do not know when. Q. Where did God first put Adam and Eve? A. In the Garden of Eden. PART 4.-APOSTLES' CREED, 2D ARTICLE. Q. What is the Second Article of the Creed? A. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. Q. Who is Jesus Christ? A. Jesus Christ is God's Eternal Son, made Man for us. Q. Is Jesus Christ truly God? A. Yes; Jesus Christ is truly God. Q. Which Person of the Blessed Trinity is Jesus Christ? A. Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Q. How is Jesus Christ God's only Son? Q. Is Jesus Christ truly Man? A. Yes; for Jesus has truly the nature of man, a body and soul like without sin. Q. Was God the Son always Man? ours, yet Q. How many natures, then, are there in Jesus Christ? A. Two: the nature of God, and the nature of man. Q. Is there more than one Person in Jesus Christ? A. There is but one Person in Christ: the Person of God the Son. Q. What does the Holy Name "Jesus" mean? A. Jesus means Saviour. Q. Why does God the Son bear this Name? A. Because He saves His people from their sins. Q. How is Jesus able to save us from sin? A. Yes; it is the third great Mystery of the Q. What does "Redemption" mean? Q. Why is this Mystery so called? A. Because Christ bought us back from the power of sin with the price of His Precious Blood.* Q. When was this Name Jesus given to Christ? A. At His Circumcision, by God's command. Q. What does the name "Christ" mean. Q. Who, in Jewish times, were anointed? Q. Why were they anointed? A. To set them apart for their office. A. To teach God's truth to men, and to foretell things to come. Q. What was the Priest's office? A. To offer up prayers and sacrifices to God in behalf of others. Q. What was the King's office? A. To protect his subjects, to give them laws, and to punish those who broke the laws. Q. Why, then, is our Saviour called the Anointed, or Messiah? *Col. i. 13: Heb. ii. 14, 15; Rom. vi. 16. And see Note A, below p. 105. A. Because he is our Prophet, Priest, and King. Q. Was Jesus anointed with oil? A. No; the Holy Ghost, of Whom oil is a type, came down on Him at His Baptism. Q. How is Christ our Prophet? A. He made known God's Truth and God's Will. Q. How is Christ our Priest? A. He offered up Himself to God once for all a sacrifice for our sins. Q. Did Christ's Priesthood, then, end with His death? A. No; He Himself in Heaven, and the Christian Priest in His stead on earth, offer to the Father continually the Memorial of that one Sacrifice. (Heb. vii.) Q. How is Christ our King? A. 1. He protects faithful Christians from sin, from the Devil, and from Everlasting Death. 2. He has given us the New Law of Love. 3. He punishes those who break His law. Q. Why is Jesus Christ our Lord? d PART 5.-APOSTLES' CREED, 3D ARTICLE. Q. What is the Third Article of the Creed? A. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary. Q. In the Nicene Creed what word is used instead of the word "Conceived"? A. Incarnate, i.e., made flesh. Q. Where do you learn this fact of the Holy A. It was foretold in the Old Testament (Is. Q. Had Jesus any man for his Father? Q. Was Jesus Christ born in sin? A. No; Jesus was made like unto us in all things, sin only excepted. Q. Had Jesus, then, two natures? A. Yes; Jesus had two natures, and two wills, Human and Divine, united in One Person. Q. What Person was that? A. The Second Person of the Blessed Tri- Q. Who was the Mother of Jesus Christ? Q. What title does the Church give her? * Cf. Pearson on the Creed, pp. 318-320, Clarendon Press Edit., 1870, together with the note 37. |