Salvation

Question 1

What is sin?

Answer 1

Missing the mark and falling short of God’s standard of perfection (Rom. 5:12)

Question 2

Romans 3:23-26

Answer 2

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith…
…26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Question 3

What is the Gospel?

Answer 3

Gospel means good news. The good news is that Jesus paid the sin debt that we owed to holy God by laying down His life for us on the cross. So that we could be reconciled back to God and have eternal life with Him. (Rom. 6:23 & 1 Cor. 15:3-4)

Question 4

Romans 6:23

Answer 4

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Question 5

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Answer 5

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Question 6

How is someone born again?

Answer 6

Saved by grace through faith in Jesus (not our own works, but God’s)
Ephesians 2:8-9

Question 7

Ephesians 2:8-9

Answer 7

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

Question 8

Romans 10:9

Answer 8

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Question 9

How can a person know that they are saved?

Answer 9

The Spirit lives inside of them and they produce fruit

Question 10

John 15:8

Answer 10

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Question 11

Can a person lose their salvation?

Answer 11

No, if they truly were saved
John 10:28

Question 12

John 10:28

Answer 12

I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Question 13

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

Answer 13

John 3:18

Question 14

John 3:18

Answer 14

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Question 15

Romans 5:12

Answer 15

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

Question 16

2 Corinthians 5:17

Answer 16

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Question 17

1 Peter 1:3

Answer 17

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead