Scripture Answers

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

Scripture Answers.

The Young Reaper prints the following short catechism, which is valuable enough to be committed to memory by the children, and even by adults:—

What have all men done? "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

What is sin? "Sin is the transgression of the law."

Then are you, too, a sinner? "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."

What is the punishment for sin? "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

Is that a light thing? "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

Who fixed the punishment? "The great God, who formed all things."

Is there any possibility of your being overlooked? "We shall ALL stand before the judgment-seat of Christ."

Who alone can make a way to escape? "I, even I, am the Lord; and besides me there is no Saviour."

Is there no other way? "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under Heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved."

What have we to do in order to be saved? "Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out."

What else? "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."

What then becomes of our sins? "The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth from all sin."

Of what does this salvation consist? "Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."

Will Jesus save all who come to him? "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."

Will he take even the worst sinner? "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which is lost."

When is the right time to come to be saved? "Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation."

Suppose we neglect to attend to it? "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"

What does Jesus say of some of us? "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life."