Twenty Important Questions:

And Their Biblical Answers

1. HOW DID GOD GIVE US THE BIBLE?

• "For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:21) 

• "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." (2 Timothy 3:16 KJV)

2. WHAT IS SIN?

• "All unrighteousness is sin. (1 John 5:17) 

• "Sin is the transgression of the law." (1 John 3:4 KJV)

3. WHY DO WE NEED JESUS CHRIST?

• "For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

• "For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:3)

4. WHAT HAS CHRIST DONE FOR US?

• "But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him." (Romans 5:8,9)

• "In whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace." (Ephesians 1:7)

• "Apart from shedding of blood there is no remission." (Hebrews 9:22)

5. WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

• "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31)

• "And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)

• "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned." (Mark 16:16)

6. WHAT MUST WE BELIEVE?

• "Because if thou shalt confess with they mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9)

7. WHY MUST WE BE BAPTIZED?

• "Repent ye, and be baptized . . . unto the remission of your sins." (Acts 2:38)

• "Arise, and be baptized and wash away thy sins." (Acts 22:16)

• "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ." (Galatians 3:27)

• "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us." (1 Peter 3:21 KJV)

8. HOW SHOULD ONE BE BAPTIZED?

• "We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death" (Romans 6:4)

• "Having been buried with him in baptism." (Colossians 2:12)

• "And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip." (Acts 8:38, 39)

9. ARE WE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF MOSES TODAY?

• "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law through the body of Christ . . . But now we have been discharged from the law." (Romans 7:4, 6)

• "He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second." (Hebrews 10:9)

• "Having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross." (Colossians 2:14)

10. THROUGH WHOM DOES GOD NOW SPEAK?

• "God,  having of old times spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son." (Hebrews 1:1, 2)

• "And behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him." (Matthew 17:5)

• "And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given me in  heaven and on earth." (Matthew 28:18)

11. HOW MANY CHURCHES ARE THERE?

• "There is one body."  (Ephesians 4:4)

12. WHO ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH?

• "And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." (Matthew 16:18; Jesus speaking)

• "Take heed . . . to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood." (Acts 20:28)

13. WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?

• "And he is the head of the body, the church." (Colossians 1:18)

• "All the churches of Christ salute you." (Romans 16:16)

• "For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God." (1 Corinthians 15:9)

14. WHAT ARE CHRIST'S DISCIPLES CALLED?

• "The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." (Acts 11:26)

• "But if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed." (1 Peter 4:16)

• "Paul . . . to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are at Colossae." (Colossians 1:1, 2)

15. WHEN SHOULD CHRISTIANS ASSEMBLE TO WORSHIP?

• "And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them." (Acts 20:7)

• "Not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is." (Hebrews 10:25)

16. HOW MUST CHRISTIANS WORSHIP?

• "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24)

• "And they continued stedfastly in the apostle's teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers." (Acts 2:42)

• "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God." (Colossians 3:16)

17. HOW MUST A CHRISTIAN LIVE TO PLEASE GOD?

• "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Romans 12:1, 2)

• "Keep thyself pure." (1 Timothy 5:22)

18. WHAT ARE A CHRISTIAN'S RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARD OTHERS?

• "So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith." (Galatians 6:10)

• "All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets." (Matthew 7:12)

19. HOW WILL CHRIST RETURN?

• "Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him." (Revelation 1:7)

• "For the Lord himself shall ascend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians 4:16; 17)

20. WILL THERE BE REWARD AND PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH?

• "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for  you from the foundation of the world . . .Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels . . . And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life." (Matthew 25:34, 41, 46)

Note: All quotations are from the American Standard Version except as noted.