1. Who made all things?
Answer: God
2. Where is God?
Answer: In heaven
3. Is He anywhere else?
Answer: Yes: He is everywhere.
4. How can God be everywhere if He is in heaven?
Answer: By His Spirit: His Spirit fills heaven and earth.
5. What is His Spirit?
Answer: His invisible power of which all things are made.
6. What is God Himself?
Answer: He is a being of glorious spirit substance.
7. What is He called?
Answer: The Father
8. Why is He called the Father?
Answer: Because all things are of Him and from Him. He made them all.
9. Is the Father separate from the Spirit?
Answer: No: they are both one, like a fire and its warmth, or the sun and its light.
10. Can the Father see us, although He is in heaven?
Answer: Yes. He can both see us and hear us. His Spirit is everywhere; and all things are in it, so that He knows everything that happens. Nothing can be hid from His eyes.
11. Does He know even our thoughts?
Answer: Yes, He knows the very thoughts of our hearts, even if we say nothing about them.
12. What does this teach us?
Answer: To be very careful of what we do or say or think.
13. Does God desire us to act in a particular way?
Answer: Yes. He desires us to obey Him.
14. Has He told us what to do?
Answer: Yes.
15. Where?
Answer: In the Bible.
16. What is the Bible?
Answer: It is a book written by a number of men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit what to say.
17. What do we learn from the Bible?
Answer: We learn what God has done and said in the past: what He wishes us to do now: and what He intends to do with us in the days that are to come.
18. What has God done in the past?
Answer: He made man upon the earth.
19. How long ago?
Answer: About 6,000 years
20. What was the name of the first man and woman?
Answer: Adam and Eve.
21. Where did God put them when He had made them?
Answer: In a beautiful garden in Eden, where there were many fruit trees.
22. What did He tell them they might do?
Answer: He said they might eat of all the trees but one that stood in the midst of the garden: they were not to touch that.
23. Were they obedient?
Answer: No: they ate of the tree in the midst of the garden.
24. What was the consequence of their disobedience?
Answer: They were sentenced to die, and they were driven out of the beautiful garden, to get their living by labour.
25. Are we under this sentence?
Answer: Yes, because we are their children. We have come from them. It was a sentence that cursed their bodies, and we have the same bodies.
26. What did God say to Adam?
Answer: "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
27. Had God made Adam of the dust?
Answer: Yes: "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul."
28. Is it true what people say that God breathed into Adam an immortal soul that cannot die?
Answer: No; that is not true. Man is mortal because of sin.
29. What is sin?
Answer: Disobedience of the law of God.
30. Does man die?
Answer: Yes; man dies and returns to the dust, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
31. What is the spirit that returns to God?
Answer: It is the life-power of God, without which we could not be living beings. It is not we, but the power by which we are.
32. When God takes life away, can we live any longer or think any more?
Answer: No; we become dead, and unable to know or think anything, until we are made over again at the resurrection.
33. Is it true that when we die, we go to heaven or hell?
Answer: No; that is one of the many fables taught to the people in this day of darkness. It is the resurrection we have to look to.
34. What is the resurrection?
Answer: The raising to life again of people that have died.
35. Is there going to be a resurrection?
Answer: Yes: God has promised to bring again His people from the grave.
36. Who are His people?
Answer: Those who know and love Him; who believe His promises and obey His commandments.
37. Will none but His people rise from the dead?
Answer: The unjust will rise as well as the just.
38. Will all people rise that have ever died?
Answer: No: those only will rise from the dead who are responsible.
39. Who are those that are responsible?
Answer: Those who know the will of God, whether they do it or not.
40. What will become of those who are not responsible?