WSC Q/A 1-38 UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. Man's chief end is to glorify
God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? - CORRECT
ANSWER- A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The Scriptures
principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
Q. 4. What is God? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and
unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. There is but one only, the
living and true God.
Q. 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. There are
three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are
one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
Q. 7. What are the decrees of God? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The decrees of God are, his
eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath
foreordained whatsoever comesto pass.
Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. God executeth his
decrees in the works of creation and providence.
Q. 9. What is the work of creation? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The work of creation is,
God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all
very good.
, Q. 10. How did God create man? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. God created man male and
female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over
the creatures.
Q. 11. What are God's works of providence? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. God's works of
providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures,
and all their actions.
Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he
was created? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. When God had created man, he entered into a
covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.
Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? - CORRECT
ANSWER- A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the
estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Q. 14. What is sin? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or
transgression of, the law of God.
Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were
created? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate
wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The
covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind,
descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first
transgression.
Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. The fall
brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? - CORRECT
ANSWER- A. The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's
first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is
commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
