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Q45: What benefit do we receive from the “resurrection” of Christ? A: First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which He has obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we are also now raised up to a new life. Third, the resurrection […]
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Q43: What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross? A: That by His power our old man is with Him crucified, slain, and buried; so that the evil lusts of the flesh may no more reign in us, but that we may offer ourselves unto Him a […]
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Q40: Why was it necessary for Christ to suffer “death”? A: Because the justice and truth of God required that satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God. Q41: Why was He “buried”? A: To show thereby that He was really dead. Q42: […]
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Q38: Why did He suffer “under Pontius Pilate” as judge? A: That He, being innocent, might be condemned by the temporal judge, and thereby deliver us from the severe judgment of God, to which we were exposed. Q39: Is there anything more in His having been “crucified” than if He had suffered some other death? […]
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Q37: What do you understand by the word “suffered”? A: That all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end of His life, He bore, in body and soul, the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race; in order that by His suffering, as the only atoning sacrifice, […]
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Q35: What is the meaning of “conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary?” A: That the eternal Son of God, who is and continues true and eternal God, took upon Himself the very nature of man, of the flesh and blood of the virgin Mary, by the operation of the Holy Spirit; […]
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