CATECHISM

Man  

1. Who made you? 

God made me. 

 
2. Why did God make you? 

God made me to know Him, love Him and serve Him in this world, and be happy with Him 

forever in the next 

3. To whose image and likeness did God make you? 

God made me to his own image and likeness. 

 
4. Is this likeness to God in your body, or in your soul? 

This likeness to God is chiefly in my soul. 

 
5. How is your soul like to God? 

My soul is like to God because it is a spirit, and is immortal. 

6. What do you mean when you say that your soul is immortal? 

When I say my soul is immortal, I mean that my soul can never die. 

 
7. Of which must you take most care, of your body or of your soul? I 

I must take most care of my soul; for Christ has said, ‘What doth it profit a man if he gain the 

whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?’ Matt. 16:26 

 
8. What must you do to save your soul? 

To save my soul I must worship God by Faith, Hope and Charity; that is, I must believe in him, 

I must hope in him, and I must love him with my whole heart. 

 
Worship. To adore, as in the case of Almighty God; to honour or respect, as in the case of 

the Angels, or of the Saints. 

Faith. To believe: to have trust or confidence in what a person says. There are two kinds 

of faith: 

1. divine faith, which is relying on the word of God; 

2. human faith, which is relying on the testimony of man.