[ { "question": "What is the Trinity?", "answer": "The Trinity is the Christian doctrine that there is one God eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. They share one divine nature while remaining distinct persons—co-equal, co-eternal, and not three gods but one God.", "tags": [ "Trinity", "God", "doctrine", "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" ], "category": "Doctrine", "similar": [ "Who is Jesus Christ?", "What is the Holy Spirit?", "What is salvation?" ] }, { "question": "What is salvation?", "answer": "Salvation is God’s rescue of sinners from sin and its consequences through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is received by grace through faith, apart from human works, as a gift that includes forgiveness, new life, and eternal fellowship with God.", "tags": [ "salvation", "grace", "faith", "Jesus Christ", "forgiveness" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is grace?", "What is faith?", "What is justification?" ] }, { "question": "What is grace?", "answer": "Grace is God’s unmerited favor toward humanity—his loving kindness by which he forgives sin, adopts believers, and empowers holy living. Saving grace is not earned; it flows from God’s character and is displayed supremely in Jesus Christ.", "tags": [ "grace", "salvation", "unmerited favor", "God’s love" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is salvation?", "What is faith?", "What is justification?" ] }, { "question": "What is faith?", "answer": "Faith is trust in God and reliance on his promises, especially trust in Jesus Christ for salvation. Biblical faith involves knowledge, assent to the truth, and personal commitment—not mere intellectual agreement alone.", "tags": [ "faith", "trust", "Jesus Christ", "belief", "salvation" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is salvation?", "What is grace?", "Who is Jesus Christ?" ] }, { "question": "Who is Jesus Christ?", "answer": "Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became man, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for sinners, rose bodily from the dead, and ascended to heaven. He is fully God and fully man, the only mediator between God and humanity.", "tags": [ "Jesus Christ", "Incarnation", "resurrection", "Son of God", "mediator" ], "category": "Christology", "similar": [ "What is the Trinity?", "Why did Jesus die on the cross?", "What is the resurrection of Jesus?" ] }, { "question": "Why did Jesus die on the cross?", "answer": "Jesus died as a substitute and sacrifice for sin, bearing the penalty sinners deserved in order to satisfy God’s justice and display his love. His death removes guilt, defeats death’s power, and opens the way for reconciliation with God.", "tags": [ "cross", "atonement", "sin", "sacrifice", "Jesus Christ" ], "category": "Christology", "similar": [ "Who is Jesus Christ?", "What is the resurrection of Jesus?", "What is sin?" ] }, { "question": "What is the resurrection of Jesus?", "answer": "The resurrection is God’s raising of Jesus from the dead on the third day in a glorified physical body. It confirms Jesus’ divinity, declares victory over sin and death, and is the foundation of Christian hope for our own future resurrection.", "tags": [ "resurrection", "Jesus Christ", "hope", "eternal life" ], "category": "Christology", "similar": [ "Who is Jesus Christ?", "Why did Jesus die on the cross?", "What happens after death?" ] }, { "question": "What is the Bible?", "answer": "The Bible is the collection of Old and New Testament writings inspired by God and authoritative for faith and life. It tells the unified story of creation, fall, redemption, and new creation, centering on Jesus Christ.", "tags": [ "Scripture", "Word of God", "Old Testament", "New Testament", "inspiration" ], "category": "Bibliology", "similar": [ "How should we read the Bible?", "Who is Jesus Christ?", "What is the church?" ] }, { "question": "How should we read the Bible?", "answer": "We should read the Bible prayerfully, in context, with attention to genre, historical setting, and the arc of the whole story. The Spirit illuminates understanding; the church’s careful study and humility help guard against private distortion.", "tags": [ "Bible", "interpretation", "hermeneutics", "prayer", "church" ], "category": "Bibliology", "similar": [ "What is the Bible?", "What is prayer?", "What is the church?" ] }, { "question": "What is sin?", "answer": "Sin is any lack of conformity to God’s will or any transgression of his law. It is rooted in the human heart—in pride, unbelief, and misplaced love—and results in alienation from God and neighbor, repaired only through Christ.", "tags": [ "sin", "fall", "repentance", "law", "human condition" ], "category": "Hamartiology", "similar": [ "What is repentance?", "Why did Jesus die on the cross?", "What is salvation?" ] }, { "question": "What is repentance?", "answer": "Repentance is turning from sin toward God in sorrow for wrongdoing and trust in his mercy. It includes a change of mind, heart, and direction, and is a gift of God that accompanies true faith.", "tags": [ "repentance", "faith", "forgiveness", "conversion" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is sin?", "What is faith?", "What is salvation?" ] }, { "question": "What is the Holy Spirit?", "answer": "The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, fully God. He convicts of sin, regenerates hearts, indwells believers, empowers for holiness and witness, and distributes gifts to build up the church.", "tags": [ "Holy Spirit", "Trinity", "pneumatology", "church" ], "category": "Pneumatology", "similar": [ "What is the Trinity?", "What is sanctification?", "What is the church?" ] }, { "question": "What is prayer?", "answer": "Prayer is speaking with God—in adoration, thanksgiving, confession, and supplication—through Jesus Christ by the help of the Spirit. It expresses dependence, aligns the heart with God’s will, and participates in his ongoing work.", "tags": [ "prayer", "worship", "dependence", "Jesus Christ" ], "category": "Christian Life", "similar": [ "How should we read the Bible?", "Who is Jesus Christ?", "What is the church?" ] }, { "question": "What is the church?", "answer": "The church is the people of God called out by the gospel—united to Christ and one another by the Spirit—who gather to worship, hear the Word, receive the sacraments, and serve the world as Christ’s body.", "tags": [ "church", "body of Christ", "worship", "gospel" ], "category": "Ecclesiology", "similar": [ "What are the sacraments or ordinances?", "What is the Holy Spirit?", "What is the Great Commission?" ] }, { "question": "What are the sacraments or ordinances?", "answer": "Many Christian traditions distinguish outward signs instituted by Christ of inward grace—for example, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They visibly proclaim the gospel and seal God’s promises to believers; exact understanding varies across denominations.", "tags": [ "baptism", "Lord’s Supper", "Communion", "worship", "gospel" ], "category": "Ecclesiology", "similar": [ "What is the church?", "What is the Great Commission?", "Who is Jesus Christ?" ] }, { "question": "What happens after death?", "answer": "Christian hope teaches that believers who die enter the nearer presence of Christ, and await the resurrection of the body. Unbelievers face final judgment. Ultimately God renews heaven and earth where his people dwell with him forever.", "tags": [ "eternal life", "heaven", "resurrection", "judgment", "hope" ], "category": "Eschatology", "similar": [ "What is the resurrection of Jesus?", "What is salvation?", "Why does God allow suffering?" ] }, { "question": "What is justification?", "answer": "Justification is God’s legal declaration that the believing sinner is righteous in Christ—based on Jesus’ finished work, received through faith alone—whereby sins are forgiven and one is reconciled to God.", "tags": [ "justification", "righteousness", "faith", "reconciliation", "grace" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is sanctification?", "What is grace?", "What is faith?" ] }, { "question": "What is sanctification?", "answer": "Sanctification is God’s ongoing work of making believers holy—in separation from sin and likeness to Christ. It involves divine grace and human effort in response, from new birth to final glorification.", "tags": [ "sanctification", "holiness", "Spirit", "Christian life" ], "category": "Soteriology", "similar": [ "What is justification?", "What is the Holy Spirit?", "What is sin?" ] }, { "question": "Why does God allow suffering?", "answer": "Christian faith does not give a full answer to every instance of evil, but holds that God is good, wise, and sovereign. Suffering entered through a fallen world; God enters it in Christ, redeems it for eternal purposes, and will end it in the new creation.", "tags": [ "suffering", "evil", "sovereignty", "hope", "fall" ], "category": "Theodicy", "similar": [ "What is sin?", "Why did Jesus die on the cross?", "What happens after death?" ] }, { "question": "What is the Great Commission?", "answer": "The Great Commission is Jesus’ command to his disciples to make disciples of all nations—baptizing and teaching them to obey everything he commanded—with promise of his presence to the end of the age.", "tags": [ "evangelism", "mission", "discipleship", "Jesus Christ" ], "category": "Mission", "similar": [ "What is the church?", "Who is Jesus Christ?", "What are the sacraments or ordinances?" ] }, { "question": "What does this content explain about worship?", "answer": "Summary: Worship is presented here as Praise the Lord that he is good, that his mercy endures forever.2. Key points: Praise the Lord that he is good, that his mercy endures forever.2; Praise the Lord that he is good, that his mercy endures forever; The moon and the stars to rule the night, because His mercy is eternal.", "tags": [ "worship", "mercy", "forever", "views", "endures" ], "category": "Worship", "similar": [], "source": "Study notes / Psalm 136 (mercy theme)" } ]