"Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
Acts 4:12
2. Was the gospel preached as far back as Abraham's time?
"And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham."(Galatians 3:8)
3. Did Moses believe in Christ?
"Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward."
Hebrews 11:26
4. Can any one be saved without faith?
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 5:1
Hebrews 10:38; 11:6
5. But will faith alone save any one?
"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"
James 2:20
6. What brought death to the human family?
"Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
Romans 5:12
7. What gave sin the power to enforce death?
"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law."
1 Corinthians 15:56
8. Then does not the existence of sin and death presuppose the presence of the law?
"For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses."(Romans 5:13, 14)
9. How was the decree of death enforced upon Adam?
"And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever."(Genesis 3:22)
"So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
Genesis 3:24
10. How may Adam's posterity regain what he lost?
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Romans 6:23
John 3:16
11. Who will obtain everlasting life?
"He that hath the Son bath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
1 John 5:12
12. Was it determined from the beginning that Christ should die?
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Revelation 13:8
Then Abel (Hebrews 11:4), Moses (Hebrews 11:23-25), Abraham (Galatians 3:8), and all the patriarchs, must have had faith in a Saviour who would come to die for the sins of the world.
13. In the old dispensation what did those do who had sinned, and wished forgiveness?
"Or if his sin which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned."
Leviticus 4:28
14. Could these offerings remove sin?
"For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins."
Hebrews 10:4
15. What did the law of offerings have, if not the power to cleanse from sin?
"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect."
Hebrews 10:1
16. What were the "good things" shadowed forth by these ceremonies?
"But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands."(Hebrews 9:11)
17. When Christ died, what became of the law that regulated those ceremonies?
"Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances."(Ephesians 2:15)
18. What ceremonies do we now observe to show our faith in the sufferings and death of Christ?
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come."
