Test 2

Question 1

The work of God’s Spirit that gives new life to the one who believes.

Answer 1

Regeneration

Question 2

Implications of Regeneration

Answer 2

1. It is God’s work
2. It gives the capacity to live for God
3. It must be nourished

Question 3

“The act of God that places the believer in His family as an adult” (Ryrie, 352)

Answer 3

Adoption

Question 4

Implications of Adoption

Answer 4

1. Adoption implies access

2. Adoption implies privilege

Question 5

Liberation because of the payment of a ransom

Answer 5

Redemption

Question 6

Implications of Redemption

Answer 6

1. Salvation involves a payment
2. God is the One who makes the payment, since it costs something greater than man could ever pay.
3. Salvation means freedom-not freedom from all masters, but freedom from an evil master to a good One.

Question 7

John Calvin called it “the main hinge on which religious turns.”
a legal declaration of righteousness

Answer 7

Justification

Question 8

Implications of Justification

Answer 8

1. God is the One who justifies
2. All believers have equal standing before God
3. God’s justice now requires our forgiveness

Question 9

“A change of relationship from hostility to harmony and peace between two parties” (Ryrie, 336)

Answer 9

Reconciliation

Question 10

Implications of reconciliation

Answer 10

1. Before salvation, we were God’s enemies, hated by Him
2. God took the initiative in reconciliation, demonstrating His love for us
3. Salvation includes a cessation of conflict

Question 11

The turning away of the wrath of God by an offering

Answer 11

Propitiation

Question 12

Implications of Propitiation

Answer 12

1. The division between God and man is caused not just by man’s sin, but by God’s anger over his sin.
2. God is the One who provides for His wrath to be appeased.

Question 13

Explain the acronym T.U.L.I.P

Answer 13

Total Depravity of Man
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints

Question 14

Explain Total Depravity

Answer 14

Sinfulness pervades all areas of life and human existence. Through the Fall of Man humanity is stained by sin in every aspect: heart, emotions will, mind, and body.

Question 15

Explain Unconditional election

Answer 15

God chooses who will be saved. People are dead in their sins so they are unable to initiate a response to God.

Question 16

Explain Limited Atonement

Answer 16

The purpose of God in the work of Christ was actually to save the elect

Question 17

Explain Irresistible Grace

Answer 17

The belief that God brings his Elect to salvation through an internal call, which they are powerless to resist. The Holy Spirit supplies grace to them until they repent and are born again.

Question 18

Explain Perseverance of the Saints

Answer 18

The view that the Elect cannot lose their salvation. None whom God has called will be lost, they are eternally secure.

Question 19

Passages that are used for the limited atonement view

Answer 19

Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24, Romans 8:32, Galatians 2:20 (many more)

Question 20

Passages that are used for the unlimited atonement view

Answer 20

2 Cor. 5:14-15, 1 Tim. 2:4-6, Heb. 2:9, 1 John 2:2,

Question 21

Passages that are used for the universal atonement

Answer 21

John 1:29, John 4:42, John 6:33, 2 Cor. 5:19-20,

Question 22

Unlimited Atonement

Answer 22

Christ died for the purpose of providing salvation for the entire world.

Question 23

Theologians who support unlimited atonement

Answer 23

Luther, Bullinger, Coverdale, Calvin (at times)

Question 24

Mediating Position

Answer 24

The divine intent of the atonement is universal in its provision and particular in its application.

Question 25

"one in place of another"

Answer 25

vicarious (substitutionary)

Question 26

"to purchase in the marketplace"

Answer 26

redemption

Question 27

"making peace with God"

Answer 27

reconciliation

Question 28

"the death of Christ fully satisfied all the righteous demands of God toward the sinner"

Answer 28

Propitiation

Question 29

Redemption | Manward, Sinward, or Godward?

Answer 29

Sinward

Question 30

Reconciliation | Manward, Sinward, or Godward?

Answer 30

Manward

Question 31

Propitiation | Manward, Sinward, or Godward?

Answer 31

Godward

Question 32

Forgiveness | Manward, Sinward, or Godward?

Answer 32

Manward

Question 33

Justification | Manward, Sinward, or Godward?

Answer 33

Manward

Question 34

Common Grace

Answer 34

If God is sovereign and man is depraved in his sinful state, then God must move to bring about reconciliation between man and God.

Question 35

Efficacious Grace

Answer 35

Brings man to a realization of his sin and of the righteousness of Jesus Christ; it is EFFECTIVE in those to whom it is given. (sometimes called special grace)

Question 36

The passage instructs the believers that they are the ones who are God's eternal plan, in contrast to the common perception that only Israel was God's chosen.

Answer 36

Ephesians 1:4

Question 37

The passage begins an entire chapter devoted to a defense of the literal, historical resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

Answer 37

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Question 38

The passage identifies Christ as the One through whom we are able to approach a holy God.

Answer 38

1 Timothy 2:5-6

Question 39

The passage follows the statement that "all have sinned". Because God is a just God and cannot violate his innate standards of justice, he must declare sinners "guilty."

Answer 39

Romans 3:24-26

Question 40

This passage states explicitly the "exchange" made possible through Christ.

Answer 40

2 Corinthians 5:21

Question 41

Man's attempts to conform himself to God's law do not result in salvation, for God's law requires absolutely conformity.

Answer 41

Galatians 2:16

Question 42

In this passage Paul anticipates the objection that salvation by grace through faith will lead to moral slackness. Rather, salvation not only changed our legal standing before God, but it also removed sin as being our master.

Answer 42

Romans 6:12-14

Question 43

In this passage Salvation has a practical manifestation in a person's life that distinguishes him from the present world. It distinguishes a person from the kinds of pursuits that those apart from God are bound by and instead sets his focus on the future coming of Christ.

Answer 43

Titus 2:11-14

Question 44

"to set apart"

Answer 44

sanctification

Question 45

3 types of sanctification:

Answer 45

1. Positional 2. Experiential 3. Ultimate

Question 46

Which sanctification? | This is the believer's position or standing before God, based on the death of Christ.

Answer 46

Positional

Question 47

Which sanctification? | May fluctuate because it relates to his daily life and experience

Answer 47

Experiential

Question 48

Which sanctification? | This aspect is future and anticipates the final transformation of the believer into the likeness of Christ

Answer 48

Ultimate