4/9/2016

Question 1

What is God’s work of creation?

Answer 1

God making all things out of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days and all very good.

Question 2

What is providence?

Answer 2

Preserving and governing all his creations and all their actions.

Question 3

What does God require of man?

Answer 3

Obedience to his revealed will

Question 4

How did God create human beings?

Answer 4

God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Question 5

How can original sin be reconciled to the canons of justice, either human or divine?

Answer 5

Original sin is not only reconcilable with the perfect justice of God, his justice requires it. Adam was a head of mankind.

Question 6

Does a believer have free will? Include Scripture

Answer 6

Yes, Romans 6:18 “You have been set free from sin and have becomes slaves to righteousness.”

Question 7

Union of God and Man in Christ

Answer 7

Hebrew 1:1-4 “ [1] Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, [2] but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. [3] He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, [4] having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.”

Question 8

Define Jesus

Answer 8

He will save his people from their sins.

Question 9

Define Son of Man

Answer 9

Jesus’s title for himself. Taken from Daniel.

Question 10

Define Christ

Answer 10

Messiah, anointed one of God.

Question 11

Define Son of God

Answer 11

Jesus unique reality as the second member of the Trinity.

Question 12

Define Lord

Answer 12

NT designation for Christ as Yahweh.

Question 13

Define Lamb of God

Answer 13

Jesus as sacrificial lamb who takes the sins of the world.

Question 14

Virgin Birth Scripture

Answer 14

Isaiah 7; Luke 1

Question 15

What is extra calvinisticum?

Answer 15

While the Son is really and truly present through his human nature–it is precisely his human nature–he is not limited or boxed in by it. He transcends beyond it as he always has. Coined by Lutherans to describe calvinistic doctrine of

Question 16

Active Obedience of Christ

Answer 16

The active obedience refers to His whole life of obeying the Law of God whereby He qualifies to be the Savior. He qualifies to be the Lamb without blemish.

Question 17

Passive Obedience of Christ

Answer 17

The passive obedience of Christ refers to His willingness to submit to the pain that is inflicted upon Him by the Father on the cross in the atonement. He passively receives the curse of God there.

Question 18

Define Expiation

Answer 18

atonement for sins through the death of Christ on the cross as the sacrifice once and for all

Question 19

Define Propitiation

Answer 19

turn away/satisfy God’s wrath

Question 20

Define Reconciliation

Answer 20

Restoring alienated people back into fellowship with God

Question 21

Define Redemption

Answer 21

To buy back at a price

Question 22

Define Imputation

Answer 22

To charge to one’s account. Christ’s righteousness is imputed to believers.

Question 23

Can anyone not called by the Spirit be saved?

Answer 23

No. Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and your name drive our demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly. I never knew you. Depart from me, you evil doers.”

Question 24

When is a Christian justified?

Answer 24

When the HS applies the work of Christ to you by faith

Question 25

Can anyone become perfect in this life?

Answer 25

No. Romans 7 “[20] Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.”

Question 26

What is Saving Faith?

Answer 26

John 3:16 [16] “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Question 27

What does Saving Faith believe?

Answer 27

Romans 10:9 “[9] because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Question 28

What is repentance?

Answer 28

A sinner out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it, unto God will full purpose of and endeavor after new obedience. Acts 2:37-38

Question 29

What are the means of grace?

Answer 29

Word, sacraments, and prayer

Question 30

Who is the Lord of the conscience?

Answer 30

God alone. 1 Cor 10:25-26 “Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of the conscience, for, the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.

Question 31

What is the regulative principle?

Answer 31

The manner in which we worship God should be in accordance with what he has instituted himself in his revealed will, the Scriptures. Deuteronomy 12:32 “See to it that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.”

Question 32

Who is to be worshipped?

Answer 32

God alone. Matthew 4:10 “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”

Question 33

Should Christians keep the Sabbath?

Answer 33

Yes. Genesis 2:2-3 “[2] And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. [3] So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”

Question 34

How should the sabbath be kept?

Answer 34

Exodus 20:8-11 “[8] “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. [11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”

Question 35

Continental View of Sabbath

Answer 35

Stresses the ceremonial and typological view of the Jewish Sabbath. Calvin’s view.

Question 36

Westminster View of Sabbath

Answer 36

Creation mandate and therefore moral and universal in scope

Question 37

Proper duties of civil authorities?

Answer 37

1 Timothy 2:2 “I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.”

Question 38

Purpose of Marriage

Answer 38

Marriage is for one man and one woman for their mutual help, the increase of mankind and to prevent uncleanness.

Question 39

Divorce

Answer 39

Matthew 5:31-32 and 1 Corinthians 7:15

Question 40

Remarry

Answer 40

Romans 7:2-3 “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.”

Question 41

Marks of the Church?

Answer 41

Acts 2:42-44 “[42] And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”

Question 42

What is Subscription? What do you hold?

Answer 42

Refers to the vow of a church officer to submit himself to the system of doctrine and confessional standards of the PCA. Vital to the system view, which maintains that an exception can be taken as long as it does not affect the articles essential to the system.

Question 43

What authority does the church possess?

Answer 43

They possess the keys to the kingdom, which is the power to retain and remit sins. To shut the kingdom to impenitent sinners and to open the kingdom to penitent sinners.

Question 44

What authority do church councils possess?

Answer 44

ecclesiastical and not civil. They are intended to help in both faith and practice. They are not the rule of faith and practice (only the bible).

Question 45

What happens to unbelievers at death?

Answer 45

Cast into hell. Jude 1:6-7 “[6] And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—[7] just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.”

Question 46

What was the HS work in the OT

Answer 46

Shaping creation, revealing God’s message, eliciting faith, repentance, obedience and righteousness. (SER)

Question 47

What is the HS function today?

Answer 47

Generation of life, preparing men for office, inspiring of Scripture, forming the church, and teaching the church. P-GIFT

Question 48

What happened at Pentecost?

Answer 48

Spirit began to indwell in the church empowering apostles to teach the gospel.

Question 49

How does the spirit come?

Answer 49

Like a dove, in tongues of fire at Pentecost, through the hearing of the Word

Question 50

How does the spirit work?

Answer 50

In our hearts and with the word

Question 51

What is the ministry of the spirit?

Answer 51

Sealing us our union with Christ

Question 52

Framework Theory

Answer 52

Creation week itself is a poetic figure and that the several pictures of creation history are set within the six work-day frames not chronologically but topically. Moses used the metaphor of a week to narrate God’s acts of creation. Thus God’s supernatural creative words or fiats are real and historical, but the exact timing is left unspecified.

Question 53

Day Age Theory

Answer 53

The ‘six days’ are understood in the same sense as “in that day” of Isaiah 11:10-11[57] —that is, as periods of indefinite length and not necessarily of 24 hours duration. The days are sequential, but as overlapping and merging into one another. Genesis 1 is from the point of view of the earth as being prepared for the habitation of man.

Question 54

Analogical Day Theory

Answer 54

The 6 days of creation are “God’s work-days, which are analogous, and not necessarily identical, to our work days, structured for the purpose of setting a pattern for our own rhythm of rest and work.” In this view, “the six “days” represent periods of God’s historical supernatural activity in preparing and populating the earth as a place for humans to live, love, work, and worship.”

Question 55

Unity on Gen 1-3

Answer 55

Written by Moses, historical not mythical, heavens and earth are created ex-nihilo, Adam and Eve are our first parents, the fall happened.

Question 56

Sola Scriptura

Answer 56

Foundation for faith and practice is NOT a combination of the scriptures, sacred tradition, and the teachings of the magisterium and the pope.

Question 57

Sola Gratia

Answer 57

We are NOT saved through a combination of God’s grace, the merits that we accumulate through penance and good works, and the superfluity of merits that the saints before us accumulated.

Question 58

Sola Fide

Answer 58

We are NOT justified by faith and the works that we produce, which the righteousness that God infuses in us through faith brings about.

Question 59

Sola Christus

Answer 59

We are NOT saved by the merits of Christ and the saints, and that we approach God through Christ, the saints, and Mary, who all pray and intercede for us.

Question 60

Sola Deo Gloria

Answer 60

The glory for a sinner’s salvation should NOT be attributed partly to Christ, partly to Mary and the saints, and partly to the sinner himself.