Authority

Question 0

2 Pet. 1:3

Answer 0

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Question 1

2 Tim. 3:16-17

Answer 1

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Question 2

2 Pet 1:20-21

Answer 2

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Question 3

Jn. 17:17

Answer 3

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

Question 4

2 Thess. 3: 14-15

Answer 4

Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.

Question 5

Gal. 1:11-12

Answer 5

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

Question 6

Heb. 4:12-13

Answer 6

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Question 7

Jam. 1:21

Answer 7

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

Question 8

Jn. 12:48

Answer 8

There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.

Question 9

2 pet. 3:15-16

Answer 9

Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Question 10

1 John 1:9-10

Answer 10

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

Question 11

Jn. 8:31-32

Answer 11

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Question 13

Mt. 15:1-9

Do not go by traditions or creeds

Answer 13

Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!” Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God, he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:’These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.

Question 14

1 Tim. 4:16

Answer 14

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Question 15

Acts 17:10-12

Answer 15

As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.

Question 16

Rom. 15:4

Answer 16

For everything that was written long ago was written to instruct us, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.

Question 17

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Answer 17

Jn. 8:32

Question 18

In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Answer 18

Eph 3:4

Question 19

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Answer 19

Eph 5:17

Question 20

Gerald D. Studer. “Many Christians, perhaps most of us, are simply content to follow the party line. If this leaves some biblical data unaccounted for, we protect ourselves either by saying that not all of us can be theologians or we take comfort in the fact that ‘this is the way we have been taught!”

Answer 20

3. Gerald Studer, After Death, What? 111.

Question 21

Reformed theologian John R. Franke, “without reservation that no single human perspective, be it that of an individual or a particular community or a theological tradition, is adequate to do full justice to the faith of God’s revelation in Christ.”

Answer 21

John R. Franke, The Character of Theology, 79.

Question 22

For evangelicals of today to affirm uncritically what evangelicals thought and did in the past is to be trapped by a tradition. It does not matter whether the tradition in question is evangelical or not. The key point is that it is a tradition … At least in principle, we must recognize that our distinguished forbears may require gentle and godly correction—in precisely the same way as future generations may wish, with equal gentleness and godliness, to correct us in our beliefs and practices. This is a painful insight; it is, however, an essential and biblical insight.

Answer 22

Alister McGrath, “The Importance of Tradition,” 164.

Question 23

The challenge of living with tradition is not so much … that one should let Scripture and tradition flow together straightforwardly into a single stream, but that tradition should be allowed to be itself; that is, the living voice of the very human church as it struggles with Scripture, sometimes misunderstanding it and sometimes gloriously getting it right. That is why the challenge comes fresh to each generation. Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

Answer 23

N.T. Wright, Last Word, 119.