Calvinsim -Arminiansim - Biblicism

Question 1

Calvinism acronym

Answer 1

TULIP
Total depravity- total inability to respond to Gods call - all men reject God)
Unconditional election -God chooses some who will be saved apart from any dependence upon foreknowledge of their response.
Limited atonement - Christ died only for the elect
Irresistible Grace - God unconditionally regenerates and then draws the elect to irresistibly to believe and receive salvation
Perseverance - of the saints. All the true elect will be faithful to the end.

Question 2

Total ability
(Denies man’s total sinfulness)
Conditional election
( Gods choice is based solely upon man’s response)
Unlimited atonement ( Christ died for all)
Resistible grace
Conditional preservation ( based solely on man’s faithfulness)

Answer 2

Arminianism

Question 3

Total depravity with enabling grace and free will - all men would reject God’s call so God therefore gives sufficient grace to enable all men to freely respond to or reject His call.

Answer 3

Biblicists

Question 4

Gods choice is based solely upon man’s response

Answer 4

Arminianism -Conditional election

Question 5

Unlimited atonement

Answer 5

Arminianism -Christ died for all

Question 6

It is true that no man seeks or would accept God. God therefore sovereignly chose to provide to all men sufficient ENABLING GRACE so that all men may freely accept or freely reject Gods call to salvation without any merit on their part.

Answer 6

Resistible grace - Arminianism

Question 7

Man’s preservation is not dependent upon man’s perseverance but upon Gods sovereign grace.

Answer 7

conditional preservation - Arminianism

Question 8

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor ; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man

Answer 8

Hebrews 2:9

Question 9

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Answer 9

2 Peter 2:1

Question 10

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

Answer 10

John 12:32

Question 11

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men

Answer 11

Titus 2:11

Question 12

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Answer 12

1 Peter 1:5

Question 13

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out , that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Answer 13

1 John 2:19

Question 14

Know that those who Christ tells to depart from Him in Matthew 7:15-23 were false teachers who trusted in their works. They were wolves, not sheep and Christ said he never knew them. They said lord lord but never did the will of the father - which is to believe on Christ

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Know that those who escaped immorality through the knowledge of Christ in 2 Peter 2:20-22, but whose latter end was worse than their beginning were dogs and hogs ( not sheep) who returned to their sin because they had reformation without regeneration ( their inner nature was never changed)

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Know that a persons part, not name, is removed in Revelation 22:18-19 (meaning God’s provision for their salvation is removed upon their absolute and final rejection of God).

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Know that believing in vain in 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 is believing in Christ, but not the resurrection.

Know that the English word damnation may refer to earthly chastisement in some passages.

Know that falling from grace in Galatians 5:4 is returning to a trust in works to keep your salvation (it is not sinning so as to lose salvation)

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Know that Matthew 24:13 “ he that shall endure to the end…shall be saved” refers to enduring without taking the mark during the tribulation

and that the breaking off of branches in Romans 11:21-22 refers to removing nations from the position of national blessing.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Know that many passages, such as Ezekiel 3:20; 33:12, which warn of death for the righteous who sin, speak of physical death.

Know that the Book of Life may refer to physical death, such as in Exodus 32:32-33.

Know that “the sins of the past” in Romans 3:25 are sins before the Cross, not before an individuals conversion.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

The Roman Road of Salvation

Answer 20

Romans 3:10, 23 - all are guilty of sin
Romans 6:23 - all deserve death in hell for their sin
Romans 5:8 - Christ paid our debt for us and took our punishment for us by dying for us on the cross.
Romans 6:23 - Christ now offers us salvation as an absolutely free gift of grace
Romans 10:9-10, 13. We receive Christ by believing on Christ in our hearts and calling upon God with our lips.

Question 21

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourself: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Answer 21

Ephesians 2:8-9

Question 22

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit

Answer 22

1 Peter 3:18

Question 23

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Answer 23

2 Corinthians 5:21

Question 24

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Answer 24

Romans 11:6

Question 25

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Answer 25

Galatians 2:21

Question 26

The T in Tulip

Answer 26

Total depravity - total inability to respond to God’s call

Question 27

U in Tulip

Answer 27

Unconditional election

Question 28

L in Tulip

Answer 28

Limited Atonement - Christ died for only the elect

Question 29

I in Tulip

Answer 29

Irresistible grace - God unconditionally regenerates and then draws the elect to irresistibly believe and to receive salvation

Question 30

P in Tulip

Answer 30

Perseverance - of all the saints. All true believers will be faithful to the end