Doctrines (Proofs) Flashcards
Total Depravity
Gen 6:5 (Every intention of his heart)
Eph 2:1-3 (And you were dead in the trespasses and sins)
Imputation of Adam’s Sin
Romans 5:12 (sin entered through one man)
1 Cor 15:21-22 (death came through one man)
Imperfection in Believers
Ecclesiastes 7:20 (There is not a just man upon earth who has not sinned)
1 John 1:8,10 (If we say that we have no sin, we make him a liar)
Galatians 5:17 (Spirit and flesh against one another)
Covenant of Works
Genesis 1-3 (commands about the tree)
Hosea 6:7 (Like Israel, they transgressed the covenant)
New Covenant
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Luke 22:20 (New covenant in my blood)
Incarnation
John 1:14 (Word become flesh and dwelt among us)
Phil 2:7 - Emptied himself
Hypostatic Union
Colossians 2:9 - Fullness of deity in bodily form
John 1:14 - Word became flesh and dwelt among us
Virgin Birth
Isaiah 7:14 (A virgin will bear a Son)
Luke 1:34 (How will this be, since I am a virgin?)
Covenant of Redemption
John 6:38-39 (I have come to do the will of him who sent me)
John 17
Propitiation
1 John 2:2
Romans 3:25 (God put forward as a propitiation by his blood)
General Revelation
Psalm 19
Romans 1
Special Revelation
Hebrews 1:1-4 (God spoke in various ways)
Psalm 19:7-11(Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul)
Inspiration
2 Tim 3:16 (All Scripture is God breathed)
2 Peter 1:21(Men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit)
Divinity of Each Member of the Trinity
Father: Deut 6:4 (The Lord our God, the Lord is One)
Son: John 1:1
Spirit: Acts 5:4 (Lying against Spirit is lying against God), Eph 4:30
God a Spirit
John 4:24 (God is a Spirit, must worship in Spirit and truth)
Acts 17:29 (Godhead does not take a form)
Eternal
Ps 90:2 (Before the mountains were brought forth, you were there)
Rev 1:4,8 (Alpha and Omega)
Unchangeable
James 1:17 (God has no variation or shadow due to change)
Malachi 3:6 (I change not, therefore you are not consumed)
Wisdom
Romans 11:33-34 (Depths and riches)
1 John 3:20 (God knows all things)
James 1:5 (Ask God for wisdom)
Power
Ps 62:11 (Power belongs to God)
Matthew 19:26 (With God all things are possible)
Holiness
Isaiah 6:1-7
1 Peter 1:15-16 (He who called you is holy)
Justice
Exodus 34:6-7
Deut 32:4 (His work is perfect. His ways are justice)
Goodness
Ps 103:5 (Satisfies with good things)
James 1:17 (all good things come from above from the Father)
Truth
Ex 34:6 (abundant in goodness and TRUTH)
Heb 6:18 (impossible for God to lie)
Infinite
1 Kings 8:27 (God cannot be contained on earth or in heaven)
Psalm 145:3 (His greatness is unsearchable)
Limited Atonement
Matthew 1:21 (He will save his people from his sins)
John 6:37 (All that the Father gives to me will come to me)
John 10:11 (Shepherd lays his life down for the sheep)
Predestination
John 16:15
Romans 9
Election
John 6:37: All that the Father gives to me will come to me
Romans 9
Ephesians 1:4 - Chosen in him before the foundation of the world
Irresistible Grace/Regeneration
Ezekiel 36:26-27: I will give you a new heart, removing the heart of flesh
Acts 11:18 - God grants to Gentiles repentance unto life
Free Will
James 1:13-14: Enticed by own desire
John 5:40: You will not come to me
Total Inability
Eph 2:1,5 (Dead in sin)
John 6:44 - No man can come unless drawn by the Father
Romans 8:7 - Cannot please God
Effectual Calling
Acts 13:48 - As many as were ordained to eternal life believed when they heard the message
Romans 8:30 - Those predestined he also called - Acts 16:14 (God opens Lydia’s heart to pay attention to what Paul says)
Justification
Romans 3:24 - Justified freely by his grace
Romans 4:6-8 - God imputes righteousness apart from works.
Romans 5:1
Galatians 2:15-21
Adoption
1 John 3:1 - What manner of love that we are called “sons of God”
Romans 8:15-17 - Receive Spirit of adoption. Joint heirs
Galatians 4:1-7
Sanctification
Phil 2:13 - God works in us to will and do his good pleasure
Ezekiel 36:27 I will cause you to walk in my statutes
1 Thess 5:23 - May the God of peace sanctify you wholly.
Perspicuity
Acts 17:11 (They search and are able to find the answers)
Psalm 119:130 (Word gives understanding to the simple)
Innerancy
2 Tim 3:16-17 (God breathed)
Num 23:19 (God is not a man that he should lie)
Heb 6:18 (Impossible for God to lie)
Sin
Leviticus 5:17 (It is doing what ought not to be done)
James 4:17 (Knowing the right thing and not doing it)
Original Sin
Romans 5:12,19
Romans 3:10
Covenant of Grace
Gen 12, 15, 17
Gen 3
Resurrected Body
1 Corinthians 15
2 Corinthians 5
OT Believers Saved by Christ
Romans 4:1-12 (Abe and David)
Galatians 3:9 (Those of faith blessed with Abraham)
Hebrews 11 (Hall of Faith)
Perseverance of the Saints
Phil 1:6 (He who began a good work will complete it)
John 10:27-29 (No one will snatch)
Romans 8:29-30 (Golden chain)
One Way of Salvation
John 14:6
1 Timothy 2:5 (One mediator between God and man)
Saving Faith
Eph 2:8 (By grace you have been saved through faith)
Phil 3:9 (righteousness that depends on faith)
Faith Not All Alike
Matthew 6:28-30 (O you of little faith?)
Matthew 8:10 (great faith of the centurion)
Confession
Psalm 51
1 John 1:9
James 5:16 (confess sins to one another)
What are Good Works?
Micah 6:8 (God shows what is good)
Romans 10:2 (Zeal without knowledge)
Faith and Works
James 2 (Faith without works is dead)
Eph 2:10 (created in Christ for good works)
1 John
Good works save?
Romans 3:20 (No one justified by the law)
Eph 2:8-9 (saved by grace, lest one boast)
Oaths and Christians
Hebrews 6:16 - Men swear by the greater
Matthew 5:33-37… Must do our oaths, but better to let yes be yes and no be no
Jesus as Head of the Church
Colossians 1:18 (He is the head of the body, the church)
Eph 1:22 (gave him as head over all things to the church)
Unity of the Church
John 17:20-21
Eph 4:1-16
Holiness of the church
1 Peter 2:9 (A holy nation)
2 Cor 6:14-7:1 (Called to be holy)
Catholicity of the Church
Gal 3:28
Rev 12 (All nations)
Apostolicity
Matthew 16:18-19
Acts 2:42-47
Ephesians 2:20
Sovereignty and Responsibility
Acts 2:23 - The definite plan of God, though men crucified him
Gen 50:20 - They meant for evil, God meant for good.
Personal Devil?
Matthew 4:1-11
1 Peter 5:8
Corruption of Sin
Psalm 51:5
Romans 3:10-18
Adam’s Will Before the Fall?
Eccl 7:29 - Created upright, they sought out many schemes
Gen 1:26
God without sin
Psalm 5:4 (God has no pleasure in wickedness)
1 John 1:5 (In him there is no darkness at all)
James 1:13 (God cannot be tempted with evil)
Reprobation
Romans 9:17-18, 21-22 (Potter has power over the clay)
1 Peter 2:8 (They stumble as they were destined to)
Christ as Prophet
Acts 3:20,22 (A prophet will come from among you like me)
Deut 18:15
Christ as Priest
Hebrews 5:5-6 (Did not exalt himself to be high priest)
Hebrews 10:1-18
Christ as King
Psalm 2:6
Isaiah 9:6 (Government upon his shoulders)
Ps 110
Imputation of Righteousness
Romans 4:5-8 (God imputes righteousness without works)
2 Cor 5:19,21 (Made the righteousness of God)
Necessity of Repentance
Luke 13:3-5 (unless you repent, you will all perish)
Acts 17:30-31 (God commands all people everywhere to repent)