Explain the Following Flashcards
How do your Christian beliefs affect your understanding of what it means to be human?
- We are created in God’s image. Love is the way we most resemble God, because he IS love. We are created to love and to be loved by God.
- because of our sin, everything is broken (planet, relationships)
- but when we turn from sin and repent, we become a new person (2 Cor 5:17). The old life is gone, a new life begins.
- As a Christian I look to God, and the life of Jesus as a pattern for how I live.
- Trinity all equal, different roles (marriage, at work etc.)
- See other people as God’s special creation
Describe “the problem of sin”
- Creation was good, but freedom to choose “not God’s plan”
- Adam and Eve chose to sin - that is when all of the bad things like sickness and death came into the world.
- We are born into a broken world with a sinful nature.
- all separated from God, lacking ability to return things to their perfect state…
- We live in death every day - spiritual, physical, social, environmental
- Solution = new life through Christ, life now and eternity (Romans 8:2 … through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.)
What is Grace?
The blessing and favour God puts in our life even though we don’t deserve it. (Eph. 2:8-9)
Describe the process of Salvation
- On our own we lack the ability and desire to turn to God
- Because of God’s grace, he begins wooing us, and waiting for us.
- Conversion - repent and believe
- God’s response
- forgiven (no longer counts sins against us)
- justified (made right with God through Christ)
- born again (regeneration, old life is gone, new has begun)
- given the Holy Spirit
What does it mean to believe?
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” (Acts 16:31)
Clearly means more than just knowing in your head that something is true/real. Satan believes in Jesus. We are told that demonic powers of the devil proclaim him to be the Son of God. (Luke 4:34).
It also means trusting/relying on those facts. We must trust in him as LORD and Saviour.
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is LORD and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved” (Romans 10:9)
What is Canon?
Canon means that something measures up to a standard. 66 books of the Bible considered Canon - inspired words of the Holy Spirit
Scripture is considered Canon if:
- written by someone who was an eyewitness of Jesus or close connection to an apostle
- Did the book pass the “truth test”? (i.e., did it concur with other, already agreed-upon Scripture?).
- Confirmed by Christ, prophet, apostle
- Church used it and recognized it
What is the basis for the Christian concept of God as “Person”
This does not mean that He is a human being. It means that he has a mind, will and emotions. He is not some sort of force.
- God definitely has an intellect (Psalm 139:17 – How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be counted), emotions (Psalms he hates, loves, is angry), and will (1 Corinthians 1:1 – This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus…).
- This does not mean that He is a human being.
- God shows His personal nature in that
- He expresses anger (in the Psalms he is angry with the wicked)
- loves (1 John 4:8 – for anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love)
- hates (Psalms he hates those who love violence)
- teaches (taught his disciples and the multitudes)
- reproves (John 16:8)
- leads (Romans 8:14). All of these actions imply the fact that God is a person.
Substitutionary Atonement
This is God’s rescue plan for mankind! Substitutionary atonement refers to Jesus dying on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin.
- everyone sins. (Romans 3:23).
- The penalty for our sin is death (Romans 6:23).
- “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”.
- Death refers to “separation”. As sinners, when we die we deserve to spend eternity in hell, separated from God. But Jesus died on the cross, taking the punishment for our sins, so that we can experience freedom from sin, and can spend eternity in heaven with him.
- “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
- But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand…For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy. (Hebrew 10:12,14)
- “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5-6)
When should someone be baptized?
When a person is old enough to understand what it means, and is ready to enter fully into new life with Christ.
Jesus was baptized when he was going into ministry - ready to tell the world who he was (Matthew 3)
When Jesus gives the Great Commission he told us that we should baptize new believers (Matt. 28:19)
Romans 6 describes … Choosing to follow Jesus means leaving our old “Adam-like” humanity and entering into a new “Jesus-like” humanity. Baptism is a sacred symbol of that transition. Your old humanity dies with Jesus and your new humanity was raised with him from the dead. So when a person trusts in Jesus, their life becomes joined to his life. What is true of him becomes true of me.
Describe a book of the Bible chronologically ( both in Old and New Testament )
What verses would you use in leading someone to salvation?
Romans 3:23 Everyone needs salvation because all have sinned.
Romans 6:23 The price (or consequence) of sin is death. Jesus died for our sins. He paid the price for our death.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 10:9 - 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.
Romans 8:1 – There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 10:13 – Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Responding to Romans Road
If you believe Romans Road leads to the path of truth, you can respond by receiving God’s free gift of salvation today. Here’s how to take your personal journey down Romans Road:
Fourfold Gospel
Jesus is our Saviour.
In justification we come into the first benefits of salvation, the sacrifice of Christ is credited to us and we are renewed in our inner being.
Sanctifier
In sanctification we are united with Christ in dying to sin and are raised with him to new life as we continually abide in him.
Healer
Divine healing is another experience of resurrection life in the present. The physical benefits of the resurrection are available although sickness and death are still active.
Coming King
We are preparing ourselves for the coming of the King when Christ’s return will usher in the full benefits of the atonement which we now only glimpse
