Lesson 9 – Apostolic Interpretation (Part 1) – Lesson Review

Question 1

1. What is the basis for Pentecostalism?

Answer 1

A supernatural biblical experience and relationship with the one true God of Scripture.

Question 2

2. The supernatural elements in Scripture are not what?

Answer 2

Not myths, legends, or embellishments they are genuine.

Question 3

3. What the Bible teachers ALWAYS overrides what?

Answer 3

Overrides any understandings or experience that does not align and harmonise with the context and scope of Scripture.

Question 4

4. What is a common error in Western theology?

Answer 4

Faulty assumption that explicit instructions are of most value while narrative (story) are of little or no value.

Question 5

5. What do Pentecostals see as the supreme authority for experience, teaching, and practice of the New Testament church?

Answer 5

Pentecostals look to the example of the apostles

Question 6

6. While Protestants look to reform the existing church, Pentecostals seek to what?

Answer 6

To restore the original church.

Question 7

7. Who had the best and most accurate understanding of what God intended for the NT church?

Answer 7

The first century apostles and their associates not the so-called church fathers of later centuries.

Question 8

8. Name three things that are necessary for salvation:
   a.
   b.
   c.

Answer 8

a. Repentance
b. Water baptism by immersion in Jesus name
c. The infilling of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues as the universal sign

Question 9

9. Which three well-known non-Pentecostal theologians acknowledged that baptism in Jesus’ name was the biblical formula practised by the early apostles?
   a.
   b.
   c.

Answer 9

a. Martin Luther
b. Ulrich Zwingli
c. Karl Barth