Midterm

Question 1

What are the names of the four historical groups whose theology developed away from correct biblical pneumatology as discussed in class?

Answer 1

1. Puritans
2. Methodists, Wesleyans
3. Holiness Pentecostals
4. Modern Pentecostals

Question 2

What did each of these groups believe the “second work” of the spirit was supposedly after conversion and what distinctive did that include for each?

Answer 2

1. Group 1: assurance of salvation
2. Group 2: sanctification; totally irradiated the sin nature
3. Group 3: Holy Ghost but evidenced by tongues
4. Group 4: empowerment for ministry

Question 3

How did the second group know they had received the so called “second work” of the Spirit and what did it supposedly eliminate?

Answer 3

An arbitrary feeling that showed you had eradicated the sin nature

Question 4

What was the different evidence for the third group as opposed to the second regarding evidence of the Spirit’s so called “second work”?

Answer 4

It was no longer an arbitrary feeling but was evidenced by tongues

Question 5

What did the fourth developing group stop practicing leaving the third group and how did that affect their pneumatology?

Answer 5

1. They left holiness.

3. They no longer saw sanctification as the second words so they said it was empowerment for ministry

Question 6

What two things did the OT anticipate but did not see fulfilled?

Answer 6

1. Future hope everyone would receive the spirit

2. Spirit- anointed ministry of the ideal King

Question 7

What did Jesus come to reverse?

Answer 7

The fall

Question 8

What does Luke 7:19-23 show?

Answer 8

God performing miracles

Question 9

In Romans 12:2 Paul says we are not to be conformed to what?

Answer 9

This world

Question 10

Life in the spirit can e called living in the overlap of what?

Answer 10

The 2 realms & one is fighting the other

Question 11

What does the new birth consist of according to John 3:8?

Answer 11

Pneuma= wind/spirit \
> the Spirit’s voice
Phone= sound/voice /

Question 12

Show why when Jesus says we “Must be born again of water and Spirit…” cannot refer to physical birth

Answer 12

John 3:3

Unless a person is born again they cannot enter, or even see the Kingdom of God

Question 13

What does “wind” stand for in John 3?

Answer 13

Pneuma or spirit

Question 14

What does the word “sound” refer to?

Answer 14

Phone or voice

Question 15

So Jesus says when the Spirit comes, what will you hear?

Answer 15

The Spirit’s voice

Question 16

According to acts 2:4 what is the voice of the spirit?

Answer 16

Speaking in other tongues (the Holy Ghost)

Question 17

According to John 3:8 and Acts 2:39 how many will speak with tongues?

Answer 17

Everyone

Question 18

According to James Dunn what is the components of salvation in the book of Acts?

Answer 18

1. Repentance
2. Baptism
3. Receiving the Holy Ghost

Question 19

What glaring mistakes does Dunn point out that most modern Pentecostals(non-apostolics) make regarding the baptism of the Holy Ghost?

Answer 19

That they believe that it is a second work of the Spirit to empower for ministry and not essential for salvation

Question 20

According to Dunn does the modern Pentecostal (non-apostolic) o emend follow the book of Acts model in regards to “initiation-conversion”? why or why not?

Answer 20

No, they believed that the gift of the Spirit is simply a second work apart from salvation