Salvation/Soteriology

Question 1

SOTERIOLOGY

Answer 1

1. If there were no consequences to every sin, God could not be just
2. God, however, is not only just but loving, and is therefore loathe to let sin’s natural end transpire
3. The resolution of these two permanent aspects of God’s nature came at His own initiative, by His own person, and at supreme cost
4. This resolution - paying personally the death penalty for man’s sin - is multifaceted and demands complex terminology
5. Theories of atonement
6. Noted issues in soteriology

Question 2

Consequences to sin - Gods justice

Answer 2

• all sin must and does bring death
• If God were to abrogate this, His nature would be less than immaculate, moral fabric of the cosmos would cease to be
• with no other contingency, the effort for man is universally terminal

Question 3

God is loving

Answer 3

• He is not willing that anyone perish
• this is not in any way due to man’s desirability, but to God’s benevolence
• God shows love to us because HE is love, not because we are lovable

Question 4

The resolution of these two aspects of God came at His own initiative, by His own person, at supreme cost

Answer 4

• any act of creation, being in the eternal counsels of God from the first place
• actualized in the Heilsgeschichte - salvation history

Question 5

This resolution demands complex theology

Answer 5

Propitiation - covering
Redemption - ransom 
Regeneration - rebirth/renew
Reconciliation - a 'cease fire' and embrace 
Deliverance - 'rescuing'
Healing - a 'wholeness'
Justification - a 'rightness' 
Adoption - a 'grafting'
Atonement - a 'satisfaction'

Question 6

THEORIES OF ATONEMENT

Answer 6

1. Subjective/moral influence view
2. Governmental view
3. The federal view
4. Penal substitution view

Question 7

Subjective/moral influence view

Answer 7

What Jesus did served as an example to emulate. Contains truth, but inadequate

Question 8

Governmental view

Answer 8

Jesus upheld the moral law of God’s universe, God then simply gave men amnesty. Also inadequate

Question 9

The Federal view

Answer 9

I am subject to Christ’s salvation via headship, just as I was subject to death via Adam

Question 10

Penal Substitution view

Answer 10

Jesus took my penalty for me. Stated carefully, it is biblical in combination with….. biblical atonement

Question 11

Biblical Atonement

Answer 11

VICARIOUS - on behalf of another
SUBSTITUTIONARY - in the very place of another 
IMPUTED - credited to another
UNMERITED - gifted to another
APPROPRIATED - implemented by

Question 12

Noted issues in Soteriology

Answer 12

WORKS - What is necessary?
FAITH - What is relevant?
PROVISION - who is desired?

Question 13

FAITH - What is relevant? Greek words

Answer 13

Notitia- ‘I understand Jesus is reported to have risen’
Assensus - ‘I accept that report as valid’
Fiducia - ‘I commit myself to the ramifications of that validity’

Question 14

TULIP (five tenets of Calvinism)

Answer 14

Total depravity
Unconditional election
Limited atonement 
Irresistible grace
Perseverance of the saints (eternal security)

Question 15

COGNITION vs. CAUSATION

Answer 15

Cognition is not causation - just because God knows something, doesn’t mean He causes it to be that way