Soteriology

Question 1

Soteriology

Answer 1

The Study of Salvation

Question 2

Hamartiology

Answer 2

The Study of Sin

Question 3

Pelagianism

Answer 3

HERESY! Idea that you are not quite dead - you can make the first move toward salvation.

Question 4

Total Depravity

Answer 4

Though you are not as bad as you could be, every part of you is touched by sin.

Question 5

Ordo Salutis

Answer 5

Order of salvation: Foreknowledge/Predestination, Calling, Regeneration, Conversion, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and Glorification.

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Historia Salutis

Answer 6

History of salvation.

Question 7

Euangelion

Answer 7

Good news.

Question 8

Predestination

Answer 8

The plan or purpose of God executed in eternity past to save condemned sinners and restore them to fellowship with Himself.

Question 9

Conditional Election

Answer 9

Classical Armenian Position - God from eternity past looks into the future and He sees in their freedom who will come to Him and choose Him in their freedom/free will.

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Prevenient Grace

Answer 10

God extends grace to all people, making Him the first mover in salvation. This enables you to freely choose the Lord.

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Unconditional Election

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There is no condition that needs to be met on behalf of the person. Instead, the choice of election is entirely up to God.

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Universal Call

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Given to all people - everyone ought to believe in Christ.

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Effectual Call

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Special calling for those who are elect - God’s calling of the elect will be effective.

Question 14

Regeneration

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The radical and complete transformation, wrought in the soul by God the Holy Spirit, by virtue of which we become new creatures.

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Faith

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Knowledge, conviction, and trust.

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Repentance

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Repentance yields life.

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Monergism

Answer 17

Only one party is active: God.

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Synergism

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Corporate action - two parties are active: God and the person being saved.

Question 19

Justification

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A judicial act of God in which He declares, on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that all of the claims of the law are satisfied with respect to the sinner.

Question 20

Infused Righteousness

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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is infused in believers throughout their lifetime as they perform particular (sacramental) acts.

Question 21

Purgatory

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Intermediate state between life on earth and life in heaven - place of purification for the dead.

Question 22

Indulgences

Answer 22

Sold the “leftover” righteousness of the apostles, saints, and Christ.

Question 23

Tetzel

Answer 23

Famous indulgence-seller.

Question 24

Martin Luther

Answer 24

Catholic monk, theologian, professor.

Question 25

Imputed Righteousness

Answer 25

Declaration of once-and-for-all righteousness given to the believer.

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Active Obedience

Answer 26

Christ actively fulfilling the law and procuring obedience by virtue of what he actually performed.

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Passive Obedience

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Righteousness that Christ procures by what he allows to happen to him in order to be our substitute.

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The Great Exchange

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We impute to Christ our sin and the punishment that we deserved - Christ, in exchange, imputes to us his righteousness and the reward.

Question 29

The Five Solas

Answer 29

Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Solas Christus, Sola Scriptura, Soli Deo Gloria

Question 30

Sola Gratia

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Grace alone

Question 31

Sola Fide

Answer 31

Faith alone

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Solus Christus

Answer 32

Christ alone

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Sola Scriptura

Answer 33

Scripture alone

Question 34

Soli Deo Gloria

Answer 34

Glory to God alone

Question 35

Justification

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Justification is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone through which we read authoritatively in the scripture alone for the glory of God alone.

Question 36

Adoption

Answer 36

God doesn't just pay for your sins and love you, He actually likes you.

Question 37

Sanctification

Answer 37

So be set apart for a particular purpose.

Question 38

Definitive Sanctification

Answer 38

You are sanctified.

Question 39

Progressive Sanctification

Answer 39

You are still a sinner.

Question 40

Simul Justus et Peccator

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Simultaneously just and sinner.

Question 41

Three Tense Sanctification

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Past, present, and future.

Question 42

The Already / Not Yet

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This is the tension of the Christian life.

Question 43

Legalism

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Makes light of justification and emphasizes sanctification.

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Antinomianism

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Makes light of sanctification and emphasizes justification.

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Perseverance

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Emphasis on us.

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Preservation

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Emphasis on God.

Question 47

Apostasy

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The idea that you can lose your salvation or leave the faith.

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Means of Grace

Answer 48

Things that keep us focused on the Lord and nourish our souls.

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Glorification

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At the end of all things, the Lord will make everything new, including the earth.

Question 50

Union with Christ

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That which is Christ's becomes ours.

Question 51

Christus Victor / Ransom Theory

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The view of the early church - God ransoms humans with Christ, who will be victorious over Satan.

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Moral Influence Theory

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Maintains that God's love overwhelms sinners' resistance.

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Satisfaction Theory

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Jesus is the satisfaction on behalf of humans who have offended God.

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Governmental Theory

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Jesus pays for the injustice of man.

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Penal Substitution Theory

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Emphasizes that Jesus was the substitute for the penalty of sin.

Question 56

Propitiation

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Removal of God's wrath.

Question 57

Expiation

Answer 57

Removal of sin.