Soteriology

Question 1

Ordo Salutis

Answer 1

Predestination
Union with Christ
Calling
Regeneration
Faith and Repentance/Conversion
Justification
Adoption
Sanctification
Perseverance
Glorification

Question 2

Key Passages about Ordo Salutis

Answer 2

Rom. 8:28-30; Eph. 1:3-14;

Question 3

Key Passages about Regeneration

Answer 3

Ezek. 36:25-27 (take away heart of stone and give heart of flesh)
John 3:3-8 (Nicodemus - born again)

Question 4

Verse on Assurance of Salvation

Answer 4

1 Jn. 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.”

Question 5

Argument against Easy Believism

Answer 5

Easy Believism is a practical denial of the necessity of regeneration.

Question 6

Is faith the cause of justification?

Answer 6

Faith is not the cause of justification. However, it is God’s appointed instrument to receive it.

Question 7

Is justification contingent upon faith?

Answer 7

Justification in one’s actual experience: it is contingent upon faith.

Question 8

Justification: judge or surgeon?

Answer 8

Judge - Biblically, it means “to declare legally righteous.” condemnation does not involve infusing of condemnation into man, so justification cannot either. Judge’s decision does not make someone something,

Question 9

Verses on Justification

Answer 9

2 Cor. 5:21 "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
Rom 5 (whole chapter)

Question 10

Is the merit of faith is in itself?

Answer 10

The merit of faith is not in itself. Salvation is not a reward for my work of faith, but for Christ’s work, to which faith is an instrument.

Question 11

Key Players in “New Perspective on Paul”

Answer 11

Sanders - We got 1st Century Judism wrong; Dunn - we got “works of the law” wrong;
NT Wright - popularized it;