Soteriology Questions

Question 1

Meaning of Mediator

Answer 1

The office and function where the heart of God’s plan of salvation centers
One who could go between an offended God and a helpless sinful creature, man. Job 9:32-33 NIV

Question 2

Provisions that have been made

Answer 2

1. Death of Christ
2. The burial
3. The resurrection
4. The ascension
5. The exaltation

Question 3

Importance of the death of Christ

Answer 3

The importance given to it in Scriptures
Its relation to the Incarnation
It is one of the two fundamental truths of the Gospel Its necessity for man’s salvation

Question 4

List the Types of the death of Christ

Answer 4

1. The Coats of Skins (Gen. 3:21)
2. Abel’s Offering (Gen. 4:4)
3. The Offering of Isaac (Gen. 22)
4. The Passover lamb (Exo. 12)
5. The Levitical Sacrificial System (Lev. 1-7)
6. The Brazen Serpent (Num. 21; Jn. 3:14)
7. The Slain Lamb (Isa. 53:6,7)

Question 5

Vicarious death - Explain

Answer 5

means a substitution (VICAR - substitute). Christ became our substitute by bearing our sins on the cross. He did not bear His own sins but our sins (1 Pet 2:22).

Question 6

Define: Vicar

Answer 6

A substitute, one who takes the place of another and acts in his stead.

Question 7

Define: Atonement

Answer 7

Means a covering. This refers to the entire provision of salvation which God made for sinners through the sacrifice of Jesus. It is a covering of the guilt of a criminal.

Question 8

Define: Reconciliation

Answer 8

This word is applied to both God and man. Enmity arose betweon God
and man because of man’s sin. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ changed this enmity to that of peace and fellowship. (Col 1:20, Rom 5:10)

Question 9

Define: Ransom

Answer 9

The word redemption signifies a releasing or liberation from captivity, slavery or death by means of payment of a price called ransom. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is seen as the price which Jesus paid for our deliverance. (Heb
9:12)

Question 10

What do we believe? Election or Selection and explain

Answer 10

Election is that sovereign act of God in grace whereby He chose in Christ Jesus for salvation all those whom He foreknew would accept Him. However, we need to take note that God foreknew all things because He arbitrarily determined to bring them to pass.
Foreknowledge is not foreordaining. There is a difference between what God determines to pass and what He merely permits to happen. He did not determine who would be there; He simply saw them in Christ when He chose them.

Question 11

5 negative facts if Jesus had not ressurected from the dead

Answer 11

a. Our preaching is in vain (v. 14)

b. Our faith is in vain (v. 14)

c. The apostles were false witnesses (v. 15)

d. The believers are still in their sin (v. 17)

e. Those who have died are perished (v. 18-19)

Question 11

How about infants? Are they saved?

Answer 11

Children are included in the atonement ‘for Christ died for all. However, there is a certain point called the age of accountability where children will be punished for their sins; thus, when a child reaches this point the saving grace of Jesus Christ is available for him.
*** Some say the age of accountability is as early as 3 or 4 years, others say 5 or 6 years.

Question 12

What does Jesus’ ascencion mean?

Answer 12

Jesus’ ascension refers to the event when He departed from this earth in His resurrection body and was visibly taken into heaven. (Acts 1:9, Mk 16:19, Lk 24:50-51)
-Since the ascension, He is the Christ of spiritual experience who lives in heaven and touches men through the Holy Spirit.

Question 13

What is Jesus’ exaltation

Answer 13

Exaltation refers to the Father giving the risen and ascended Son the place of honor and power at His right hand. (Acts 2:33, 5:31, 1 Pet 3:22)

Question 14

Define: Regeneration

Answer 14

Is something that happens in the believer’s heart. It is the quickening of man’s spirit that used to be dead because of sin.

Question 15

Define: Justification

Answer 15

Concerns a person’s standing before God. It is being declared righteous in the eyes of God, as if he had never sinned. It is more than forgiveness and the removal of guilt and condemnation; it is putting to one’s account the righteousness of Christ. When God justifies the sinner, all evidence of his sin and guilt is completely wiped out. Thus, when God sees believers, He does not see them as forgiven sinners but rather, as those who have never sinned.

Question 16

Define: New Brith

Answer 16

is literally the impartation of the divine nature to the heart and life of a sinner which makes him a new creation.

Question 17

Define: Adoption

Answer 17

means placing as a son. The believer after becoming a child of God is immediately advanced to maturity of position, being constituted as an adult son. It 1 occurs simultaneous with regeneration and justification. The full realization and enjoyment of adoption will be at the time of the resurrection of our bodies when the
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Lord returns for His own.

Question 18

Define: Sanctification

Answer 18

primarily a dedication, consecration or setting apart for some specific and holy use. Every Christian is a chosen vessel set apart for a very special purpose for the glory of God.

Question 19

Define: Assurance

Answer 19

It is important that when one believes, he has a real and abiding assurance of having received eternal life. God intended that man will have fellowship with God and the foundation of this fellowship is the believer’s assurance of his salvation. If there is no assurance, eternal life becomes merely a chance.

Question 20

Define: Security of the Believer

Question 21

Propitiation

Answer 21

Appeasement, the turning away of wrath by sacrifice. The wrath of God Aheb gi 7 was repeatedly mentioned in the old testament; thus, the death of Christ is seen as a
means of removing God’s wrath. The wonderful thing in God’s plan of salvation was that He Himself provided the means to remove His wrath. Jesus became our high priest in order to make propitiation for the sins of mankind.

Question 22

What kind of resurrection was Jesus’ ressurection? Bodily or Spirit?

Answer 22

It was a bodily resurrection because spirits do not die (Jn 2:19-22). However, His resurrected body was different in that it was a spiritual body, not bound by physical limitations, and it was unique in that it was not recognizable at times. (Jn 20:19,26, Luke
24:13-16)

Question 23

Results of Jesus’ Exaltation

Answer 23

a. He is now our High Priest (Heb 9:24) - appears before God in our behalf

b. We have assurance of access to God (Heb 4:14-16)

C. Christ is the Head of the Church (Eph 1:22) -

d. The Holy Spirit was poured on all believers (Jn 16:7)

e. Jesus gave gifts to men and to the church (1 Cor 12:8-10, Eph 4:8-13)

f. He is preparing a place for the believers (Jn 14:2

g. He pledged His return (John 14:3)