Test 2 Flashcards
The work of God’s Spirit that gives new life to the one who believes.
Regeneration
Implications of Regeneration
- It is God’s work
- It gives the capacity to live for God
- It must be nourished
“The act of God that places the believer in His family as an adult” (Ryrie, 352)
Adoption
Implications of Adoption
- Adoption implies access
2. Adoption implies privilege
Liberation because of the payment of a ransom
Redemption
Implications of Redemption
- Salvation involves a payment
- God is the One who makes the payment, since it costs something greater than man could ever pay.
- Salvation means freedom-not freedom from all masters, but freedom from an evil master to a good One.
John Calvin called it “the main hinge on which religious turns.”
a legal declaration of righteousness
Justification
Implications of Justification
- God is the One who justifies
- All believers have equal standing before God
- God’s justice now requires our forgiveness
“A change of relationship from hostility to harmony and peace between two parties” (Ryrie, 336)
Reconciliation
Implications of reconciliation
- Before salvation, we were God’s enemies, hated by Him
- God took the initiative in reconciliation, demonstrating His love for us
- Salvation includes a cessation of conflict
The turning away of the wrath of God by an offering
Propitiation
Implications of Propitiation
- The division between God and man is caused not just by man’s sin, but by God’s anger over his sin.
- God is the One who provides for His wrath to be appeased.
Explain the acronym T.U.L.I.P
Total Depravity of Man Unconditional Election Limited Atonement Irresistible Grace Perseverance of the Saints
Explain Total Depravity
Sinfulness pervades all areas of life and human existence. Through the Fall of Man humanity is stained by sin in every aspect: heart, emotions will, mind, and body.
Explain Unconditional election
God chooses who will be saved. People are dead in their sins so they are unable to initiate a response to God.
Explain Limited Atonement
The purpose of God in the work of Christ was actually to save the elect
Explain Irresistible Grace
The belief that God brings his Elect to salvation through an internal call, which they are powerless to resist. The Holy Spirit supplies grace to them until they repent and are born again.
Explain Perseverance of the Saints
The view that the Elect cannot lose their salvation. None whom God has called will be lost, they are eternally secure.
Passages that are used for the limited atonement view
Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24, Romans 8:32, Galatians 2:20 (many more)
Passages that are used for the unlimited atonement view
2 Cor. 5:14-15, 1 Tim. 2:4-6, Heb. 2:9, 1 John 2:2,
Passages that are used for the universal atonement
John 1:29, John 4:42, John 6:33, 2 Cor. 5:19-20,
Unlimited Atonement
Christ died for the purpose of providing salvation for the entire world.
Theologians who support unlimited atonement
Luther, Bullinger, Coverdale, Calvin (at times)
Mediating Position
The divine intent of the atonement is universal in its provision and particular in its application.
“one in place of another”
vicarious (substitutionary)
“to purchase in the marketplace”
redemption
“making peace with God”
reconciliation
“the death of Christ fully satisfied all the righteous demands of God toward the sinner”
Propitiation
Redemption
Manward, Sinward, or Godward?
Sinward
Reconciliation
Manward, Sinward, or Godward?
Manward
Propitiation
Manward, Sinward, or Godward?
Godward
Forgiveness
Manward, Sinward, or Godward?
Manward
Justification
Manward, Sinward, or Godward?
Manward
Common Grace
If God is sovereign and man is depraved in his sinful state, then God must move to bring about reconciliation between man and God.
Efficacious Grace
Brings man to a realization of his sin and of the righteousness of Jesus Christ; it is EFFECTIVE in those to whom it is given. (sometimes called special grace)
The passage instructs the believers that they are the ones who are God’s eternal plan, in contrast to the common perception that only Israel was God’s chosen.
Ephesians 1:4
The passage begins an entire chapter devoted to a defense of the literal, historical resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
The passage identifies Christ as the One through whom we are able to approach a holy God.
1 Timothy 2:5-6
The passage follows the statement that “all have sinned”. Because God is a just God and cannot violate his innate standards of justice, he must declare sinners “guilty.”
Romans 3:24-26
This passage states explicitly the “exchange” made possible through Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Man’s attempts to conform himself to God’s law do not result in salvation, for God’s law requires absolutely conformity.
Galatians 2:16
In this passage Paul anticipates the objection that salvation by grace through faith will lead to moral slackness. Rather, salvation not only changed our legal standing before God, but it also removed sin as being our master.
Romans 6:12-14
In this passage Salvation has a practical manifestation in a person’s life that distinguishes him from the present world. It distinguishes a person from the kinds of pursuits that those apart from God are bound by and instead sets his focus on the future coming of Christ.
Titus 2:11-14
“to set apart”
sanctification
3 types of sanctification:
- Positional
- Experiential
- Ultimate
Which sanctification?
This is the believer’s position or standing before God, based on the death of Christ.
Positional
Which sanctification?
May fluctuate because it relates to his daily life and experience
Experiential
Which sanctification?
This aspect is future and anticipates the final transformation of the believer into the likeness of Christ
Ultimate
