Theology—Salvation Flashcards
What is the title of the study of Salvation?
Soteriology
What are the two reasons why men must be saved?
Because of the Nature of God—Holiness
Because of the Responsibility of Man—Sinfulness
What is the 3 facts of the Nature of God?
- God is the Creator of man
- God is the Lawgiver of man
- God is the Judge of man
What is the 6 facts of the Responsibility of Man?
- Man is created in the image of God to know, love, obey, fellowship with and glorify God
- Man is free. God created man as a free moral agent with the right of genuine free will and choice
- Man has chosen
- Man is a sinner
- Man is separated from God
- Man is condemned
What are the 2 ways why salvation is possible?
- Salvation is possible because God loves all men
- Salvation is possible because God desires all men to be saved
The act of Christ whereby He took upon Himself the guilt and paid the penalty of our sin and then bestowed His righteousness upon us.
Substitution
The bringing of mercy by the covering and thereby cleansing of the guilt of our sin by the shed and applied blood of Christ, appeasing the just wrath of God on sin and rendering the believing sinner pardoned, purged, and forgiven of sin and reconciled to God
(Blood) Atonement
The satisfaction of God’s righteousness demand for justice, for the payment of the due penalty of our sins, by the death of Christ
Propitiation
God buying us back from our slavery to sin and setting us free from its control and consequences
Redemption
General: An accounting term which speaks of the adding or subtracting of something to someone’s account. This bookkeeping term is also translated “counted” or “reckoned”
Theological: The act of God whereby He places our guilt upon the account of Jesus Christ and places Christ’s righteousness upon our account
Imputation
The undeserved love or unmerited favor of God
Saving Grace
The grace enabled act of man in salvation involving a voluntary change of mind and heart including a turning from sin to Christ
Conversion (We are saved through conversion inwardly)
The response of the believing sinner’s heart when convicted by the Spirit of his guilt and lostness before God, causing him to have a grace enabled, voluntary and sincere change of mind and heart leading to a turn from his sin to Christ
Repentance
The response of the believing sinner’s heart when confronted by the Spirit with the person of Christ and the truth of the Gospel, causing him to have a voluntary and sincere change of mind and heart leading to a turn from his sin of unbelief to faith in Christ
Faith
The act of God whereby He replaces the state of enmity between God and man with a relationship of friendship through the peace purchased by the death of Christ on the Cross, now placing man in a favorable position with God through the covering of the guilt of our sin with his blood. We are restored to the love relationship with God for which we were created
Reconciliation
The forgiveness, removal, cleansing, and putting away of our sins
Remission
To be declared righteous
(Theological: The judicial act of God whereby He legally declared the believing sinner to be innocent of all sin and as perfectly righteous as Christ)
Justification
How can a man be justified with God?
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Rom 5:1)
To be set apart
(Theological: The act of God whereby the believing sinner is set apart from sin [its penalty at salvation, its power in our lives, and its presence in eternity] and to God, Christ and righteousness)
Sanctification
What are the 3 words that Sanctification is from?
Holiness, separation, and saint (meaning “separated one”)
It is the act of God, whereby the Holy Spirit gives a spiritual new birth to the believing sinner, thereby imparting to them a new nature and a new heart and giving the spiritually dead new life
Regeneration