Things I get wrong

Question 1

Resurrection

Answer 1

Matt 28:1-20

Question 2

Ascension (promise to send HS)

Answer 2

Luke 24:50-51
Acts 1:9-11
(John 14:16)

Question 3

Sabellianism

Answer 3

modalism (Christ’s baptism Matt 3:16)

Question 4

Dynamic monarchianism

Answer 4

adoptionism (Jn 1:1)

Question 5

Verse that we will be resurrected

Answer 5

1 Cor 15:20-23

Question 6

Penal Substitution

Answer 6

The view that Christ in his death bore the just penalty of God for our sins as a substitute for us
• 1 Pet 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed”

Question 7

Redemption

Answer 7

Christ’s saving work viewed as an act of “buying back” sinners out of their bondage to sin and to Satan through the payment of a ransom

• Mark 10:45 “and give his life as a ransom for many”

Question 8

Reconciliation

Answer 8

To overcome our separation from God, we needed someone to provide reconciliation and thereby bring us back into fellowship with God.
• 2 Cor 5:18-19 God “through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself”

Question 9

Propitiation

Answer 9

To remove us from the wrath of God that we deserved, Christ died as a propitiation for our sins.
• 1 John 4:10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins”

Question 10

Sacrifice

Answer 10

To pay the penalty of death that we deserved because of our sins, Christ died as a sacrifice for us.
• Heb 9:26 “He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself”

Question 11

Assurance

Answer 11

The internal sense we may have based upon certain evidences in our lives that we are truly “born again” and will persevere as Christians until the end of our lives (perseverance)
Rom 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God

(1) Do I have trust in Christ for salvation? (Heb 3:14 “We share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end”)
(2) Evidence of regenerating work of HS in my life? (Gal 5:22)
(3) Long term pattern of growth? (2 Pet 1:8 “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing…”)

Question 12

Conversion

Answer 12

Our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation
• Acts 20:21 Paul testified “both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Question 13

Prevenient grace

Answer 13

prevenient grace is the grace God gives a sinner to enable him to exercise the faith on the basis of which he is regenerated.

Rom 8:30 “and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.”

Question 14

grace

Answer 14

God’s goodness toward those who deserve only punishment

Rom 3:24

Question 15

mercy

Answer 15

God’s goodness toward those in misery and distress.

Ps 103:8 “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love”

Question 16

Incommunicable

Answer 16

• Independence (aseity): God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy (“nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything” Acts 17:25)
• Unchangeableness (immutability): God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet he acts and feels emotions in response to different situations (Num 23:19)

Question 17

Compatibalism

Answer 17

God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them (preservation); (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do (concurrence); and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes (government) (Heb. 1:3; Eph. 1:11; Dan. 4:35).

Within God’s providence humans are still responsible and their actions make a difference (John 16:24).

Question 18

Open Theism

Answer 18

the view that God chose to create a world that included free agents, and thus a world where possibilities are real. The future is pre-settled, to whatever degree God wants to pre-settle it and to whatever degree the inevitable consequences of the choices of created agents have pre-settled it. But the future is also open to whatever degree agents are free to resolve possibilities into actualities by their own choices. (Ex 32 - and the Lord relented)

Question 19

Foreknowledge

Answer 19

A biblical term (πρόγνωσις) that literally means “to know in advance.” Some theologians view foreknowledge as referring to God’s selective choice of individuals or groups of people with whom to enter into a loving relationship. Foreknowledge understood in this sense is more than simply knowing events in advance of their happening (although this may be included) because the Scriptures seem to use the term in a more relational than chronological sense. Thus the foreknowledge of God involves God’s favorable disposition to certain people, even before they existed. (Acts 2:23 - this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God)

Question 20

Theodicy

Answer 20

• The study that focuses on why God allows good and evil in the world
• A response to the problem of evil in the world
• Attempts to logically, relevantly, and consistently defend God as omnipotent, all-loving, and just, despite the reality of evil

Question 21

Solutions to Theodicy

Answer 21

• Theonomy—God is law! Man is man and God is God, we shouldn’t question God. God is the law and don’t ask or question (Job 40; Rom. 9:14-16)
• Free will Theism—God gave man free will and when man chose to disobey evil come into being (Gen. 1-3)
• Soul-building—we are incomplete and our souls are being developed through suffering (Jas. 1:12-13; Rom. 5:3-5; 1 Pet. 1:6-9, 4:12-13, Irenaeus)
• Greater Good—God allows evil because it helps to achieve the greater good (Jesus, Job, Joseph —> Gen. 50:15-21)
• The Secret of God – Deut 29 secret things belong to God.

Question 22

Pantheism

Answer 22

God is the universe and the universe is God - there is only one reality - certain forms of Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Christian Science, and most New Age religions

Question 23

Illumination of the HS

Answer 23

The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in believers to interpret, understand, and obey the Scriptures

1 Cor. 2:12 - Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

Question 24

HS’s work in unbelievers

Answer 24

John 16:8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment

Question 25

HS’s work in believers

Answer 25

(1) the Holy Spirit empowers (Job 34:14 “[if God] should take back his spirit to himself… all flesh would perish together”)
(2) the Holy Spirit purifies (1 Cor 6:11)
(3) the Holy Spirit reveals (2 Pet 1:21)
(4) the Holy Spirit unifies (Phil 1:1-2)
* indwells 1 Cor 6:19

Question 26

dichotomy

Answer 26

John 12:27 “My soul is troubled”

John 13:21 “troubled in spirit”

Question 27

trichotomy

Answer 27

Heb 4:12

but this should be understood as God separating what is not thought to be separable

Question 28

traducianism

Answer 28

Body and soul are inherited from parents at conception
• Since we are made in God’s image, we are able to create like him
• Sometimes scripture speaks of descendants being in the loins of their ancestors (Levi, Heb 7:10)
• Explains how the sins of parents can be transferred to the children without God being responsible for making a sinful soul

Question 29

creationism

Answer 29

God creates a new soul for each person and sends it to that person’s body sometime between conception and birth
• Ps 139:13 “You knit me together”

Question 30

angels

Answer 30

Angels are created spiritual beings with moral judgment and high intelligence but without physical bodies (Neh. 9:6)

• ministering spirits (Heb 1:14)
• innumerable (Heb 12:22)
• do not marry (Mt 22:30)
• powerful (“angels… greater in might and power” 2 Pt 2:11)
• created before the 6th day (“In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them” Ex 20:11)
• praise the Lord (“Bless the LORD, O you his angels” Ps 103:20)

Question 31

demons

Answer 31

Demons are evil angels who sinned against God and who now continually work evil in the world (2 Peter 2:4). Satan is the personal name (Job 1:6) for the head of the demons (Jn 8:44)
- oppose and try to destroy every work of God (John 8:44)

Question 32

Can Christians be demon possessed?

Answer 32

• NT says people can “have a demon” or be influenced by a demon, but never that demons “possess” people (this implies they have no choice or will)
• Christians cannot be “demon possessed” (in the sense that they have no control) because Scripture guarantees that sin shall have no dominion over us since we have been raised with Christ (Rom. 6:14)
• But Christians can experience demonic influence (Luke 4:2, Jesus being tempted in the desert)

Question 33

humanity of Jesus

Answer 33

• Lk 2:52 Jesus grew and increased in wisdom

* Jn 12:27 my soul is troubled (human emotions)

Question 34

deity of Jesus

Answer 34

• John 5:23 “that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father”
• Matt 1:21 “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins”
• Heb 1:3 (exact imprint), Col 2:9

Question 35

impeccability

Answer 35

The belief that Jesus was unable to sin.
• God cannot be tempted (James 1:13), and therefore the hypostatic union must have prevented him from being able to sin.
• But his temptations were real because he did not rely on the strength of his divine nature to make it easier for him to face temptations, and his refusal to turn the stones into bread at the beginning of his ministry is a clear indication of this. (Lk 4)

Question 36

Chalcedonian definition 451

Answer 36

• against apollinarianism, nestorianism, and eutychianism

* Basically: two distinct natures in Christ that retain their own properties yet remain together in one person

Question 37

Monophysitism (Eutychianism)

Answer 37

human nature and divine nature combined to make a new third nature

Question 38

Jesus intercedes for us

Answer 38

Rom 8:34

Question 39

Calvin/Zwingli on Lord’s Supper

Answer 39

Calvin: spiritually present in a special way
Zwingli: symbolic view

Question 40

verses for millennium

Answer 40

• Rev 20:4
• 1 cor 5:23-25 “But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet”