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CDOC 2
Question | Answer |
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TULIP-T | Total Depravity, we are unable to save ourselves |
TULIP-U | Unconditional Election: Based soley on his will |
TULIP-L | Limited Atonement: Jesus only died for the elect |
TULIP-I | Irresistable Grace: Inevitably respond |
TULIP-P | Perseverance of the Saints: You can't be un-saved |
Remonstrance points- Free Will/Human Ability | By grace we are able to achieve salvation |
Remonstrance Points- Conditional Election | Election is based on forseen faith |
Remonstrance Points- General Atonement | Christ's death obtained salvation for everyone |
Remonstrance Points- Resistable Grace | We can refuse grace |
Remonstrance Points- Falling From Grace | Grace preserves the faithful, but you can lose it |
Order of Salvation | 1. Election 2. Calling 3. Regeneration 4. Conversion 5. Justification 6. Adoption 7. Sanctification 8. Glorification |
Romans 3:23 | For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God |
Ephesians 1:3-6 | Believers were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world |
What is the Gospel call? | Offer of salvation in Jesus Christ |
3 Aspects of Gospel Call | 1. An explanation 2. Invitation 3. Promise of Forgiveness and Eternal Life |
What is the Effective Call? | The act of God in which he summons people to himself |
What is Regeneration? | It is the calling from dark to light; happens before faith |
What is Conversion? | Our willing response to the Gospel |
What is Repentance? | Turning from sin |
3 Aspects of Repentance | 1. Intellectual 2. Emotional 3. Volitional |
What is Saving Faith? | Turning away from sin and turning to God |
3 Elements of Saving Faith | 1. Knowledge of the Truth 2. Assent to the Truth 3. Trust or Commitment |
Romans 6:23 | The wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is salvation in Jesus |
5 Aspects of Union with Christ | 1. Spiritual 2. Relational 3. Mystical 4. Personal 5. Posistional |
Justification | Rooted in the OT; Received by faith alone; Needed because of sin; Established y Christ's death; Real because of God's character |
Catholic View of Justification | Justification is the ability to please God, meaning after we are justified we can earn our salvation |
3 Imputations | 1. All our infractions are charged to Christ's account 2. Christ's righteousness is accredited to us 3. Adam's sin once was accredited to us |
What is Adoption? | We are received as God's children |
Romans 3:21-28 | This is the central passage on the doctrine of Justification |
Genesis 15:6 | Abraham believed GOd and He credited it to him as righteousness |
What is Sanctification? | Work of the Holy Spirit that we participate in |
3 Aspects of Sanctification | 1. Positional 2. Progressive 3. Final |
How do we grow in Sanctification? | Rpentance, faith, and the spiritual disciplines |
What is the Perseverance of the Saints? | A promise |
Who is involved in Perseverance? | God and us |
What is Eternal Security? | We can't lose our salvation |
Wesleyan Arminian Viwe of Perseverance | You can lose your salvation |
What is Assurance of Salvation? | Subjective feeling that can come and go |
What is Glorification? | When we completed and made wholly perfect |
Ephesians 2:8-10 | We are saved through faith, not as a result of works. But we are created in Christ Jesus for good works |
Galatians 5:16 | Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh |
Romans 8:35-39 | Nothing can separate believers from God's love in Christ |
John 10:27-29 | No one can snatch the believer from the Father's hand |
3 Arguments for Spirit's Personality | 1. Elements of personality 2. Distinct Identity 3. Activities indicate Personhood |
5 Arguments for Spirit's Deity | 1. He is included in the Trinity 2. Closely related to the Father individually 3. Closely related to the Son individually 4. Performs divine works 5. Equated with God |
At What Council Was the Deity of the Spirit Fully Expressed? | The Council of Nicea |
The Spirit's Work in the Life of Christ | The agent in conception; active in his ministry; active in crucifixion and resurection; helped in the miracles |
Acts 5:3-5 | The Holy Spirit is referred to as God |
Two Works the Spirit Does in Believers Before Conversion | 1. Effectual Call 2. Regeneration |
The Sealing Work of the Spirit | Future guarantee that begins at baptism of the spirit; signifies ownership, security, and purity. |
1 Corinthians 12:13 | By Spirit Baptism we are all baptized into the unified body of Christ |
What are Angels? | Spiritual beings sent as messengers from God |
What is Satan's destiny? | To be thrown into hell |
How do demons affect us? | They can possess most people, but not Christians, because we have the Holy of Spirit in us. |
Greek word for church and use | kuriakon, a place of meeting or the people who meet |
What does Ekklesia mean? | local assembly or wider set of people |
What is the Universal Church? | The greater body of believers that transcends time and space |
What is the Local Church? | A distinct community of believers at a specific location, all of which may not be truly saved |
What are metaphors? | Word pictures that correspsond to and illustrate truth |
Metaphors for the Church: Branches of a Vine | Jesus is the true vine, life-giving connection to Christ, fruitfulness only comes from this connection |
Metaphors for the Church: Flock of Sheep | Chirst is the Good Shepherd: owns, loves, seeks |
Metaphors for the Church: Priesthood | Catholics and Orthodox believe in continued formal office; Protestants believe every believer offers living sacrifices |
Metaphors for the Church: Temple/Building of God | Believers are temple for the Holy Spirit, Christ as the cornerstone and foundation, believers as the living stones |
Metaphors for the Church: Bride of Christ | The church is Christ's bride |
Metaphors for the Church: Body of Christ | Christ is the head and the believers are the parts of the body |
Views of the Origin of the Church | 1. Started with Adam, 2. Started with Abraham, 3. Started with the disciples, 4. Started at Pentecost, 5. Started with Paul's conversion |
History of Dispensationalism | Formalized by Darby, popularized by Scofield, and progressified in the 1980s |
Essential element of Dispensationalism | Distinction between Israel and the Church |
Principles of Dispensationalism | 1. Literal Hermeneutic 2. Opposite to Covenant Theology 3. History divided into different dispensations |
What is Covenant Theology? | One covenant of grace; anything addressed to Israel is now addressed to the church |
2 Key Differences Between Dispensational Theology: Nature of the Kingdom | C: God's plan for Israel is on pause. P: The church is a sneak peak at the future millenial kingdom |
2 Key Differences Between Dispensational Theology: Relationship between dispensations | C: Each dispensation is basically unique P: Each dispensation emerges from the previous as the plan unfolds |
6 Elements of the Mission of the Church | Evangelism Baptism Teaching Fellowship Communion Prayer/Worship |
Acts 2:1-13 | The church was formed by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost |
Acts 2:42-47 | A charter verse on the ministries of the church |
Romans 6:3-4 | Describes the meaning of Christian baptism |
1 Corinthians 1:23-34 | Describes the origins and belebration of the Lord's Supper |
Views on Church Government: Episcopal | Led by Bishops, priests, and deacons, only bishops have the right to ordain other authorities |
Views on Church Government: Presbyterian | Authority is placed in local pastors elected by the people, "the session" part of the Prebytery, part of the Synod, part of the General Assembly |
Views on Church Government: Congregational | Local congregation is autonomous, may cooperate with other churches voluntarily, democracy |
Major Church Offices: Elder/Overseer | Mature wise leader; cares, teaches, leads, protects |
Major Church Offices: Deacon | Special servants appointed to take care of necessary affairs to free up the time of the Elders/Overseers |
What is Complementarism and Egalitarianism? | C say governing and teaching are male only, E say all positions are open to women |
Ordinance vs. Sacrament | Sacrament usually implies the conferral of grace through the rite |
3 Views on Baptism | Catholic: means of saving grace; Reformed: sign and seal; Symbolic: public testimony |
3 Biblical Themes of Baptism | Marks the beginning of the Christian life, Marks our union with Christ, Signifies cleansing from sin |
4 Views on Communion | Transubstantiation (bread=body) Consubstantiation (bread contains body) Spiritual Presence (spiritually contains body) Symbolic (bread memorializes body) |
1 Timothy 3 | Qualifications for Elders and Deacons |
3 Kinds of Death and commonality | Physical, spiritual, and eternal; separation |
What is the Intermediate State? | The state of our soul between now and the rapture/great white throne |
Revelation 19-22 | Describes the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the Return of Christ, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Great White Throne, and the Eternal State |
What are the two phases of the Second Coming? | The Rapture and the Return |
3 Views on the Timing of the Rapture | Pre, mid, and post tribulational |
Arguments for Pretribulationalism | It's for Israel and the nations, not for the church |
What is the Great Tirbulation? | Outpouring of God's wrath |
What is the Millennium? | Christ's 1000 year reign on earth |
What are the four views on the Millennium? | Amillennial, Postmillennial, Historic/Covenant Millennial, Dispensational Millennial |
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 | The Lord will descend, the dead in Christ shall rise, and living Christians will meet them in the air. |
Daniel 9 | Describes the 70th week of Daniel and predicts the date of Messiah's death |
What are the different Resurrections? | Christ's, Saved, and Unsaved |
Three Phases of Judgment | Believers at Rapture, Tribulation Saints, and the Hell-bound |
Who will be judged at the second coming? | Those who survived Tribulation (involves Israel + the nations) |
Who will be judged at the end of the Millennium? | Devil and all people |
What is the Eternal State? | The two eternal destinies of heaven and hell |
1 Corinthians 3:10-15 and 2 Corinthians 5:10 | Describes the Bema Seat Judgment and rewards or loss of rewards for believers |