Theology III Brian Payne Boyce College
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What is the classical passage employed in defense of an \"ordo salutis?\" (order of Salvation)
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Romans 8:28-30
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Define Effectual Calling according to the Baptist Catechism
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Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ and renewing our wills, he does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel.
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Give one Bible reference that defends effectual calling
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Romans 8:29
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What is the doctrine that refers to a secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life to us\"?
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Regeneration
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Give 5 of \"regeneration's\" effects
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- Sinner is re-created in and to newness of life - Is enabled to \"see\" and to \"enter\" the kingdom of God by faith - Is enabled to believe in Jesus - Is enabled to believe that Jesus is the Christ - Is enabled to love others - Is enabled to do righteousness and to shun the life of sin
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List 3 renewal metaphors that are synonymous with the doctrine of regeneration and a text in support:
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- Regeneration is an instantaneous change (Acts 16:14; Ephesians 2:5) - Regeneration is a supernatural change (Ezekiel 36:26-27) - Regeneration is a radical change (2 Corinthians 5:17)
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What is the doctrine that refers to \"The conscious act of a regenerate person in which he/she turns to God in repentance and faith\"
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Conversion
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Define \"repentance unto life\" according to the Baptist Catechism
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Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of and endeavor after new obedience.
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What are the three aspects of saving faith?
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Knowledge, assent, and trust
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Define justification according to the Baptist Catechism
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Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth to us as righteousness in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
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The privileges of adoption can be summed up on one word. What is it?
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Inheritance
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What is the doctrine that refers to the work of God's free grace (2 Thess. 2:13), whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God (Eph. 4:23, 24), and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness (Rom. 6:4,6; 8:1)?
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Sanctification
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Give two texts that support the doctrine of perseverance:
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1 Corinthians 15:1 and Colossians 1:21
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What is the doctrine that refers especially to the time when, at the Parousia, those who died in Christ and the living believers will be given resurrection bodies—a final and full \"redemption of our bodies\" (Rom 8:23), preparatory for and suited to the final state of Christian believers?
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Glorification
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Regarding the doctrine of sanctification, how many tenses are represented in Scripture?
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Three (Past, Present, and Future)
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What are the four traditional attributes of the Church?
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One, Holy, Universal, Apostolic
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What are the two historical marks of the church?
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The right preaching of the Word of God and the right administration of baptism and the Lord's Supper
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According to the Scriptures, baptism is exclusively meant for those converted to Jesus Christ. At least five reasons support this statement.
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- Those who evangelize are only commanded to baptize those who repent and believe - The only clear recorded subjects of baptism in the book of Acts are individuals who have repented and believed - Paul's letters demonstrate the twin assumptions that those who have believed have been baptized and that those who have been baptized believe - Peter associates baptism with salvation, not as a cause of salvation but as a roughly contemporaneous occurrence - The ordinances are presented in the NT as clearly eschatological in nature
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What figure's understanding in church history, of a \"spiritual\" eschatology, took root in Christian eschatology & eventually supplanted the more \"earthly\" eschatologies of the millennialists
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Origen
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There are 7 essential OT anticipatory, eschatological hopes.
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1. Expectation of the coming Redeemer- Messiah 2. The coming Kingdom of God: prophets looked forward to a day when God's rule would be fully experienced, not just by Israel, but by the whole world 3. The new covenant 4. The restoration of Israel 5. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit 6. The approach of the Day of the Lord which would mean judgment upon the unbelieving nations and deliverance for the people of God 7. The creation of a new heavens and a new earth
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There are basically 7 NT descriptions of the manner of Christ's 2nd coming.
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1.He will return personally and bodily. 2. Christ's coming will be universally visible 3. Will reveal his power and great glory 4. Will be as unexpected as a thief who breaks into one's home at night 5. Will be to execute justice and judgment 6. Will be the completion of what he began in his first coming 7. Will bring about the resurrection of all people
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4 principles are involved in plural-elder congregationalism. Give these with brief explanation/defense
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The puritan principle → we are given a model for church government in the Scriptures in which we are neither to add nor subtract. The Puritan view is that God does regulate the government of his church. The independent principle → there is both a negative and positive aspect to this principle. Negatively, there's no ecclesiastical authority in the visible church on earth with jurisdiction over the local church. Positively, each local church has been given sufficient authority to order its worship and discipline. The democratic principle → right of the church to decided on basis of the Bible what the will of the king is. The plural-elder principle → know of no church in the NT that had only a single elder, many had plurality of elders: Jerusalem, Antioch, Lystra, Ephesus, Crete, etc.,
