THEO 350 Final

The Lutheran View of Sanctification

Sanctification as a declaration by God (legal benefit produce new self-image)

Reformed View of Sanctification

Sanctification as holiness in Christ in personal conduct (Holy Spirit enables obedience)

Wesleyan View of Sanctification

Sanctification as perfect love (Holy Spirit increases love)

Keswick View of Sanctification

Sanctification as resting-faith in Christ’s sufficiency

Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints

5 Points of Calvinism

Total Depravity, Conditional Election, Atonement is for everyone, Resistible Grace, Apostasy may be possible

5 Points of Arminianism

Moses Amyraut (Called Amrauldianism) he rejects limited atonement

Who taught 4 point Calvinism?

God’s Will Antecedent

Desire/wish (a preference under better circumstances)

God’s Will Consequent

Choice (my decision in the current circumstances)

Arminian Foreknowledge

God’s “foresight” of our response [God is passive here]

Calvinistic Foreknowledge

“Foreordination” [God is active here]

Arminian Free Will

We have the ability to accept or reject Christ. God’s choice is based on our choice

Calvinistic Free Will

We freely decide to reject until God graciously changes our mind (by convincing us?)

Grace

“God’s gift”

Efficacious

God’s life-changing work (always successful)

Judicious/Legal

God’s acceptance of sinful man

Irresistible grace

The elect cannot ultimately reject saving grace

Electing grace

Grace which singles out the predestined before they are born

Prevenient grace

Given to all sinners so that their will may be freed from sin’s bondage. Now all have the ability to accept Christ

Authoritative Sovereignty

God has a right to command as a king but grants free will to all (Arminianism)

Absolute Sovereignty

God is actually in control of all that happens- even our decisions (Calvinism)

Sublapsarianism

Election comes long after the fall

Infralapsarianism

Election happens immediately after the fall

Supralapsarianism

Election happens before the fall

True

Most Calvinists believe both Satan and Adam had free will in a libertarian sense. Their sin corrupted the will of their posterity (t/f)

False

The Bible says, what God “foresees” as a basis for His predestination of the elect (t/f)

False

Only Calvinists believe God elects people unto salvation before they are born (t/f)

True

Both Calvinists and Arminians believe the Bible and that salvation is by grace through faith (t/f)

True

Both Arminius and Wesley believed that God is fair enough to allow unevangelized people to find grace by responding correctly to natural revelation (Wesley) or personal revelation (Arminius) (t/f)

Prevenient grace

Gives man the power of free will

Sufficient grace

Help man should use to obey God

Cooperating grace

Help God gives man as man chooses to obey

Efficacious grace

Help God gives man to obey salvific commands (and the mercy which recognizes that work as salvific)

Persevering grace

Help God gives us to continue in faith and obedience till death

Middle Knowledge

God recognizes what each person would do in any potential world God could create

Semi-Pelagians do not follow congruism; Semi-Augustinians follow congruism

Semi-Pelagians and Semi-Augustinians on “Congruism”

Traditional view of God

God knows all future human decisions

Open view of God

God does not know the future decisions of free moral agents

Presentism

Affirms God’s omniscience of the present, but denies His exhaustive foreknowledge

Fatalism

Claims the future is as fixed as the past

Determinism

Claims the future is already predetermined

Unlimited compatibilism

Humans always make decisions according to God’s plan. Aka- “theological determinism”

Incompatibilism

To the extent that God grants free choice, He gives up control over our decisions

Omnipotent + omniscient = sovereign

If God is omniscient of “what it takes to convince men,” and if God is omnipotent to bring into my life “what it takes to convince me,” then God is sovereign over which decision I will be convince to make

Assurance

Our confidence of our current salvation

Security

The permanent quality of our salvation

Eternal security

Once saved, always saved

Optional perseverance

True believers may stop believing and still remain saved

Guaranteed perseverance

All true believers will persevere in their faith to the end

Required perseverance

True believers may stop believing and forfeit their salvation

Thomas Aquinas

“Beginning grace is given” to some “to whom perseverance in grace is not”

Martin Luther

Paradoxically in both unconditional election and in conditional security

John Calvin

Accepted guaranteed perseverance and believed assurance is possible, but warned against a misguided assurance

James Arminius

Never taught that one can lose salvation. Yet did not affirm “guaranteed perseverance” because of warnings. Originally, Arminians followed this ambivalence

John Wesley

True believers can forsake their faith and become lost again. Concluded that “free will” means we can freely become a Christian or freely stop being a Christian

Westminster

Supported guaranteed perseverance, “shall certainly persevere therein to the end”

New Hampshire

“True Christians… endure”

SBC 1925

“All believers endure to the end”

Dispensationalists

Guaranteed perseverance, John MacArthur; optional perseverance, Zane Hodges; required perseverance, some free will Baptists, Arminian/Wesleyans, etc.

Restrictivist (Exclusivist) View

Christ is both epistemologically and ontologically necessary. Human evangelism is necessary

Universal opportunity view

Christ is only ontologically necessary. Human evangelism is not necessary.

Postmortem evangelism view

Christ is both epistemologically and ontologically necessary. Human evangelism is not necessary

Egalitarianism

Men and women have identical roles and responsibilities in the church

Complementarianism

Leadership roles (especially authoritative teaching and ruling) are for men

Things women may do in church

Disciple, sing, pray, prophecy, teach younger women, be a deaconess

No, only used in the early church

Female form of “deacon” in NT?

Service not authority

What does “deacon” imply?

Creationism

The “young earth” view- a literal reading

The Day-Age view

The creative “days” were extremely long periods of time

The Gap theory

God used six days to repair the demonic chaos that arose between 1:1 and 2

The “myth” (literary) theory

To express a monotheistic creation from chaos