FBI Semester 4 Theology

Soteriology

What is the title of the Doctrine of Salvation? (fancy name for Doctrine of Salvation)

Because of the nature of God:
God is the Creator of Man.
God is the Lawgiver of Man.
God is the Judge of Man.
Because of the nature 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.

Know why man must be saved.

Salvation is possible because God loves all men and because God desires all men.

Know why salvation is possible.

Man is hopelessly lost in sin.
Every man is a sinner by birth.
Every man is a sinner by choice.
No man can live up to the holy and perfect standard of God's righteousness.
Our entire nature is corrupt.
Our corrupt nature corrupts any act of righteousness, rendering us unable to be righteous.
Our hearts are desperately wicked and deceitful.
Even if you thought you were righteous enough to save yourself, that would be the gross sin of pride.
Attempting to be saved by any other means than Christ is to be guilty of rejecting Christ.
God is righteous and must punish all sin.

Be familiar with the Problem of Salvation.

Plan One: A Home in Heaven for eternity could be earned by good works of perfect and sinless righteousness. However this was God's plan for the angels and not for Man.
Plan Two: A Home in Heaven for eternity could be given freely without good works based upon God's perfect and sinless righteousness. This is the only way for Man to be saved because we are sinful and could not possibly earn a Home in Heaven.

Be familiar with the only two possible paths of salvation and why only one was possible for man.

God's plan of salvation is that God will grant His own righteousness to sinful man. He will grant this righteousness apart from obedience to the law or commandments of God. He will grant this righteousness by faith and apart from merit. it is a free gift that is granted to the unworthy. God will grant this righteousness through the payment of another, which is through His Son. God will grant this righteousness through the righteous satisfaction of justice and will be granted through the blood of Christ.

Be familiar with God's righteous and merciful plan.

From the same word as holiness, separation, and saint (meaning "separated one".

What three words come from the same word as Sanctification?

Preparational Sanctification: this occurs prior to salvation to set us apart to the propagating and convicting work of the Holy Spirit.
Positional Sanctification: this occurs at the moment of salvation to set up apart from sin's penalty.
Practical Sanctification: this occurs throughout life to set us apart from sin's power.
Permanent Sanctification: this occurs at the rapture to set us apart from sin's presence.

What are the four types of Sanctification?

Justification occurs instantly at the moment of salvation changing our standing before God; while Practical Sanctification occurs gradually throughout the life of the believer changing our condition here.
Justification removes the penalty of sin; while Practical Sanctification removes the power of sin.
Justification removes the guilt of sin; while Practical Sanctification removes the growth of sin.
Justification declares us righteous; while Practical Sanctification makes us righteous.

What is the difference between Justification and Practical Sanctification?

Repentance is more than moral reformation.
Repentance is more than mere regret.
Repentance is more than penance.
Repentance is not the mere presence of weeping, emotion, or tears.

Be familiar with the counterfeits of repentance.

Salvation

What is the requirement of repentance?

Salvation had to be by faith for this is the only way it could be by grace and grace is the only way sinful man could be saved.

What is the necessity of saving faith?

The New Birth of Regeneration changes us and impart unto us the holy nature of our Father as a child of God.
Adoption does not change our nature, but rather our inheritance as it grants to us our position and legal standing as sons of God.

Be familiar with the distinction of Adoption.

In New Testament times, they had a custom called liberalia, a ceremony in which they adopted their own sons.
Everyone was recognized as children but only those who went through liberalia were considered sons.
Children had absolutely no legal rights and the slaves had more authority than the children. Only sons had legal rights and was guaranteed an inheritance.
Children could be disinherited but if they were sons (adopted into sonship) they could not be disinherited.

Be familiar with the First Century Illustration of Adoption.

Lack of faith.
Unconfessed sin.
Selfish prayers for human lusts.
Hypocrisy.
Failure to hear or obey the Word of God.
Failure to give to God or others.
Pride.
Failure to properly love and honor our mate.
Demonic interference.
Bitterness or unforgiveness.

What are the Roadblocks to answered prayer?

Praying in faith.
Praying according to the will of God.
Praying in Jesus' Name.
Praying in Humility.
Praying with fasting.
Praying with boldness, fervency, persistence, sincerity and specificity.
Praying in Unity.

What are the keys to successful prayer?

"Once Saved, Always Saved" only applies to those that are truly saved. The Scripture is clear that not all who claim salvation posses salvation.
"What if someone says he is saved and then becomes a complete apostate, totally and permanently abandoning the faith and turning wholly to sin?", its not that he still is saved or that he lost his salvation, but rather that he never possessed it.
True children of God may backslide and become "carnal and walk as lost men" but when they do they will be convicted, chastened, and even called home, but they are still the children of God.
The distinction between the false professors and backslidden believers can often only be judged by God. However, it may sometimes be discerned by their fruit, their heresies, their hatred, their abandonment of the faith, their total return to their sin, or their lack of chastening for sin.

Be familiar with the Introductory notes concerning Preservation and Security.

Preservation is not perseverance (Perseverance is the afct of Man in remaining faithful to God, while preservation is entirely the act of God in keeping us saved.)
Genuine believers will not finally and fully apostatize from the faith but they may sin so as to be worthy of chastening even to the point of physical death.
Preservation is not a guarantee that all who profess Christ are genuinely saved, but only that those who possess Christ will be preserved.
Preservation is not an excuse or license to sin.

Be familiar with what Preservation is NOT.

Salvation is wholly and solely by grace through faith from start to finish. If works have anything to do with attaining or maintaining salvation, then grace has nothing to do with salvation.
Any mixture of works to earn or keep salvation means Christ died for nothing!
Christ does not say, "I once knew you, but no longer do!"
Since God's standard is perfection, if we had to be good enough to keep our salvation, it would only take one sin for us to be lost. If this were true, no one would ever make it to heaven, because all of us sin.
So called believers who completely and finally abandon the faith only manifest that they were never saved.

Be familiar with the general teachings of Security.

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True/false: In Matthew 7:15-23, the teachers were trusting in their works.

false; they were wolves in sheep's clothing (never trusted Christ as Savior)

true/false: In Matthew 7:15-23, the people turned away from Christ were true sheep not wolves.

false; their part is removed, not name, (meaning God's provision for their salvation is removed at their final rejection of God.)

true/false: In Revelation 22:18-19, a person's name is removed.

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true/false: In 1 Corinthians 15:1-2, believing in vain is believing in Christ but not the Resurrection.

false; it refers to earthly chastisement

true/false: The English word damnation may refer to losing your salvation in some passages.

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true/false: In Galatians5:4, falling from grace refers to returning to a trust in works to keep your salvation (it is not sinning so as to lose your salvation.

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True/false: those who escaped immorality through the knowledge of Christ in 2 Peter 2:20-22, but whose latter end was worse than their beginning were dogs and hogs (not sheep) who returned to their sin because they had reformation without regeneration (their inner nature was never changed)

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true/false: In Matthew 24:13 "He that shall endure to the end shall be saved" refers to enduring without taking the mark during the Tribulation.

false; it refers to the removing of nation from national blessing

true/false: In Romans 11:21-22 the breaking off of branches refers to removing people from the position of personal blessing.

false; it refers to physical death

true/false: passages such as Ezekiel 3:20; 33:12, which warn of death for the righteous who sin speaks of spiritual death and the losing of salvation.

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true/false: the book of life may refer to physical death such as in Exodus 32:32-33

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true/false: In Romans 3:25 "the sins that are past: are sins before the Cross, not before an individual's conversion.

We are kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5).
We are kept in the hand of the Father & Son.
We are sealed by the Spirit.
Christ never knew the lost.
Jesus promises the saved will never perish, be condemned, cast out, or lost.
Nothing can separate us from Christ.
Sinning saints are chastened not disowned, those who totally and finally turn from Christ show they were never saved (1 John 2:19)

Why are we eternally secure?

Total Depravity.
Unconditional election.
Limited Atonement.
Irresistible Grace.
Perseverance of the Saints.

What are the five points of Calvinism?

Total Ability.
Conditional Election.
Unlimited Atonement.
Resistible Grace.
Conditional Preservation.

What are the 5 point of Arminianism?

Total depravity with Enabling Grace and Free Will.
Conditional Election.
Unlimited Atonement.
Resistible Grace.
Unconditional Preservation.

What are the 5 points of Biblicism?

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true/false: Christ did die for all men (Heb. 2:9), bought even the lost (2 Peter 2:1), draws all men (John 12:32), offers the free gift of salvation to all, and shares the pre-salvation grace of God that brings salvation with all (Titus 2:11).

false/ they are based on foreknowledge

true/false: Election and predestination are based on forechoice.

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true/false: The only two passages on predestination teach that believers are predestined for glorification into the image of Christ so that we may bring glory to God as trophies of His grace.

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true/false: Election and foreordination no more rob man of free will than they rob Christ or the angels of free will.

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true/false: Many misunderstandings concerning election arise from not knowing that the context of Romans 9-11 is the national election of the nation of Israel, rather than the individual election to salvation.