God
God is a perfect being and cannot make a mistake.
True or False?
The Bible tells us that God and His ways are perfect (Ps. 18:30; Matt. 5:48). His law is perfect (Ps. 19:7), as is His will (Rom. 12:2), and only a perfect being can have a perfect will and can reveal a perfect law.
Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.
True or False?
Jesus was certainly a great teacher (Matt. 7:28–29; Luke 2:47; 4:32. He was, however, also truly God (Luke 22:70; John 1:1; 10:30; Col. 2:9).
The Holy Spirit is a force but is not a personal being.
True or False?
The Holy Spirit can be grieved and lied to (Isa. 63:10; Acts 5:3; Eph. 4:30). He can also speak (Heb. 3:7–11; 10:15–17). An impersonal force can do none of these things, so these personal characteristics indicate that the Holy Spirit must be a person.
The Bible is 100% accurate in all that it teaches.
True or False?
All Scripture—the Bible—is breathed out by God, and His words are truth (John 17:17; 2 Tim. 3:16–17). Every word of God proves true and the sum of His Word is truth (Ps. 119:160; Prov. 30:5), so the Bible cannot be anything less than fully accurate in all that it teaches.
God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
True or False?
God tells us that we “shall have no other gods” before Him, and He commands us to keep ourselves from idols, which include deities that are not the one true God revealed in the Bible (Ex. 20:3; 1 John 5:21).
There will be a time when Jesus Christ returns to judge all the people who have lived.
True or False?
According to the Bible, a day is coming on which God will judge the world by the One He has appointed—Christ Jesus, whom God raised from the dead (Acts 17:31; Rom. 2:16). Jesus Christ is coming again to judge the living and the dead (Dan. 7:13–14; Luke 21:27; 2 Thess. 2:8; 2 Tim. 4:1).
The Holy Spirit gives a spiritual new birth or new life before a person has faith in Jesus Christ.
True or False?
Jesus told Nicodemus that a person must be born again before he can see or enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3–5). Even the faith by which we enter the kingdom is a gift of God, who by His Spirit brings us to new spiritual life so that we can trust in Christ (Eph. 2:1–10). The Spirit, therefore, must give us new life before we can believe (Rom. 8:1–11).
Modern science disproves the Bible.
True or False?
od reveals Himself both in the Bible and in creation (Ps. 19; Rom. 1:18–20; 2 Tim. 3:16–17). Since God cannot contradict Himself (1 Cor. 14:33), what we learn from the Bible and what we learn from science—which studies the creation—will always be in perfect harmony when both the Bible and science are rightly studied and understood.
God created male and female.
True or False?
Genesis 1:27 teaches that when God created mankind in His image, He created both male and female in His image.
Jesus Christ’s death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin.
True or False?
Since the fall of Adam, all people (except Jesus Christ) have been born in sin and are under the wrath of God. Only Jesus can save us from this wrath, and He does so by His death on the cross, which is a propitiation that turns away God’s wrath (Isa. 53; Rom. 1:18–3:26; Heb. 2:17). Nothing but the atoning death of Jesus can take away our sin (Heb. 10:1–18).
The Holy Spirit can tell me to do something which is forbidden in the Bible.
True or False?
“God is not a God of confusion but of peace” (1 Cor. 14:33); thus, God cannot contradict Himself, for that would cause confusion. Since the Holy Spirit is God and since God ultimately authored the Bible (Acts 5:3–5; 2 Tim. 3:16–17), the Holy Spirit will never contradict Himself by telling us to do something that is forbidden in the Bible.
The Bible has the authority to tell us what we must do.
True or False?
All Scripture is God-breathed and sufficient to correct us and to equip us for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16–17). “Scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35), and since the Bible is God-breathed and is God’s very Word, to disobey the Bible is to disobey God (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4; Mark 7:1–13).
God counts a person as righteous not because of one’s works but only because of one’s faith in Jesus Christ.
True or False?
God does not save us “because of works done by us in righteousness” (Titus 3:4–7). We are justified—counted as righteous—by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone (Luke 18:9–14; Rom. 4; Gal. 3:1–9; Eph. 2:8–9).
Only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone as their Savior receive God’s free gift of eternal salvation.
True or False?
Jesus is the only way to the Father, and no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). Salvation is found in no one else besides Jesus Christ, as there is no other name under heaven whereby we can be saved (Acts 4:12). In order to be saved, we must believe in Jesus Christ (Matt. 16:24–25; Acts 16:25–34).
The Holy Spirit is co-equal with God?
True or False?
In this one God are three coeternal and coequal persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—each of whom possesses all of the attributes of God (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 1:1–4; 8:1–11; 2 Cor. 13:14). These three persons can be distinguished by personal properties—the Father is unbegotten, the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, and the Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son—but none of them is more divine or less divine than the others (Gen. 1:1–2; Ps. 110:1; John 1:1, 18; 5:18; 16:7, 13–15; Acts 2:33; 5:3–4). Historically, another way of saying this is to confess that God is one in essence and three in person.
The Bible is the highest authority for what I believe.
True or False?
The Bible is the only God-breathed special revelation that we possess (2 Tim. 3:16–17), so it has unique and final authority. Jesus, the Son of God, appealed to the Bible as the highest authority, so we dare not appeal to anything else other than the Bible as the highest authority for our faith and practice (Matt. 5:17–18; 15:1–9; Mark 14:43–49; John 10:35).
There is one true God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
True or False?
Although people worship many different gods, there is in fact only one true and living God—the God of Israel, who is revealed in the Bible (Jer. 10:10; John 17:3; 1 Tim. 2:5). In this one God are three coeternal and coequal persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—each of whom possesses all of the attributes of God (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 1:1–4; 8:1–11; 2 Cor. 13:14).
Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God.
True or False?
The Son of God—whom we now know as the God-man Jesus Christ—is God and was in the beginning with God (John 1:1). He is from all eternity and has always existed according to His divine nature (John 8:58; Col. 1:19). Thus, the Son of God, according to His divine nature, is uncreated, and there has never been a time when He did not exist.
One of the Holy Spirit's task is to convict the world of sin?
True or False?
In John 16:8, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit: “When [the Spirit] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment” (ESV). In this verse, we see a three-fold ministry the Spirit will perform in relation to the unsaved world. He will “convict” the world; that is, He will reprove it or show it to be wrong.
The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true.
True or False?
The Bible presents itself not as a record of ancient myths but as literal truth. It records actual historical events such as the destruction of Jerusalem and the policies of Cyrus that are also described by ancient historians (2 Kings 25:1–21; 2 Chron. 36:22–23). The Apostle Paul assumes that Adam was not a mythological figure but a real person (Rom. 5:12–21).