Creation
The Latin term for "out of nothing."
What is ex nihilo?
"Thou shalt not kill."
What is the sixth commandment?
Any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
What is sin?
The first man.
Who was Adam?
He was cast into the sea and saved by a great fish.
Who was Jonah?
The view that creation was accomplished in six days of normal length, i.e., approximately 24 hours.
What is the traditional view, the 24-hour day view or the literal view?
What is the eighth commandment?
An act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone.
What is justification?
The oldest man in the world.
Who was Methuselah?
He prepared the way for Jesus, and was killed by Herod.
The view that holds to the creation days at the beginning of creation (as described in Gen. 1) as allowing for long durations of time.
What is the day-age view?
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy..."
What is the fourth commandment?
An act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
What is adoption?
The friend of God and the father of the faithful.
Who was Abraham?
He delivered Christ to be put to death, as mentioned in the Apostles' Creed.
Who was Pontius Pilate?
The interpretation that the total picture of God’s completing His creative work in a week of days is not to be taken literally. Instead it functions as a literary structure in which the creative works of God have been narrated in a topical order.
What is the framework view?
"Thou shalt not commit adultery."
What is the seventh commandment?
The work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
What is sanctification?
Who was Elijah?
The washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
What is Baptism?
This view claims that the creation days were historical, but were extraordinary in character. Just as man’s work is patterned off of God’s work (the potter molds clay as God molded Adam’s body), so also man’s week is patterned off of God’s week.
What is the analogical view?
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
What is the ninth commandment?
A holy ordinance instituted by Christ, wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.
What is a sacrament?
A Jewess, who was made queen, and saved her people from being destroyed.
Who was Esther?
What is the Lord's Supper?