God's Plan
Trinity/HS
Man
Jesus
Salvation
100
After Adam and Eve fell into sin, God immediately determined He would save sinners? True or False?
False. Before creation, God's plan to save sinners was already in place. Eph 1:3-5 "...even as He chose us in Christ before the foundation for the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love, He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ..."
100
God's work of salvation depends on all three persons of the Trinity?
True. The Father directs it, the Son accomplishes it, and the Spirit applies it. Eph 1:3-14
100
This is the only person who was not born a sinner.
Who is Jesus? Everyone has sinned (Romans 3:23) except for Jesus (Hebrews 4:15) who was "tempted as we are, yet without sin."
100
The Father sent the Son to reconcile God and sinners. True or False?
True. God reconciled sinners to Himself throught the death of Christ. "...God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself..." 2 Cor 5:18-19
100
A person must pray the "sinner's prayer" to be saved. True or False?
False. "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved...". Acts 16:31
200
Because God is love, in the end, every sinner will be saved from His wrath? True or False?
False. Matthew 25:31-46
200
This member or the Trinity chose the people He would save.
Who is the Father? Ephesians 1:4 and 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 "...God chose you...to be saved..."
200
Every person born, except for Jesus, needs to be saved from the wrath of God? True or False?
True. We are all "children of wrath" by nature (Eph 2:3) and because of our sin (Rom 3:20, 22-24) except for Jesus who was without sin.
200
For God to justify sinners, His just wrath against them must be satisfied. True or False?
True. Sinners are justified "through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation [a scarifice that satisfies God's wrath] by His blood..." Rom 3:24-25
200
A sinner must be "born again" to be saved? True or False?
True. Jesus said, "Unless one is born again he cannot see the kindom of God...". Jn 3:3-7
300
It is primarily this Person's work to persuade a sinner to believe the good news of the gospel.
Who is the HS? Eph 1:17-19
300
The legal basis for a sinner's justification is the good works the Spirit produces within them. True or False?
False. Justification is apart from works. "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law." Romans 3:28. "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose." Galatians 2:21
300
With sufficient time and effort, we could make ourselves worthy so God would save us from His wrath? True or False?
False. We cannot make our selves worthy and, in fact, increase our debt every day because we can't stop sinning. Psalm 130:3 "If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?"
300
The legal basis for a sinner's justification is Christ's righteous life and obedient death counted as their own (or imputed to them). True or False?
True.
300
A sinner is born again (or regenerated) as a result of their faith. True or False?
False. Believing is a result of being born of God. "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God..." 1 John 5:1
400
In justification, God makes sinners righteous? True or False?
False. God justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5) so we know that "justify" doesn't mean to "make righteous." Also Romans 3:19-24.
400
Those who believe are adopted by God and become these.
Who are His children? "...all...who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God." Jn 1:12
400
A person must repent of their sins to be saved? True or False?
True. Saving faith includes both repentance toward God and faith in Jesus. Acts 20:21 "...testifying..of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ."
400
This is the earliest mention of a Redeemer in the Bible.
What is Genesis 3:15? "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Genesis 3:15
400
Saving faith can be lost if a person commits grievous sin? True or false?
False. God's power sustains the faith of those who are being saved, causing them to endure to the end. "...by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:5
500
In justification, God declares sinners righteous. True or False?
True. "Justify" is a legal term that means to "declare" someone righteous rather than to "make" them righteous.
500
After sinners are reborn and justified, the Spirit continues to work within them to make them like this Person.
Who is Jesus? Believers are being "created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:23-24) and "are being transformed" by "the Lord who is the Spirit" (2 Cor 2:18).
500
God revealed this quality about Himself by sending His son to save us.
What is love? "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him...he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 Jn 4:9-10 1 John 4:9-10
500
This is the one mediator between man and God.
Who is Jesus? "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,...". 1 Timothy 2:5
500
Saving faith always results in good works. True or False?
True. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." Eph 2:10