Soteriology Flashcards
(21 cards)
Redemption
Deliverance by payment of a price.
* Matt. 20:28 Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
* Gal. 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us-for it is written, “Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree.”
* Eph. 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood…
* I Tim. 2:6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all…
* Titus 2:14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession…
Propitiation
To appease wrath by an appropriate transaction or sacrifice.
(Similar to Expiation-Objective removal w/out satisfaction of anger.)
* Heb. 2:17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
* I John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
* I John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Substitution
The vicarious suffering of Christ on behalf of sinners.
* Is. 53:6 …the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
* Matt. 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
* II Cor. 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
* I Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness…
Reconciliation
Restoration of fellowship by removal of sin.
* Rom. 5:10 For if while we were enemies were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
* II Cor. 5:19 God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
* Col.1:20-22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death…
Extent of the Atonement
Limited Atonement
* Matt. 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
* John 10:15 I lay down my life for the sheep
* John 15:13 (Christ) …one lay down his life for his friends.
* Eph. 5:25 Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.
**Unlimited Atonement **
* II Cor 5:19 God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
* I Tim 2:6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all…
* II Peter 2:1 …false prophets… denying the Master who bought them.
Conclusion
Unlimited and Limited Aspects
* John 3:16 For God so loved the world… that whoever believes in Him…
* I Tim 4:10 … who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
* Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires…
* I John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world
Christ died for all men.
* I Tim 2:6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all…
Christ effectively redeemed the elect on the cross.
* Heb. 2:14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed, and purify for Himself a people for His own possession…
* Heb. 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.…
* Rev. 5:9 …for Thou wast slain, and didst purchase(aorist) for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
Foreknowledge
Meaning
Relational, not mere head knowledge.
Support
* Deut. 4:37 Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants.
* Rom. 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined…
* Rom. 11:2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.
* I Peter 1:20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world…
Election
Meaning
God’s choosing of individuals to receive grace and salvation.
God’s Sovereignty
* Ex. 33:19 …I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.
* John 15:16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
* Rom. 9:11 the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad…
* Eph. 1:4 Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the World…
* I Peter 1:1-2 …chosen according to the foreknowledge of the Father…
Man’s Free Will
* Deut. 30:19 …I have set before you life and death… So choose life…
* Matt. 11:28 …Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
* Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, Repent, and let each one of you be baptized.
* Rom. 10:21 …All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.
* II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as come count slowness…
Predestination
Meaning
To mark out a boundary before. Emphasizes end results of election.
Support
* Rom. 8:29, 30 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined…
* Eph. 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself.
Double Predestination
* II Sam. 14:14 God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
* Matt. 25:41 …eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
* Rom. 9:22-23 …vessels of wrath prepared(middle) for destruction… vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory.
Calling
Rom. 8:30 and whom He predestined, these He also called…
General Call
* Deut. 30:19 …I have set before you life and death… So choose life…
* Matt. 11:28 …Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
* Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, Repent, and let each one of you be baptized.
* Rom. 10:21 …All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.
* II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as come count slowness…
Specific Call
* John 6:44 No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent me draws Him.
* Rom. 8:30 …whom He predestined, these He also called…
* II Tim 1:9 Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace…
OT Salvation
- Rom. 3:25 In the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed.
- Heb. 9:15 And for this reason, He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
- Gen. 15:6 Then he (Abraham) believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
- Rom. 4 Abraham justified through faith.
Law vs. Grace
* Rom. 3:20 by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
* Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
* Gal. 3:24-25 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come we are no longer under a tutor.
NT Salvation
Conviction of the Spirit
* John 16:8-11 And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment.
* Acts 7:51 …always resisting the Holy Spirit…
Drawing
* John 6:44 No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws Him.
* John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.
Belief/Faith
Knowledge of the Facts
* Rom. 10:17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
* II Tim. 3:15 …the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation.
Assent to this Knowledge
* Heb. 11:6 He that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a …
Personal Appropriation of Christ
* Matt 11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…
* John 3:16 that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish…
* John 6:53 Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves…
* Rom. 10:9-10 That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and …
Christ the Only Way
* Matt. 7:13, 14 Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide… that leads to destruction… for the gate is small… that leads to life…
* John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father, but through Me.
* Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else…
Repentance
Repentance
* Acts 2:38 Repent and let each one of you be baptized.
* Acts 20:21 solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
* Acts 26:20 declaring… that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.
* I Thess. 1:9 …how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God.
* Heb. 6:1 …repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.
Confession
To agree that one is guilty and that Christ is Lord.
* Matt. 10:32 Every one therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.
* Rom. 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess…
Lordship of Christ
kurios - “master, owner, ruler”
* Luke 6:46 Why do you call me “Lord, Lord” and do not do what I say?
* John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life…
* John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
* Acts 2:36 God has made Him both Lord and Christ.
* Ps. 110:1 The Lord says to my Lord: sit at My right hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet. (Peter quotes in Acts 2).
* Phil. 2:9-11 that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord…
* Rev. 19:16 “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Christ the Only Way
* Matt. 7:13, 14 Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide… that leads to destruction… for the gate is small… that leads to life…
* John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life…
* Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else…
Regeneration
New Nature
* John 3:3 …unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
* II Peter 1:4 …partakers of the divine nature…
New Creature
* II Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature…
New Relationship
Adoption (Joint heirs with Christ)
* Rom. 8:15 …you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out “Abba Father!”
* Rom. 8:23 …waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
* Gal. 4:4-7 …that we might receive the adoption as sons …you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
Justification
The believing sinner declared to be righteous(they are).
* Rom. 3:24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.
* Rom. 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God.
* Rom. 5:18 … through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
Forgiveness
- Eph. 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses…
- Eph. 4:32 …just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
- Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Eternal Security
- John 6:39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
- John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice… I give eternal life to them, they shall never perish… no one shall snatch them out of my hand … no one shall snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
- Rom. 8:29-30 For whom he foreknew—–>these He also glorified.
- Rom. 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
- I Peter 1:5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Sanctification
Position vs. Practice
Position
* Heb. 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Practice
* II Cor. 3:18 …we all …are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Completion
* I John 3:2 …when He appears we shall be like Him…
Glorification
Deliverance from sin and all of its effects.
Deliverance from Corrupt Bodies
* Rom. 8:23 …waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
* I Cor. 15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and the mortal must put on the immortality.
* Phil 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory…
Deliverance from Sinful Flesh
* I John 3:2 …when He appears we shall be like Him…
Deliverance from Cursed Earth
* Rev. 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…
Deliverance from Satan and His Forces
* Rev. 20:10 and the devil … was thrown into the lake of fire…
Heaven
The Atmosphere (1st)
* Is. 55:10 For as the rain and snow come down from heaven…
The Celestial Universe (2nd)
* Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God…
The Abode of God (3rd)
* Is. 57:15 For thus says the high and exalted one… I dwell on a high and holy place…
* Rev. 21:4 …no longer any death… no longer any mourning, or crying or pain…
* Rev. 22:3-5 …no longer be any curse… no longer be any night… the Lord God shall illumine…
Hell
Sheol
Temporary place of the OT dead.
* Gen. 37:35 Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son…
* Deut. 32:22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, and burns to the lowest part of Sheol…
* Ps. 139:8 If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
* Luke 16:22 the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom…
* Heb. 9:15 …since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Hades
Temporary place of the wicked dead(Usually trans. Sheol)
* Luke 16:23 Rich man “in Hades”
* Rev. 20:13-14 …death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged… and death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.
Abyss
The prison for demons.
* Luke 8:31 And they were entreating Him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
* II Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness(s), reserved for judgment.
* Rev. 20:1-2 Satan bound for a thousand years in the abyss.
Gehenna
The final hell to which the ungodly will be eternally condemned.
* Matt. 25:41 … Depart from me, accursed ones, in the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
* Rev. 22:14-15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire (Same idea as gehenna).
