Sabbath School 20 JUN 2014

1.      What is the new ἐντολή Christ gives us? (John 13)

2.      Where does love come from?  Can it come from somewhere else? (1 John 4)

3.      Can the Law of sin and death make us righteous? (Romans 8, Galatians 2:21, 3:21)

4.      What is righteousness? (Romans 3)

5.      In the transition from the Old Covenant to the New how has the understanding of the word ἐντολή changed? (Hebrews 8)

6.      Who is the agency of righteousness?   Who alone is good? (Luke 18:19)

7.      Can righteousness originate from man?  (Romans 3)

8.      When did the Law γεγονὼς [come to be]? (Galatians 3:17)

9.      Until when is the Law utilized? (Matthew 5:18)

10.  When was the Lamb slain? (Revelation 13:8)

11.  What or who does the slain Lamb and the Tree of Life symbolize?

12.  What is Grace? (2 Cor: 9:8, 12:9, Eph 2:8)

13.  How long does Grace exist? (Romans 5:21)

14.  When did Grace begin? (Gen 1)

15.  What happens when we define righteousness as the keeping of the Law? (Gal 5:4)

16.  What are the two dominating metaphysics inherited from Greek philosophy that dominate the theological paradigms of Western Christianity?

17.  What is the difference between Platonism and Aristotelianism?

18.  How do these interpretations of truth and reality influence our understanding of Salvation by Grace through Faith? (Galatians 4:1-11)

19.  How does this understanding cause the difference in finding Grace resistible or irresistible?

20.  How does Platonism and Aristotelianism influence our perspective of human will?

21.  What major theological paradigms establish positions on free will?  Do those positions address the permanence of human free will?

22.  What do Platonism and Aristotelianism have in common for defining truth and reality?

23.  If both philosophies presuppose the dualism of Law (good and evil) how does each approach the means to keep the law?

24.  Do either philosophy’s means to righteousness agree with scripture?

25.  Is righteousness and salvation controlled by the human capability of choice based on the human knowledge of good and evil? (Romans 6:1-7)

26.  If the knowledge of good and evil leads to death how can it be used to save?

27.  What then is the basis of salvation?

28.  How does Christ reveal what righteousness is?  By whose will?

29.  If righteousness, grace, and salvation is by the will of God then is man in control of its determination?  (Romans 10:1-10)

30.  Does this mean we have no free will?

31.  What changed when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? (Genesis 3:4-13, 22-24)

32.  Why does Satan say that we would be like gods? (Genesis 3:5)

33.  If by the knowledge of good and evil sin came into the world then by whose will did it emerge?

34.  If our righteousness is not attainable by an independent, sovereign, and free human will; and sin did not come by God’s will then is either philosophy of human free will valid?

35.  What must occur in the transition from righteousness to sin for man to live by the knowledge of good and evil?

36.  What did Satan offer man?

37.  What must occur for man to return to the original state in which the knowledge of good and evil is obsolete? (Matthew 16:24-26)

38.  How did the Lamb of God achieve this? (Philippians 2:5-11)

39.  How does Christ say the truth is revealed to us John (Matt 16:16-18)?

40.  Upon what does Christ build His church?

41.  What happens when we assert that His church is built on free will? (Matt 21:42-44)

42.  If true love is only by free will, then is love of man?

43.  Is salvation earned by submission of the will or received through surrender of the will?