Book 2/Chapter 6 The need for a Mediator (section 1) 1. What illustration does Calvin use to describe heaven and earth? 2. What is our problem then? 3. What does God do for us in this situation? 4. Has any worship apart from Christ ever pleased God? Even in the old covenant (section 2) 1. …
Allegorically Half Alive?
Book 2/Chapter 5 Straining for something (section 17) 1. What argument for free will is drawn from Romans 9:16? 2. What word does Calvin use in dismissing this argument? Ecclesiasticus (section 18) 1. Does Calvin reject the author of Ecclesiasticus? 2. How does he handle this appeal? 3. What does man need instead of an …
We Have What God Gives
Book 2/Chapter 5When God waits (section 13)1. What is the next objection that Calvin deals with?2. How does Calvin answer this? Our works (section 14)1. What objection is addressed in this section?2. How does Calvin answer? Shared possession (section 15)1. In what sense are our good works ours, and in what sense God’s? Cain and …
The Word is Near You
Book 2/Chapter 5 Not a shared work (section 9) 1. How is the work of conversion divided between God and man? 2. When God gives His law, what can we say about the grace of the Lawgiver? Empty promises? (section 10) 1. To whom are the promises offered? 2. What effect do the promises have …
God’s Two-Fold Work
Book 2/Chapter 5 Why exhortation? (section 5) 1. If an impious man scoffs at exhortations from God, what can he not do? 2. What rests entirely upon God’s grace? 3. What two ways does God work within His elect? The central objection (section 6) 1. What is the central objection to Calvin’s views of free …
Answering Objections
Book 2/Chapter 5 First objection (section 1) 1. What is the first objection to Calvin’s teaching on free will? 2. How do his opponents support this objection? 3. How does Calvin answer? Second objection (section 2) 1. What is the second objection to Calvin’s teaching on free will? 2. How does Calvin answer? Third objection …
How Much More?
Book 2/Chapter 4 God’s treatment of the godless (section 4) 1. Are there passages that describe God as acting on the godless by simply “deserting” them? 2. Does this explanation cover all the scriptural data? Satan controlled (section 5) 1. What error must be avoided when discussing the “evil spirit from the Lord”? 2. Can …
No Bare Permission
Book 2/Chapter 4 Willingly under the devil’s power (section 1) 1. Does man sin willingly, even though of necessity? 2. What comparison of Augustine’s does Calvin approve? In the same event (section 2) 1. Who was involved in Job’s loss? 2. What distinguishes these various agents? 3. What aspect of God’s sovereignty is Calvin not …
Sola Gratia
Book 2/Chapter 3 Our blessedness from God alone (section 9) 1. What antithesis must we always remember? 2. How does Calvin describe the license of our pride? Not just possibilities (section 10) 1. Does God’s grace give us a chance to be good or not? 2. What must we not claim? Perseverance all of God …
Necessity and Compulsion
Book 2/Chapter 3 Necessity, not compulsion (section 5) 1. We must attribute conversion entirely to what? 2. What drives evil will and what drives good will? 3. Those who are offended by this do not know how to do what? 4. If necessity is the same as compulsion, what must be said about God? 5. …