Book 2/Chapter 3 All is flesh (section 1) 1. Is all of man’s nature fleshly? 2. What is the only way to obtain anything of spiritual value from the Spirit? 3. Whatever we have from nature is what? A witness to corruption (section 2) 1. What passage does Paul turn to in order to throw …
True Moral Choice
Book 2/Chapter 2 More on free will (section 26) 1. Choice belongs to what sphere in our makeup? 2. What is necessary before we can say that a true moral choice has been made? The need for the Holy Spirit (section 27) 1. Does Calvin believe that the description in Romans 7 is of a …
Calvin and Natural Law
Book 2/Chapter 2 What natural law is for (section 22) 1. Does Calvin take the Gentiles in Romans 2:14-15 to be Christians or not? 2. Does Calvin believe in natural law? 3. How does he define it? 4. What is natural law for? General and particular (section 23) 1. Can unregenerate men affirm the right …
Darkness After Lightning
Book 2/Chapter 2 A summary (section 17) 1. What is proper to our nature? 2. What must we avoid claiming as our own? Limits of understanding (section 18) 1. What are the 3 characteristics of spiritual insight? 2. What illustration does Calvin use to describe non-believers when they have a true insight concerning God? Spiritual …
All Truth is the Lord”s
Book 2/Chapter 2 Two kinds of understanding (section 13) 1. What are the two kinds of understanding according to Calvin? 2. What is included in the former? 3. The latter? Understanding arts and science (section 14) 1. What does virtually every human being possess? 2. What do we learn from imbeciles? 3. What is a …
Three Fold Humility
Book 2/Chapter 2 Refusing to rob God (section 10) 1. When a man is utterly cast down in himself, what has he gained? 2. What is the problem with a man retaining to himself some of the honor found in “free will”? 3. Who may receive God’s blessings? True humility (section 11) 1. What did …
The Phrase “Free Will” As Stumbling Block
Cooperation with grace (section 6) 1. What is necessary before men can do good works truly? 2. What ambiguity does Calvin object to in the teaching of Lombard? Absence of compulsion (section 7) 1. What does Calvin think about “contentions about words”? 2. So why then does he reject the words free will so strongly? …
The Fathers and Free Will
Book 2/Chapter 2 Church fathers on free will (section 4) 1. Does Calvin believe that the church fathers handled the idea of free will scripturally? 2. What was the reason for this? 3. What two things were they concerned to avoid? 4. Which of the fathers was an exception to this? Different kinds of freedom …
Natural and Unnatural Both
Book 2/Chapter 1 Definition of original sin (section 8) 1. How does Calvin define original sin? 2. Do infants bear the curse of original sin? 3. Is this original sin nothing more than the absence of righteousness? The whole man in sin (section 9) 1. How far does original sin extend in a man? 2. …
Original Sin
Book 2/Chapter 1 Original Sin (section 5) 1. How does Calvin define the “death of Adam’s soul”? 2. How does Calvin define “original sin”? 3. What was Pelagius’ “profane fiction”? Is Original Sin Imitative? (section 6) 1. When are children defiled by original sin? 2. What is Adam’s position with regard to the human race? …