The Gospel Exam – Answers

What Is The Gospel? Answers are highlighted below…

1. What does the Gospel say about the state of man (mankind’s spiritual condition at birth and up to and including salvation)?
   1. All are sinners but all are still able to reach out to God and receive salvation.
   2. All are sinners and spiritually dead but all are still able to receive salvation.
   3. All are sinners and spiritually dead and unable to reach out to God to receive salvation, and instead are completely at God’s mercy. Sinners must rely on God alone to convert them.
   4. None of the above.
2. What does the Gospel say about God’s part in determining who gets saved?
   1. God saves anyone as long as they first accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
   2. God saves all good people, even from other religions outside of Christianity.
   3. God only saves those people for whom Jesus died, known as God’s elect (Christ’s bride).
   4. None of the above.
3. What does the Gospel say about the scope of salvation?  Whose sins did Christ atone for?
   1. All the sins of all men.
   2. All the sins of all men, except the sin of unbelief.
   3. All of the sins of some men. – all the sins of Gods elect were paid for at the cross of calvary, even the sin of unbelief.  But the sins of the lost were not paid for by Christ, which is why they must pay for their sins themselves, in hell.  We all deserve hell, but God, in His mercy chose to save some, to have a people for himself for all eternity.  Are you one of His people?
   4. None of the above.
4. What does the Gospel say about the success of God’s offer of Salvation?
   1. A person can refuse it even if he or she is one of God’s elect.
   2. All people will refuse it unless they are God’s elect. – that’s what it means to be lost.  It takes a supernatural act of God for a soul to be converted to Christ.  None want Christ until and unless He gives them a new heart and a new spirit.
   3. Everybody in the entire world can receive it, some just don’t take the gift, others do.
   4. None of the above.
5. What does the Gospel says about the permanence of salvation?
   1. A person cannot lose their salvation if they were sincere when they prayed to be saved.
   2. A person cannot lose their salvation if they were genuinely converted by God. – since salvation was paid in full for God’s people by Christ at Calvary, their salvation does not depend on their performance, just upon Christ’s payment.  However, Christ’s true sheep will act like sheep and will want to live a life of thankful service to Him.
   3. A person who was genuinely saved can lose their salvation if they walk away from God.
   4. None of the above.

How well did you do?  Don’t feel bad if you got the wrong answers.  Truth is, most churches, preachers, bible teachers, and evangelists get it wrong every time they preach it. For more on this subject, please check out the following: Predestination & Free-Will – Calvinism & Arminianism

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