Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 29 to 35

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#1. How are we made to share in the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q29)

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By the effectual application of it to us by His Holy Spirit.

It can be effectually applied to us without the Spirit.

Our own spirit needs to permit the Holy Spirit to do His work.

Those to whom the Spirit does not apply the redemption can be partakers of it.

#2. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q30)

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By working faith in us.

And through faith, uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

The redemption process can be done without faith.

The redemption process can be done without the Spirit.

#3. What is effective calling? (Q31)

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It is the work of God’s Spirit.

In effectual calling, the Spirit of God convinces us of our sin and our misery.

Those who are effectually called are never thus convinced of their sin and misery.

The Spirit enlightens our minds in the knowledge of Christ.

The Spirit renews our wills.

Our minds remain as blind and our wills as perverse as they were before.

This can be accomplished without the Spirit.

The Spirit, by all this, persuades and enables us to embrace Jesus Christ, who is freely offered to us in the gospel.

Regardless of the work of God's Spirit, we can remain unwilling and unable.

We can be thus persuaded or enabled without the Spirit.

#4. What benefits in this life are shared by those who are effectively called? (Q32)

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In this life, they partake of justification.

In this life, they partake of adoption.

In this life, they partake of sanctification.

There are various benefits that, in this life, either accompany or flow from these.

#5. What is justification? (Q33)

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In justification, God pardons all our sins.

In justification, God pardons only some of our sins.

We are still accounted as guilty.

He accepts us as righteous in His sight.

If righteous, it's because of our own merits or satisfaction [of God’s justice].

If righteous, it's only because of the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone.

We can obtain righteousness without faith.

We obtain righteousness by faith and works together.

Justification, righteousness, etc. is all an act of God's free grace.

Or, we merit or deserve, at least in part, grace or anything else from God?

#6. What is adoption? (Q34)

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By adoption, we are received into the number of the sons of God.

By adoption, we have a right to all their privileges.

This is an act of God’s free grace.

#7. What is sanctification? (Q35)

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By sanctification, are we renewed after the image of God.

In the whole man.

In only some part of our being.

We remain unrenewed as before.

We are perfectly sanctified or renewed.

We are enabled (by degrees) more and more, to die to sin and live to righteousness.

We are able by ourselves to work this sanctification or renewal.

We are able to merit it at God’s hands.

Sanctification is a work of God’s free grace.

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Questions based on John Wallis’ 1648 work A Brief and Easy Explanation of The Shorter Catechism.

Westminster Shorter Catechism Quiz: Questions 29 to 35

Results

#1. How are we made to share in the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q29)

#2. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q30)

#3. What is effective calling? (Q31)

#4. What benefits in this life are shared by those who are effectively called? (Q32)

#5. What is justification? (Q33)

#6. What is adoption? (Q34)

#7. What is sanctification? (Q35)

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#1. How are we made to share in the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q29)

#2. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? (Q30)

#3. What is effective calling? (Q31)

#4. What benefits in this life are shared by those who are effectively called? (Q32)

#5. What is justification? (Q33)

#6. What is adoption? (Q34)

#7. What is sanctification? (Q35)

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(A) INTRODUCTORY

Provision of Redemption

(B) WHAT WE ARE TO BELIEVE ABOUT GOD

Christ The Mediator

Application of Redemption

Further Benefits

(C) THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN / duty of the redeemed