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I like making them, and people seem to like doing them, so it’s a shame it’s been so long since we’ve had a theological quiz. This one is on justification. It is, as you might expect, from a historic reformed protestant* position on the subject, so if you want to get an A+ on the quiz, then you have to give the historic reformed protestant answers.

I will attempt to give a short justification for the answers I accept as correct when I post the answers to the quiz on Saturday.

Ready, set, go: Choose the one option that is most correct.

1. Justification is

a. an act of God’s grace.
b. a legal or judicial act of God.
c. a progressive work of the Spirit.
d. a and b.
e. all of the above.

2. Justification includes

a. the forgiveness of our sin.
b. the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to us.
c. the declaration that we are righteous in God’s sight.
d. a and c.
e. all of the above.

3. Justification changes

a. our moral condition
b. our natures.
c. our legal status.
d. b and c above.
e. none of the above.

4. Included in the grounds for our justification is/are

a. The good works produced by the Spirit within us.
b. Our faith.
c. Christ’s righteous life and obedient death.
d. b and c.
e. all of the above.

5. We are justified when we

a. believe.
b. are baptised.
c. produce a certain level of good works.
d. a and b.
e. none of the above.

6. Which of the statements below describes faith’s role in our justification?

a. It produces the good works upon we can be justified.
b. It receives Christ’s full satisfaction of the penalty for sin and perfect fulfillment of God’s precepts.
c. It is accepted by God as a form of righteousness upon which we can be justified.
d. a and c.
e. none of the above.

*Yes, I know that phrase is redundant. I’m just trying to cover all my bases.