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God’s purpose in Christ’s atonement was to provide salvation (make it available) for all mankind.

Where would we find the following phrase: “without confusion, without conversion, without severance, and without division”?

In order to avoid encouraging man’s pride, we must say that God is responsible for sin in some way.

How did Arians use Proverbs 8:22 (“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old”) to argue for their position?

Christ is God’s first creature, who then created everything else.

Read carefully the following statements made by a single, modern author, and indicate which ancient heresy he follows:·         “The Bible sets forth that Jehovah is the Almighty God, and that our Lord Jesus is His Son, His offspring, gloriously exalted to the Father’s right hand of power.”·         “Three Gods, equal in power and glory, could not be said to send each other; neither would they pray to each other, as Jesus prayed to the Father.”·         “Necessarily, however, God’s creations. had a beginning. One was first, and the Bible most clearly and repeatedly and distinctly tells us that that first one, ‘The Beginning of the creation of God,’ was the Logos. And the Bible explains that Jehovah’s First-Born Son was highly honored, in that the Father used Him as the Channel and Agency through whom all subsequentcreations were effected.” (source available upon request).

Arminians do not believe in the doctrine of election.

Jesus Christ only appeared to have a human body.

Erickson lists the following five interpretations of what Jesus might have done with his divine attributes during his incarnation. Which one does Erickson believe has the strongest merit?

Which of the following does Gnosticism (and specifically its Docetic form) reject?