A Religious Knowledge Quiz

Get Justification Straight

You are invited to try this quiz about the Biblical teaching concerning justification, righteousness and faith. How can a person be right with God? In each of the 10 problems choose which option you consider to be correct. If you consider both options to be correct or both to be incorrect, please choose the one that you think is more correct. Brief comments are optional. When you click on the “Submit” button, you will be taken to a page that provides biblical answers to the choices. The password for this page is: "answers". Your responses will also be sent anonymously to a researcher who is studying religious views on justification.

If, after reading the answers, you would like to send comments, you can do the quiz again. Be sure to indicate that you have done the quiz before and be sure to answer the questions again (You may select different answers, of course). If you want to correct a point of view, a Scripture reference will be helpful.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Please select the option that best describes your religious point of view:

Please give the name of your church or religion, or of the one with which you have the most kinship.

Do you exercise leadership or do some teaching in your church (pastor, elder, Sunday School teaching, group leader)?

Yes

No

Have you completed this quiz before?

This is the first time I am answering this quiz.

I have done this quiz before.

QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Before Adam fell into sin,

he was called to become righteous by keeping God’s commandments.

he was righteous and was called to express his righteousness by keeping God’s commandments.

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2. Had Adam not sinned, he would have been entitled to receive eternal life

by purchasing it through the merit of good works.

by inheriting it as a member of God’s family.

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3. Before the fall into sin,

Adam performed good works by trusting God.

Adam accomplished good works as personal obedience to God. Faith was irrelevant.

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4. Before the fall into sin,

Adam was justified (counted as righteous) from the beginning.

Adam could be justified (counted as righteous) only after passing the probation through persevering in perfect personal obedience to God.

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5. After the fall into sin,

mankind began to look to himself as worthy and as judge of right and wrong.

mankind continued to seek his worthiness in personal achievements, failing to admit that all his works were now spoiled by sin.

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6. In Genesis 15 the Lord makes a covenant with Abraham and verse 6 reads, "And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness."

It was at this point in history that Abraham was first justified.

Abraham was already justified when, in faith, he first traveled to Canaan.

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7. The following statement is true:

Works of faith are necessary for justification because faith without works is dead.

There is no sense in which works are necessary for justification. Man is justified through faith alone.

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8. The following statement is true:

We are justified by faith, not by obedience.

Faith should not be contrasted with obedience, since faith itself is obedience.

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9. Christ’s work for the justification of sinners consisted in

dying for their sins and purchasing heaven by good works.

dying for their sins.

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10. The believers' daily confession of sin and prayer for forgiveness, and God’s granting of forgiveness