AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

Chapter 9: Unconditional Election
1. Being born-again must, of necessity, _________________ faith.
2. Because of what God has done before the foundation of the world. He has
_____________________ an innumerable amount of people that will respond to
the gospel.
3. The Biblical doctrine of election is, humanly speaking, ____________________
— an offense to the natural human tendency to believe that we play a part in our
own salvation.
4. The terms “______________” and “__________________” are roughly
synonymous.
5. Note that Jesus did not say, “_____________you did not believe, you are not
my sheep.”
6. Nobody seems to have a problem that God called out Israel and set them
apart and set his love upon them and distinguished them... But now in the New
Testament, many people suddenly say that God cannot set his
__________________________ upon this person as distinct for that person.
7. Election, to the Arminians was “______________________,” based upon man’s
proper reaction.
8. According to the Synod of Dordt, the Arminian position was pure
_____________________.
9. The Arminian position is not really election; it’s_________________. In the
end, it’s man’s vote that decides the outcome.
10. In Romans 8:29, the word “whom” is the ___________ of the verb and the
_______________ denotes persons, not events or happenings.
11. The word foreknow does not mean foresee. It means to _______________.
12. In contradistinction to the Arminian position, the confessions of the Dutch
Church taught what is called “_________________________election.”
13. Dr. D. James Kennedy: Why God elects one person and not another a
fascinating question and I want to tell you that the Bible never answers it. It
answers it in the _________________.
14. God has chosen the foolish things of the world, the base things of the world,
the things that are nothing. These are the things that God has chosen that
___________________ may glory in His sight.
15. God does have a general love for all men. He does love all men in the sense
that he sends sunshine and rain upon the wicked as well as upon the righteous.
But there are some people for whom he has had a _________________. Just as a
man has a ______________________ for his wife and his children, God has the
right to have a _______________________ for those who are the objects of his
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