AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

the lost.
One of the most misunderstood teachings of the modern era is what it means to
be “born-again.” Most modern evangelical Christians have been taught that as a
sinner repents of his sin and put his faith in God, he becomes born-again. This is
what the Arminian party was advocating and what the Calvinists rejected. How,
they asked, can a dead man have faith?
18. Pastor Walter Bowie: The modern church teaches that you have to have faith
in order to be born-again. This is the exact______________ of what Jesus said in
John 3. As a matter of fact, in response to the question ‘How can a man be bornagain?’
Jesus did not say repent and believe. He said it is like the wind and you
don’t know where it is going or where it is coming. In other words, he’s saying
that the new birth is something that you can’t ___________, you can’t
___________, it happens and you experience it.
19. Dr. Roger Shultz: I think one of the problems that evangelists have is seeing
people not as being dead, but as being sick. You’re sick in your sins and you
need a little therapy or you need a little medicine and then you can get better.
But Scripture teaches that we are dead and what we need is a spiritual
______________________.
20. Eric: Jesus likened being born-again to a “new birth”, a spiritual
resurrection. God works this miracle on spiritually dead people who have
neither the ability nor desire to live for Him. This is what the Bible, numerous
church councils, and countless “champions of the faith” have taught —that being
born-again is a __________________work: the effort of God alone.
21. Pastor Walter Bowie: In the New Testament, there are three figures used to
designate the new life in Christ, they are _________, ______________ and
_________________________. The one thing they all have in common is the fact
that the person or thing involved is ________________. You can do nothing to be
born, if you’re dead you can do nothing to be resurrected, and you can do
nothing to be created if you do not already exist. And so it all means that the
initiative must all come from God’s side, not man’s side.
22. Dr. R.C. Sproul explains that Arminians have “unconverted sinners who are
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