# Study Questions # SQ: Bible Memorization CULTS

CULTS

 

Study Questions over Bible Memorization

 

 

 

1. Has the value of memorizing Scripture been overstated?

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2. List the eight reasons given in class that tell why Christians should memorize

Scripture.  Include the Bible reference(s) given with each reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. How many methods of Bible study were covered in class; what are they; and, what

does each involve?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Which Bible verse(s) requires us to be prepared?

 

 

 

 

5. What will help you recognize, realize, and understand the will of God for your life?

 

 

 

 

6. Which Scripture(s) tells why it is impossible for some to please God?

(Give verbatim.)

 

 

 

 

7. In what should your faith be rooted?

 

 

 

 

8. Is it possible to stand without knowing the facts of your faith?

 

 

 

 

9. How can you learn and absorb the facts of faith?

 

 

 

 

10. How do you get and/or increase your faith?  (Use Scripture.)

 

 

 

 

11. Why should "thus saith the Lord" be imprinted on your mind and heart?

 

 

 

 

12. What is a solution to bad thoughts?

 

 

 

 

13. Who can memorize Scripture?

 

 

 

 

 

14. Which Scripture(s) tells you that in the strength of Christ all you can do is enough?

 

 

 

 

15. Why should your child's memory work come from your memory work?

 

 

 

 

16. Can a child comprehend Scripture and will he or she retain it?

 

 

 

 

17. What are the two most important steps to memorizing Scripture effectively?

 

 

 

 

18. When should you memorize Scripture?

 

 

 

 

19. What is the key to accurate Bible memory?

 

 

 

 

20. How will you retain memorized Scripture?  OR, What is the key to retaining

memorized Scripture?

 

 

 

 

21. Is Bible memory the end?  (Use Scripture.)

 

 

 

 

22. What three characteristics will tell the world whether or not you are a disciple of

Jesus Christ?  (Use Scripture for each.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23. How can you be happy when you know that the Bible says?  (Use Scripture.)

 

 

 

 

24. How do you feel about Bible memorization since taking this course?

 

 

 

 

25. What suggestions would you give to someone else for successful Bible memory?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXTRA CREDIT—Quote aloud to someone all the verses of Scripture that you can recall.  Then, write out the references to all the verses of Scripture that you can quote accurately, and have the individual that listens to you initial those verses of Scripture that you quote correctly.  (Consider the lesson from II Kings 13:18,19.)

# SQ: Chapter 1 CULTS

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS CHPT. 1

 

  1. Which of Paul’s admonitions and warnings should be cause enough for each of us to make careful doctrinal examination of himself?
  2. How does one avoid or shorten spiritual correction?
  3. What is a cult?
  4. What was Paul’s advice to elders with regard to taking care of the church?
  5. Why…are people attracted to false religious doctrines and practices as against true commitment to Jesus Christ and His Church?  (Support reasons with Scripture.)
  6. Why do people refuse to believe the true Gospel of Christ after they hear of the truth of God?  (NOTE:  The Chief Reason People Refuse to Believe the Gospel.)
  7. What is the primary reason Christians defect from their allegiance to Christ?
  8. Why must the spiritual infant…not tarry too long in infancy?  (See notes.)
  9. What is the most important thing in the life of a new Christian?
  10. What is the key to developing Christian maturity?
  11. What does the heresy of phenomenalism deny and what does it teach instead?
  12. What does the heresy of Gnosticism deny and what does it teach instead?
  13. In what does true wisdom consist?
  14. What is every Christian’s primary responsibility with regard to cults?
  15. What makes cultic points of view attractive?
# SQ: Chapters 2-3 CULTS

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS—CHAPTERS 2 & 3

 

  1. What are the “sentinels of Scripture”?  (Give references)
  2. Does the Bible contain truth?
  3. What is the foremost mark of a cult?
  4. What cardinal doctrine is expressed in John 1:1?
  5. What follows upon the belief that the Bible is God’s final and only authority?
  6. When does God’s Word become effective in our lives?
  7. What are the two greatest reasons for the proliferation of the cults?
  8. Is any revelation that does not come specifically/directly from the Bible necessarily “extra-Biblical”?
  9. What must one do to be saved?
  10. What is the basis of salvation?
  11. What does Scripture say about salvation that is based on human effort?
  12. Define the following terms: justification, imputed righteousness, and grace.
  13. Does personal righteousness or works have anything to do with one’s salvation?  (Do not merely restate the question in your answer.  Thank you.)
  14. What are the two most popular alternative doctrines of salvation?
  15. What would be true if salvation did come by the law?

EXTRA CREDIT (possible 20 points):  Reproduce the diagram given in class depicting the basis of our salvation using your own selection from the Bible for each level.

# SQ: Chapters 4-5 CULTS

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS—CHAPTERS 4 & 5

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS: Know the meaning of each vocabulary word and be ready with an answer for each question.

 

  1. What do most cults claim about the assurance of salvation?
  2. Therefore, what might be a nearly universal weapon of the cults?
  3. What does the Scripture promise with regard to the assurance of salvation?
  4. Why do the cults fail to make such a promise?
  5. What then is a common characteristic of the cults?
  6. How does the cultist stand against the freedom that comes through faith in the finished work of Christ?
  7. Why do cultists “traffic in anxiety”?  (Give at least two reasons.)
  8. What is predictable about cults that elevate the person and the words of a man to a messianic level?
  9. Is it wrong and dishonoring to god to honor those who are leaders?  (Use Scripture.)
  10. What is true about those who have devoted themselves to a man?
  11. What would you or any potential leader do well to remember about human followers?
  12. What are the forms of presumptuous messianic leadership?
  13. What is the New Testament teaching regarding human mediatorship?  (Include Scripture.)
  14. What course should the life of the believer take as his personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ develops?
  15. What then is the function of true Christian leadership?

 

VOCABULARY:

 

 

acquiescence

arrogating

automaton

beguiled

charlatan

cosmology

deferring

devoid

discretion

emulate

enamored

exploited

imperative

inordinate

primrose path

replete

repository

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

â March 24, 1999 Study Questions due

â March 31, 1999 Test covering Chapters 4&5; and two lectures on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ  (50% from textbook and 50% from classroom lectures)

â April 7, 1999 Test on Jude memorization

 

# SQ: Chapter 7 CULTS

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS—CHAPTER 7

 

 

  1. Dave Breese says, “…the best things in life are not only free, but they are usually obvious.”  Think about that.  How might this statement be applied?

 

  1. What verse(s) of Scripture declares that no one has “inside information” of God and His power?  (Write it, or them, out in entirety.)

 

  1. What is the proper response to the claim of an individual to a new divine discovery?

 

  1. In your own words, tell why the cults are usually just an intermediate step into the occult.

 

  1. What are the Biblical, or divine, rules of evidence?  (List them.)

 

 

VOCABULARY WORDS—

 

diversions metaphysical ranconteurs

feigned purported securities

incursion perveyed` unconfirmabel

# SQ: Earmarks of a Cult Cults Study Questions – Earmarks (Part I)

Cults Study Questions – Earmarks (Part I)

 

  1. List the first six earmarks of the cults discussed in class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. How has God revealed Himself to man?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the meaning of the word inspired?

 

 

 

  1. What is the most typical characteristic of a cult?

 

 

 

 

  1. Give Scripture to show that a man is not saved by works. (Write out Scripture with reference)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Explain that one can be certain of their salvation. (Use Scripture)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Who is the mediator between God and men? (Give Scripture verbatim)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Why is doctrinal ambiguity dangerous?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What must be the final authority of the Christian?

 

 

10.  Can secret knowledge save man?