SQ: Chapters 4-5

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS—CHAPTERS 4 & 5

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

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