061. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 27.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 27.

1. Is faith a prominent subject in Scripture?

2. Is it a subject well understood?

3. What is its etymological meaning?

4. What is implied in St. Paul’s definition?

5. In what sense is faith the gift of God?

6. In what sense is it the act of the creature?

7. In what sense do Antinomians hold this subject?

8. How is their notion disproved?

9. In what sense is God the author of faith?

10. Name some of the principal texts relied on in favor of the Antinomian view.

11. How are they explained?

12. Are there degrees in faith?

13. How is this proved?

14. Through what channel is faith derived?

15. How is this proved?

16. Upon what ground, or foundation, is faith based?

17. How is this proved from Scripture?

18. How have theologians divided faith?

19. What are the two leading views in reference to the nature of justifying faith?

20. By whom has the first been adopted?

21. Who have adopted the second?

22. How can it be proved that saving faith implies more than mental assent?

23. What serious difficulties encumber the opposite theory?