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The RFPA blog editor, Rev. Martyn McGeown, enjoys teaching the creeds in his capacity as pastor of Providence PRC. To that end, he has written a series of quizzes for our blog readers, to test readers' knowledge of the Canons of Dordt. Try them out, test yourselves and your friends and family, and may the questions spur you on to familiarize yourselves with the confessions.
Today, we continue with the final section of the Canons, Head Five.
Find questions 1 through 25 here.
Quiz 14 on Canons Head Five
27. True or false: God preserves the seed of regeneration in his children even when they commit gross sins.
28. True or false: When God restores his children to repentance, they show a sincere and godly sorrow over sin.
29. True or false: Since repentance is a change of mind, it is not accompanied by a change of behavior.
30. True or false: When God restores his children to repentance, they seek and obtain forgiveness in Christ’s blood.
31. True or false: When God restores his children to repentance, they experience again the favor of God.
32. True or false: In order to experience again the favor of God believers must perform good works.
33. True or false: Believers persevere in consequence of their own merits or strength.
34. True or false: Perseverance in godliness is the condition of election and justification.
35. True or false: With respect to themselves, backsliding believers would undoubtedly perish.
36. True or false: God’s counsel can be changed.
37. True or false: Christ has never prayed that believers should infallibly continue in faith.
38. True or false: God’s call according to his purpose can be revoked.
39. True or false: The merit, intercession, and preservation of Christ can be rendered ineffectual.
40. True or false: God provides everything necessary for the believer’s perseverance if he will do his duty.
41. True or false: Even if the believer uses every gift of God, perseverance still depends on man’s freewill.
42. True or false: True believers can and many do fall away from justifying faith and perish forever.
43. True or false: Arminianism makes powerless the grace, justification, regeneration, and continued keeping of Christ contrary to the words of the apostles in the New Testament.
44. True or false: It is possible for a true believer to commit the unpardonable sin.
45. True or false: If I am truly sorrowful for my sins and yet worried that I have sinned by committing blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, I certainly have not committed this sin.
46. True or false: Those who are begotten of God are so kept by him that they cannot commit the sin unto death.
47. True or false: Temporary faith is fundamentally different from true, justifying faith.
48. True or false: The regenerate can lose their regeneration and then be born again multiple times in this life.
49. True or false: It is impossible for a believer to know that he will actually persevere to the end in true faith.
50. True or false: I can say, “I am, and forever shall remain, a living member of the church.”
51. True or false: Assurance of perseverance to the end in true faith comes when God gives a believer a special revelation. Until that happens, he must remain in doubt of his final salvation.
52. True or false: Assurance of perseverance springs from faith in God’s promises.
53. True or false: Assurance of perseverance springs from the testimony of the Holy Spirit.
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Find the answers to these questions here. For more quizzes and other reader activities, visit the RFPA blog next week!
Edit 4/15/2024 at 1:05 PM. An earlier answer key contained two typos in its answers to the questions above. The key has now been corrected.
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Martyn McGeown is a pastor in the Protestant Reformed Churches. He is also the editor of the RFPA blog and the author of multiple RFPA publications.
