a quiz for you to take
Mike Abendroth
TOTAL DEPRAVITY
True or False
1. When we say that every person is totally depraved, we mean that everyone acts as badly as they are capable of acting.
2. When we say that every person is totally depraved, we mean that no one is able to do good, even in the estimation of other people.
3. When we say that every person is totally depraved, we mean that sinners do not truly have a will.
4. When we say that sinners are totally depraved, we mean that God is not pleased with even the best and most upright actions that they can perform.
5. When we say that sinners are totally depraved, we mean that every human being, left to himself, is capable of the most heinous sins imaginable.
6. God gives to every person the ability to accept or reject Jesus Christ as He is offered in the gospel.
7. Every part of every sinner has been radically affected and continues to be controlled by sin.
8. Every person is free to choose what he pleases.
9. Every sinner is bound by a sinful nature so that he is unable to make choices with which God is pleased.
10. Arminians believe that, by nature, sinners have saving grace in themselves.
Fill in the Blanks
11. A good work is one that is done for the right ________,
with the right ______in view, and according to the right_____.
12. Sinners are, by nature, spiritually _______.
13. ___ _____ every sinner is the same.
14. Every sinner is, of himself, unable to receive spiritual _______.
15. ____________ believe that neither the guilt of Adam's first sin nor his depraved nature has been communicated to his offspring.
Multiple Choice
16. Which of the following does the doctrine of total depravity not include:
A. Sinners have no will,
B. Sinners cannot do good, even in the estimation of other sinners,
C. Sinners are unable to receive Christ unless God enables them to do so.
17. Sinners are
A. Spiritually blind,
B. Spiritually dead,
C. Neutral in spiritual matters.
18. Sinners come to Christ because they:
A. make a proper use of the free will that God has
given them,
B. Are born in a neutral state of freedom just like Adam was,
C. have been granted prevenient grace,
D. have been enabled by efficacious grace.
19.
A. All true human beings are born in sin.
B. No human beings are born in sin.
C. All sinners,born by ordinary generation, are born in sin.
20. The reason that sinners reject Christ and perish in their sins is that: A. God has not given them grace to believe,
B. they have misused their free wills,
C. they are sinful rebels against God who, apart from grace, always resist every effort to reclaim them.
Thomas Watson, "[Jesus] alone is the Prince of Preachers. He alone is the best of expositors."