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[Mike Abendroth]

Are <http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?p=3783>  You Truly a Protestant OR
an Unwitting Roman Catholic?


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Published November 21st, 2007 by Chris Rosebrough in
<http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?cat=88> Justification,
<http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?cat=102> Bible Study,
<http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?cat=112> Doctrine,
<http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?cat=115> Discernment 

You may have never set foot in a Roman Catholic Church your entire life. You
may even be a life long member of a Protestant Church. But, because so much
of Protestantism has wandered away from sound Biblical preaching you may
actually have far more in common with Catholicism than you do with Orthodox
Christianity (Protestantism). Below is a short 10 question diagnostic tool
to help you determine what you are.

Please record your answers to the 10 questions. In each of the following 10
choices, mark either (a) or (b), whichever you believe is correct.

1. (a) God gives a man right standing with Himself by mercifully accounting
him innocent and virtuous.

(b) God gives a man right standing with Himself by actually making him into
an innocent and virtuous person.

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2. (a) God gives a man right standing with Himself by placing Christ's
goodness and virtue to his credit.

(b) God gives a man right standing with Himself by putting Christ's goodness
and virtue into his heart.

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3. (a) God accepts the believer because of the moral excellence found in
Jesus Christ.

(b) God makes the believer acceptable by infusing Christ's moral excellence
into his life.

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4. (a) If a Christian becomes "born again" (regenerate, transformed in
character), he will achieve right standing with God.

(b) If the sinner accepts right standing with God by faith in Christ's
sinless life and atoning death, he will then experience transformation in
character.

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5. (a) We receive right standing with God by faith alone in the blood of
Christ.

(b) We receive right standing with God by faith which has become active by
love.

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6. (a) We achieve right standing with God by having Christ live out His life
of obedience in us.

(b) We achieve right standing with God by believing that Christ obeyed the
law perfectly for us.

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7. (a) We achieve right standing with God by following Christ's example by
the help of His enabling grace.

(b) We follow Christ's example because His sinless life has given us right
standing with God.

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8. (a) God first pronounces that we are good in His sight, then gives us His
Spirit to begin to make us good.

(b) God sends His Spirit to make us good, and then He will pronounce that we
are good.

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9 (a) Christ's intercession at God's right hand gives us favor in the sight
of God.

(b) It is the indwelling Christ that gives us favor in God's sight.

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10. (a) Only by faith in the doing and dying of Christ can we fully satisfy
the claims of the Ten Commandments.

(b) By the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, we can fully satisfy the
claims of the Ten Commandments.

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Answers.

1. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

2. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

3. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

4. A= Catholicism, B= Protestantism

5. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

6. A= Catholicism, B= Protestantism

7. A= Catholicism, B= Protestantism

8. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

9. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

10. A=Protestantism, B=Catholicism

How did you do?

If you are unwittingly subscribing to Catholicism rather than Biblical
Christianity then we recommend that you read all of the articles in this
issue of <http://www.presenttruthmag.com/archive/II/index.htm>  Present
Truth Magazine. It will be a tremendous help to you. 

 

 

Thanks.

 

For the King's honor,

 

Charis,

 

Mike Abendroth

 

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Ephesians 3:21 auvtw/| h` do,xa evn th/| evkklhsi,a| 

 

2 Tim 1:2b  "Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our
Lord."

 

"Faith is not our physician; it only brings us to the Physician ... Faith is
not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on
Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us;
that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for
our sins.  It is a sin-bearer that we need, and our faith cannot be a
sin-bearer. Faith can expiate no guilt; can accomplish no propitiation; can
pay no penalty; can wash away no stain; can provide no righteousness. It
brings us to the cross, . but in itself it has no merit and no virtue.
Faith is not Christ, nor the cross of Christ. Faith is not the blood, nor
the sacrifice; . Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between
itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves,
and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing
virtue. It owns the fulness, and sufficiency, and suitableness of the work
done there, and bids the toiling spirit cease from its labours and enter
into rest. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see
the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion
without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the "It is finished!"
of the Sin-bearer, and says, "Amen."   

NOT FAITH, BUT CHRIST 

by Horatius Bonar 
(1808-1889) 

 

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