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Evaluation: Are You Catholic or Protestant?

Taken from Robert D. Brinsmead, Justification, (Verdict Pub., 1980), pp. 7-9

Surveys of responses to the following evaluation have shown that most Protestants are more Catholic than Protestant in their concept of justification. Before and after reading the essays in this book, please record your choice-either (a) or (b) in each of the following statements. 
1. God gives a man right standing with Himself by mercifully accounting him innocent and virtuous.
God gives a man right standing with Himself by actually making him innocent and virtuous.
     
2. God gives a man right standing with Himself by placing Christ's goodness and virtue to his credit.
God gives a man right standing with Himself by putting Christ's goodness and virtue into his heart.
 
3. God accepts the believer because of the moral excellence found in Jesus Christ.
God makes the believer acceptable by infusing Christ's moral excellence into his life.
 
4. If a Christian is "born again" (regenerate, transformed in character), he will achieve right standing with God.
If the sinner accepts right standing with God by faith, he will then experience transformation in character.
 
5. We receive right standing with God by faith alone.
We receive right standing with God by faith which has become active by love.
 
6. We achieve right standing with God by having Christ live out His life of obedience in us.
We achieve right standing with God by accepting the fact that He obeyed the law perfectly for us.
 
7. We achieve right standing with God by following Christ's example with the help of His enabling grace.
We follow Christ's example because His life has given us right standing with God.
 
8. God first pronounces us good in His sight, then gives us His Spirit to make us good.
God sends His Spirit to make us good, and then He will pronounce us good.
 
9. Christ's intercession at God's right hand gives us favor in the sight of God.
The indwelling Christ gives us favor in God's sight.
 
10. Only by faith in the doing and dying of Christ can we fully satisfy the claims of the Ten Commandments.
By the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, we can fully satisfy the claims of the Ten Commandments.
 
    

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