STUDY GUIDE FOR ADDITIONAL READING ASSIGNMENT 1

The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapters 1-4.

Answer the following review questions on each chapter:

 

Chapter 1

 

1. Why is the Bible necessary?

 

2. What purpose do the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament serve?

 

3. What is the position of the Westminster Confession of Faith regarding the Apocryphal books?

 

4. What is the basis of the authority of the Scriptures? Why should we believe them and obey them?

 

5. What is it that persuades us to believe in the authority and truth of the Scriptures?

 

6. What is meant by the sufficiency of the Scriptures?

 

7. What things are clear to all in the Scriptures?

 

8. To what documents should we appeal to resolve controversies?

 

9. What is the "infallible rule of interpretation" of the Scriptures?

 

10. Who is the "supreme judge" to settle all controversies?

 

 

Chapter 2

 

1. What are some of the attributes of the true and living God mentioned in the Confession?

 

2. What does it mean that God is "all-sufficient"?

 

3. Express the biblical teaching of the Trinity.

 

 

Chapter 3

 

1.  What are the teachings of the Confession regarding God's eternal decree?

 

2. What process is necessary to carry out the salvation for those whom God has elected? What does the Confession mention?

 

3. What practical advice does the Confession give regarding how we should handle the doctrine of predestination?

 

4. What benefits come from understanding the doctrine of predestination?

 

Chapter 4

 

1. What does the Confession say about how God created the world?

 

2. What attributes of man are mentioned in the Confession?