The Cross and the Crown: A Study Material with Solved Assignments

Running head: THE CROSS AND THE CROWN
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Question 1: A central part of what your book calls "the first gospel sermon," was a declaration
of war between
Answer: A. man and Satan
Question 2: Which one of the following statements is false?
Answer: B. Victory can be ours even if we persist in loving sin.
Question 3: According to your book, Satan's "head" consists of
Answer: A. sin, the law, death.
Question 4: "The immediate effect of the coming of Christ, and of his resurrection, was the
destruction of Satan."
Answer: A. true, because scripture teaches that Jesus came to destroy Satan.
Question 5: Which one of the following would not be a good definition of "luo"?
Answer: A. relaxing the knots of a rope, so that it can be easily untied.
Question 6: Which one of the following distracters is false?
Answer: A. Sin is primarily a social and genetic problem.
Question 7: Which one of the following expressions suggests that the victory of Christ over
Satan was like an ancient Roman victory procession?
Answer: B. Made a public example.

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Question 8: The description Josephus gives of a Roman "triumph" is used in your book to
illustrate the victory
Answer: A. Christ gained at Calvary
Question 9: "Deigmatizo" means –
Answer: A. to exhibit publicly.
Question 10: Bishop John Robinson says that the various forms of "supranatural" atonement
theory
Answer: C. may have been useful in more primitive times, but are irrelevant to modern
man.
Question 11: "Atonement theory shows God as acting like a man pulling a drowning insect out
of the water." A proper response to the above statement would be -
Answer: A. "A good illustration of Reformation theology."
Question 12: Select the false statement –
Answer: A. The New Testament clearly presents a theory of atonement based on the
incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God.
Question 13: Your book argues that the basic secret of Calvary's power lies in
Answer: B. the physical and spiritual sufferings of Christ.
Question 14: Among the varieties of wounds suffered by Christ, which one of the following is
not listed?

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Answer: C. Lesion.
Question 15: There are three N.T. references to "water" and "thirst" that are recorded only in the
gospel of
Answer: D. John.
Question 16: Your book says (commenting on Jn 19:28) that the measure of the riches the
Father is willing to bestow on us is
Answer: A. the reverse of the measure of poverty Christ accepted at Calvary.
Question 17: Jesus' citation of Psalm 22:1
Answer: A. was rhetorical only; it did not reflect any real questioning of the Father's
purpose.
Question 18: Concerning Matthew 27:46,
Answer: B. neither man nor devil will ever know the horror of being utterly forsaken as
Jesus was.
Question 19: At Calvary, Christ's "own arm brought him victory, and he was upheld by his ... "
Answer: C. faith.
Question 20: The achievements of art
Answer: D. have in them a strong element of restoring man's good opinion of himself.
Question 21: The two groups of citizens excluded under old English law from "trial by combat"
were