Quiz: What's your theological worldview?

[The Parson]

Originally Posted by MavMin Ah, but what is in the bucket comes up in the well so you are a fundamentalist at heart. You're just in denial.

De Nile. Isn't that a river in Egypt???

[Ed Edwards]

You scored as a Reformed Evangelical
You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God's Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are sceptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people hear how they can go to heaven when they die.

Reformed Evangelical =57%

I agree: I hold to TULIP and I wonder about universal atonement & resistible grace. Salvation is a Big part of what the Bible talks about and why Jesus Died on the Cross & was raised again. But a score of 57% says that (my lowest score was 39%) i'm not real firm & fixed on that viewpoint. For politics I'm a centrist. The viewpoint I claim is Traditional Fundamentalism.

[flaja]

I am supposedly 61% Fundamentalist and 71% Holiness/Wesleyan. I am certainly not 100% Fundamentalist (when you go by man’s criteria), but having experienced modern Methodism first hand at Emory University, I want no part of Wesley in his modern form.

BTW: I am 0% Pentecostal, but didn’t Pentecostalism develop out of the 19th century Holiness movement? At what point did Holiness and Pentecostalism diverge?

But at any rate, the quiz does have some flaws.

1. If you fall away from your faith, then you had no faith to begin with. You cannot lose what you never had. But it may take some people a lifetime to gain faith.

3. God is God’s primary revelation of Himself; the Bible serves only to verify that what you accept as God is really God.

16. Do you know what God has really said? For example: God says that He created the universe in 6 days- but He hasn’t told us beyond all doubt what He considers a day to be. People who accept a literal 24 hour solar day (something that the earth has not always had according to archaeology, historical records and the Indian Ocean Earthquake that altered the earth’s rotation on its axis and orbit around the sun) are accepting without question what they think God said rather than what God actually said.

22. How do you know that your inner experience comes from God and not Satan? It is very easy for someone to have blind faith in Satan while believing that their faith is in God because they make no real effort to understand God.

25. If you disagree with this conclusion, what do you put in its place? By not acknowledging any alternatives, this quiz may not accurately reflect your worldview. Someone who believes that Jesus’ primary message was repentance and being born again likely does not have the same worldview as someone who believes Jesus’ primary message was fighting for the economically downtrodden. I realize that this particular distinction is clarified by other questions, but what about all other possible alternatives?

29. What difference does the severity of sin make? Won’t disobeying God in one thing send you to Hell just as much as disobeying God in all things will? Is this question supposed to be about homosexuality, something that the Roman Catholic Church officially condemns, or is it about a halfway house to Heaven, something that the Roman Catholic Church accepts in the form of purgatory?

39. Does accepting Jesus as an excellent moral teacher mean that you don’t accept Him as God?

43. Define day. See above.

49. What if you accept the possibility of miracles in today’s world, but don’t believe that miracles happen very often because you are totally skeptical of anyone who uses “miracles” to collect tithes and offerings?

50. Again do you bother to verify that your inward experience is really from God and not Satan?

54. With or without Christ?

[Zandra]

Originally Posted by flaja I am supposedly 61% Fundamentalist and 71% Holiness/Wesleyan. I am certainly not 100% Fundamentalist (when you go by man’s criteria), but having experienced modern Methodism first hand at Emory University, I want no part of Wesley in his modern form.

Hi flaja, welcome to the forum.

What do you mean by man’s criteria? What’s your definition of a fundamentalist?

[flaja]

Originally Posted by Zandra Hi flaja, welcome to the forum. What do you mean by man’s criteria? What’s your definition of a fundamentalist?

My biggest beef with the Fundamentalists is probably the age of the earth. I see no absolute evidence in the Bible that God created the earth in 6 solar days because the Bible does not use the Hebrew word for day in a consistent manner. But even if God did create the world in 6 solar days, these days were not likely 24 hour days. There is some archaeological and documentary evidence that the earth has not always had 24 hour days or even 365.25 day years. Insisting on solar days for the creation week is man’s doctrine, not God’s. I refuse to be dogmatic about the age of the world. However, I utterly reject any and all forms of the Gap Theory. I also reject any claim that any living thing died before Adam and Eve sinned. A God that would create living things just to have them die for the fun of it is a god that is unworthy of acknowledgement, let alone worship.

As far as I know, Fundamentalists in America tend to be independent Baptists that generally refuse to cooperate with each other and often give their pastors dictatorial powers. Neither practice has any biblical foundation.