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Mere Christianity Answer Guide

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Read and Study the Most Famous Christian Allegory of All Time, The Pilgrim's Progress



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In addition, The Pilgrim's Progress Study Guide will guide you through Bunyan's masterful use of metaphors helping you better understand key concepts, supporting Bible passages, and the relevance to our world today.

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Answers to Questions

Preface

SURGICAL LITURGICALS (Word-based/Orderly)

FROZEN CHOSEN (Pre-destined)

HURRIED WORRIED (Free-willed)

HOLY ROLLIES (Spirit-led/Spontaneous)

1. Ideally, one should place an "X" at the very center of the cross. There are Scriptures in support of each of the four arrows which certain denominations tend to over-emphasize to the exclusion of the others.

2. Being with like-minded people is a benefit derived from denominations. The familiarity and comfort of certain routines and traditions decreases chaos and distractions.

3. Over-emphasis of certain truths and doctrines to the point of completely excluding all others is the detriment of denominations. It tends to leave "thinking" to others, such as pastors and teachers, instead of thinking for ourselves.

4. By "mere Christianity" C.S. Lewis means the agreed upon, common or essentials of Christianity, not the peripheral or tangential.

5. In the past "gentleman" was used to mean "one with a coat of arms and landed property", but today it means someone who is honorable and courteous, and it is often used not as a fact but as praise. The word "Christian" originally meant "a disciple who accepted the Apostle's teaching."

Today, it has come to mean someone who is good or, more commonly, someone who is nice.

6. Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was a Puritan English clergyman who, during the English Civil War of the 1600's, sought to minimize the differences between and unite Presbyterians and Anglicans and Independent Non-conformists by focusing on a "mere" Christianity.

Book 1: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe Chapter 1: The Law of Human Nature

1. They are appealing to some kind of standard of behavior they expect the other person to know.

2. The rule or "law" of right or wrong; in the past, this was called "the law of nature" or "the law of human nature."

3. In the laws of nature, an object cannot choose whether to obey the law or not. In the law of human nature, a man can choose to either obey or disobey.

4. Because they thought everyone knew it by nature ? by who they were by human nature ? and it was odd if someone did not know right from wrong.

5. Some have said that different civilizations and different ages have had different notions of decent behavior right and wrong.

6. He does it is two ways:

1. Different moralities were never totally different.

2. Deniers always go back upon their denials, "throughout history there have absolutely been no absolutes."

7. None of us really keep the law of human nature. In other words, we fail to practice the kind of behavior we expect of others.

8. A summary might include:

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