Third-order doctrines

Disagreement is possible inside one church or confession. Scoring weight 1 (method).

Third-order doctrines weight 1

T01

Millennium

Amillennial, premillennial, postmillennial.

1 question T02

Timing of end-times events

Tribulation and rapture questions, preterism.

1 question T03

Age of the earth and days of creation

Literal days or other readings.

1 question T04

Mode of baptism

Immersion, pouring, sprinkling.

1 question T05

Frequency of communion

Weekly, monthly, quarterly.

1 question T06

Atonement models beyond the core

Ransom, Christus Victor, recapitulation: emphasis and models.

2 questions T07

Order of decrees

Supra- or infralapsarianism.

1 question T08

Origin of the soul

Traducianism or creationism.

1 question T09

Intermediate state

The soul's state between death and resurrection.

1 question T10

Final punishment

Eternal conscious punishment or annihilation.

1 question T11

Universal restoration as a hope

Gregory of Nyssa's hope, held as hope not dogma.

1 question T12

Spiritual gifts

Cessation or continuation.

1 question T13

Sabbath and Lord's Day

Strict sabbatarian or not.

1 question T14

Regulative or normative worship

Exclusive psalmody, instruments.

1 question T15

Liturgical calendar

Observing feasts and seasons.

1 question T16

Clerical celibacy

Discipline, not dogma.

1 question T17

Fasting rules

Practice and discipline.

1 question T18

Theosis vocabulary

Deification language or union with Christ.

1 question