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.

2 questions T02

Timing of end-times events

Tribulation and rapture questions, preterism.

2 questions T03

Age of the earth and days of creation

Literal days or other readings.

2 questions T04

Mode of baptism

Immersion, pouring, sprinkling.

2 questions T05

Frequency of communion

Weekly, monthly, quarterly.

2 questions T06

Atonement models beyond the core

Ransom, Christus Victor, recapitulation: emphasis and models.

2 questions T07

Order of decrees

Supra- or infralapsarianism.

2 questions T08

Origin of the soul

Traducianism or creationism.

2 questions T09

Intermediate state

The soul's state between death and resurrection.

3 questions T10

Final punishment

Eternal conscious punishment or annihilation.

2 questions T11

Universal restoration as a hope

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

2 questions T12

Spiritual gifts

Cessation or continuation.

2 questions T13

Sabbath and Lord's Day

Strict sabbatarian or not.

2 questions T14

Regulative or normative worship

Exclusive psalmody, instruments.

2 questions T15

Liturgical calendar

Observing feasts and seasons.

2 questions T16

Clerical celibacy

Discipline, not dogma.

2 questions T17

Fasting rules

Practice and discipline.

2 questions T18

Theosis vocabulary

Deification language or union with Christ.

2 questions T19

Image of God

Is the image lost or marred; original righteousness.

2 questions T20

Sword, magistracy and oaths

May Christians bear the sword, hold office and swear oaths?

2 questions T21

Women's ministries beyond the presbyterate

Deaconesses; women baptizing and teaching.

2 questions T22

Israel and the Church

Future conversion of Israel; the end of the ceremonial law.

2 questions T23

Admission to the Lord's Table

Who may receive: the baptized, the examined, infants?

2 questions T24

Liberty of conscience

Church precepts and the conscience; coercion in religion.

2 questions T25

Communion in both kinds; reservation and adoration

The cup for the laity; reserving and adoring the consecrated elements.

2 questions T26

Church discipline and shunning

Who excommunicates; avoiding the excommunicated.

2 questions T27

The law in the Christian life

Whether the moral law binds Christians; whether the justified keep it perfectly.

2 questions