Total Depravity Quiz - Questions
1) When God made man, what was His view of him?
a. Man was neither good nor bad
b. Man was good
c. God expressed no view
d. Man was flawed
2) What did Adam and Eve do to change God's view of them?
a. They did nothing wrong
b. They tried to cover themselves with fig leaves
c. They ate the fruit that God had forbidden them to eat
d. They hid themselves from God
3) How does Adam's sin affect people today?
a. They must do good deeds to make up for Adam's sins
b. Man is still good and Adam's sin has had no lasting effects
c. They need to go to church regularly so He will be pleased with them
d. God counts people guilty of Adam's sin and places them under the same sentence of death
4) How many people have been affected by Adam's sin?
a. None
b. Everyone who has ever lived, excluding Christ
c. Just the people who don't go to church
d. Just the people who don't make an effort to do good
5) At what point in people's lives do they become sinners?
a. From birth
b. At the age of understanding
c. From conception
d. When they are old enough to stand on their own feet
6) What parts of man are affected by sin?
a. Just the body
b. Every part
c. Just the mind and the heart
d. Just the will
7) What are the spiritual symptoms of this sin in us?
a. Spiritual blindness
b. Spiritual deafness
c. Spiritual deadness
d. All of the above
8) Who is our master all the time we are in this condition?
a. We are our own masters - this is true freedom
b. God is our Master
c. None of these
d. We are slaves to sin and to Satan
9) How does God regard us while we are in this state?
a. He hates us - we are His enemies
b. He loves all of us enough to save us all
c. He has no interest in us one way or another
d. He tolerates us as His mischievous children
10) What can we do to change our situation before God?
a. We need to make sure our good deeds outweigh the bad ones
b. We don't need to do anything - God will accept us anyway
c. We can do nothing to change ourselves - we are hopeless
d. Reading the Bible, praying and going to church should count for something
11) Does this mean we cannot even choose to become Christians without God's help?
a. No - despite all our sin, we can still do this
b. On a good day we can choose God but not when we are having a bad day
c. None of the above
d. Yes - we cannot come to God by our own efforts or choosing
12) But doesn't this mean that everyone is as bad as they could be? So how can there be relatively good things in the world?
a. Yes - the Bible teaches that we are all as bad as can be
b. No - the Bible teaches that every part of us is affected by sin but that God restrains our sin to varying degrees so that we are not as bad as we could be
c. We are neither good nor bad but are capable of doing both
d. There is no such thing as absolute good and evil - it's all relative
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