1.1.     God is impersonal, a remote being, ‘way out there.

1.2.     God expects me to change before I am acceptable to Him.

1.3.     We must cooperate with God for our salvation because Scripture says everyone is to ‘work out your salvation with fear and trembling.’

1.4.     If I change my life, then God will forgive me.

1.5.     There is a limit to God’s forgiveness.

2.1.     Sin, by definition, is the way we break God’s commandments. 

2.2.  People are not born sinful.  They become sinful through the influence of the world, the devil, and their own sinful choices.

2.3.     Lutherans place too much emphasis on sin.

2.4.     God more often seems to be a God of wrath than a God of love.

2.5.     Repentance means being sorry you got caught.

3.1.     The doctrine of the Trinity has been created by human beings.  Belief in a ‘trinity’ is unthinkable.

3.2.     Science has proven that the world came into being through evolution.

3.3.     God the Father often takes away from us more than He gives to us.

3.4.     Since the Bible calls God ‘Father,’ all human beings are His children.

3.5.     Stories of angels are sweet fairy tales for children; a belief in devils is an outdated part of primitive folklore.  Neither angels nor devils are real.

4.1     Believing in Christ is the best way to attain eternal life.

4.2     Believing that Christ is the only way to heaven is a narrow point of view.

4.3     Christ was really more God than man, more divine than human.

4.4     Jesus is our helper and guide through life, an example to demonstrate for us what the Christian life is like.

4.5     Jesus descended into hell to take the eternal punishment we deserved.

5.1     The Holy Spirit is a kind of cosmic force or a universal wisdom that fills all people.

5.2     God does not force anyone to come to faith.  He gives each of us the choice to resist Him or to turn to Him.

5.3     We cooperate with the Holy Spirit in our conversion.

5.4     Pentecost was the birthday of the church.

5.5     Our love for God is the motive for all we do in our Christian life.

6.1     The church is a human institution, put together by human beings.

6.2     Members of the holy Christian church are all those who mentally assent to specific, key doctrines of the church.

6.3     The church should stress fellowship more, not just doctrines.

6.4     We should go to church to get something out of it.

6.5     We should give to the church because God needs our offerings.

7.1     Death is the will of God.

7.2     Death is a friend.

7.3     At death, Christians become angels, members of God’s heavenly host.

7.4     Eternity begins when we die.

7.5.   Even Christians should be afraid of Judgment Day.

Part Two

1.1     The Bible contains the Word of God.

1.2     You can make the Bible prove anything, because its teachings are really just a matter of interpretation.

1.3     The main point of the Bible is how to live a good life.

1.4     The New Testament is of more importance to us today than the Old Testament.

1.5     There are a lot of mistakes in the Bible.

2.1     Baptism is only a symbolic act.

2.2     By being baptized I obey God’s command and thereby earn His favor.  

2.3     Only those who understand the Christian faith should be baptized.

2.4     Since I’m baptized, I’m saved.

2.5     Unbaptized adults need not concern themselves about receiving Baptism, because a person can be saved just as well without Baptism.

3.1     The Lord’s Supper is a memorial meal that reminds Christians of Jesus’ death for us and all people.

3.2     Christians should come to the Lord’s Supper only if they feel worthy.

3.3     We should commune about four times a year.  If we commune too often, the sacrament will become less meaningful for us.

3.4     The Lord’s Supper is invalid if the pastor who celebrates it has no true faith or is living an immoral life.

3.5     One should be solemn when going to Communion.

4.1     Confession and absolution are optional practices for the Christian.

4.2     My confession of sins makes God’s forgiveness possible.

4.3     To be sure of forgiveness, the Christian needs to confess specific sins to the pastor.

4.4     If I examine myself carefully before Holy Communion, I don’t need private confession.

4.5     If a Christian feels no need for private confession, he or she can grow in faith just as well without it.

5.1     A Christian can always depend on prayer.

5.2     The Christian must have the wisdom and ability to pray properly.

5.3     When we pray, we inform God about our troubles.

5.4     After we pray, we should sit back and let God act in his own time.

5.5     Prayer changes things.

6.1     As long as I personally pray and read God’s Word every day, it’s not all that important that I worship God at church.

6.2     As long as I worship God in church every Sunday, it’s not all that important that I personally pray and study God’s Word each day.

6.3     The liturgy is a human invention, not of God.

6.4     As long as we’re speaking words from the Bible, our worship is bound to be Christian.

6.5     If I ‘don’t get anything out of’ liturgical worship, I should find another way to worship.

7.1     As we witness to the unconverted, the Scriptures are all we need to know.

7.2     Christ’s purpose for His people on earth is that we reach out to others to ‘save souls.’

7.3     The church building is here. We’ve done our evangelization.  People just need to come and hear.

7.4     We should just speak about God’s love to the unconverted.  A message of repentance for sin will turn them off.  

7.5     Evangelization is the pastor’s job and is best left to him and the evangelism committee.