RLGN 104 MAIN EXAMINATION 2026 SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Principles of Enslavement - ✔✔Will it bring me into bondage?
✔✔Principles of Equivocation - ✔✔Will it hypocritically cover my sins?
✔✔Principles of Encroachment - ✔✔Will it violate the Lordship of Christ in my life?
✔✔Principles of Example - ✔✔Will It help other Christians by its example?
✔✔Principles of Evangelism - ✔✔Will it lead others to Christ?
✔✔Principles of Emulation - ✔✔Would Jesus do it?
✔✔Principles of Exaltation - ✔✔Will it glorify God?
✔✔Antinomianism - ✔✔The belief that Gospel frees Christians from required obedience
to any law
✔✔Egoism - ✔✔Self-interest or personal happiness should be the goal of all actions
✔✔Proof-Texting - ✔✔an abuse of scripture (taking the Bible out of context to fit our
lives)
✔✔Legalism - ✔✔an abuse of scripture, elevating man's law to God's law, esp. in the
area of salvation; making human preferences to equal God's truth.
✔✔Essentialism - ✔✔A. God is unchanging in His essential nature
B. God's essential nature is perfect holiness and love
C. Whatever God wills flows from His nature
Definition - the root word here is "essence". What is good and right flows from the
"essence" or fundamental nature of God.
Characteristics of who God is.
(DNA) - Divinity, Nature, Attributes
✔✔Traditional Tolerance - ✔✔Tolerance should be viewed in reference to how we
respond to people we disagree with, not how we respond to the ideas we think are false
✔✔New Tolerance - ✔✔To be truly tolerant, you must agree that another person's
position is just as valid as your own. You must give your approved, your endorsement,
your sincere support, to their beliefs and behaviors.
, ✔✔Stereotyping - ✔✔A (usually negative) over-generalization about a certain people
group as a whole based on the unaccepted behavior of a few members of that group.
✔✔Prejudice - ✔✔thinking in a negative way about someone because he/she happens
to be from a stereotyped group
✔✔Discrimination - ✔✔Unequal treatment of a person on the basis of his/ her people
group membership
✔✔Roe v. Wade - ✔✔***Decided: January 22 1973***
Main ruling: Lifted bans in all 50 states. A woman's "right to privacy" extends to her
liberty to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Also: The unborn are not "persons" and thus ineligible for for constitutional protection.
✔✔Doe v. Bolton - ✔✔***Decided: January 22, 1973****
Main Ruling: It expanded the definition of the "health" of the mother to include familial,
financial, and psychological issues etc. as determined by the woman's doctor.
DOE: (She was a mentally ill woman)
✔✔Griswold v. Connecticut - ✔✔Decided June 7 1965
Right to privacy in marital relations:
(Griswold was a planned parenthood director who gave a couple information and was
arrested for that.)
✔✔Eisenstadt v. Bard - ✔✔Decided March 22 1872
Right to privacy single relations:
(The constitution does not separate the single from the married. Eisenstadt was a
college professor who gave birth control to one of his students)
✔✔Baby Doe - ✔✔Baby had down syndrome and detached esophagus. Mother couldn't
abort it because it was already born. Had the right to deny surgery for detached
esophagus and they let the baby die.
✔✔Cruzan V. Missouri - ✔✔1983-1990
-in a car crash and needed a feeding tube
-parents wanted feeding tube removed
-supreme court denied because they didn't know what Nancy wanted
-2 college friends said they "knew" what Nancy wanted, feeding tube removed
✔✔Planned Parenthood v. Casey - ✔✔Decided: 1992
Main Ruling: Discarded 3 trimesters of Roe and focused on the "VIABILITY" of the fetus
as the determining point where a state's interest in unborn life begins.
✔✔Norma McCorvey - ✔✔Original litigant (a person involved in a lawsuit) in Roe who,
today, is an outspoken opponent of abortion
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Principles of Enslavement - ✔✔Will it bring me into bondage?
✔✔Principles of Equivocation - ✔✔Will it hypocritically cover my sins?
✔✔Principles of Encroachment - ✔✔Will it violate the Lordship of Christ in my life?
✔✔Principles of Example - ✔✔Will It help other Christians by its example?
✔✔Principles of Evangelism - ✔✔Will it lead others to Christ?
✔✔Principles of Emulation - ✔✔Would Jesus do it?
✔✔Principles of Exaltation - ✔✔Will it glorify God?
✔✔Antinomianism - ✔✔The belief that Gospel frees Christians from required obedience
to any law
✔✔Egoism - ✔✔Self-interest or personal happiness should be the goal of all actions
✔✔Proof-Texting - ✔✔an abuse of scripture (taking the Bible out of context to fit our
lives)
✔✔Legalism - ✔✔an abuse of scripture, elevating man's law to God's law, esp. in the
area of salvation; making human preferences to equal God's truth.
✔✔Essentialism - ✔✔A. God is unchanging in His essential nature
B. God's essential nature is perfect holiness and love
C. Whatever God wills flows from His nature
Definition - the root word here is "essence". What is good and right flows from the
"essence" or fundamental nature of God.
Characteristics of who God is.
(DNA) - Divinity, Nature, Attributes
✔✔Traditional Tolerance - ✔✔Tolerance should be viewed in reference to how we
respond to people we disagree with, not how we respond to the ideas we think are false
✔✔New Tolerance - ✔✔To be truly tolerant, you must agree that another person's
position is just as valid as your own. You must give your approved, your endorsement,
your sincere support, to their beliefs and behaviors.
, ✔✔Stereotyping - ✔✔A (usually negative) over-generalization about a certain people
group as a whole based on the unaccepted behavior of a few members of that group.
✔✔Prejudice - ✔✔thinking in a negative way about someone because he/she happens
to be from a stereotyped group
✔✔Discrimination - ✔✔Unequal treatment of a person on the basis of his/ her people
group membership
✔✔Roe v. Wade - ✔✔***Decided: January 22 1973***
Main ruling: Lifted bans in all 50 states. A woman's "right to privacy" extends to her
liberty to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Also: The unborn are not "persons" and thus ineligible for for constitutional protection.
✔✔Doe v. Bolton - ✔✔***Decided: January 22, 1973****
Main Ruling: It expanded the definition of the "health" of the mother to include familial,
financial, and psychological issues etc. as determined by the woman's doctor.
DOE: (She was a mentally ill woman)
✔✔Griswold v. Connecticut - ✔✔Decided June 7 1965
Right to privacy in marital relations:
(Griswold was a planned parenthood director who gave a couple information and was
arrested for that.)
✔✔Eisenstadt v. Bard - ✔✔Decided March 22 1872
Right to privacy single relations:
(The constitution does not separate the single from the married. Eisenstadt was a
college professor who gave birth control to one of his students)
✔✔Baby Doe - ✔✔Baby had down syndrome and detached esophagus. Mother couldn't
abort it because it was already born. Had the right to deny surgery for detached
esophagus and they let the baby die.
✔✔Cruzan V. Missouri - ✔✔1983-1990
-in a car crash and needed a feeding tube
-parents wanted feeding tube removed
-supreme court denied because they didn't know what Nancy wanted
-2 college friends said they "knew" what Nancy wanted, feeding tube removed
✔✔Planned Parenthood v. Casey - ✔✔Decided: 1992
Main Ruling: Discarded 3 trimesters of Roe and focused on the "VIABILITY" of the fetus
as the determining point where a state's interest in unborn life begins.
✔✔Norma McCorvey - ✔✔Original litigant (a person involved in a lawsuit) in Roe who,
today, is an outspoken opponent of abortion
