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Ask Randy Alcorn (Brannon Howse Interviews Randy on a Variety of Topics)

Ask Randy Alcorn

Overview Quiz

1. What struck Alcorn about Revelation 21 and 22 as he read them? *

A. How vague and symbolic they were

B. How tangible and physical they were

C. How brief the chapters were

D. How rarely they mention God

2. What does Alcorn say is the believer's ultimate hope? *

A. Bodily resurrection on a new earth

B. Becoming a spirit without a body

C. Absorption into a cosmic mind

D. Endless rest without activity

3. What parallel does Alcorn draw for how the new earth comes about? *

A. Like a house being repainted

B. Like a seed never planted

C. Like a river drying up

D. Like the resurrection of our bodies

4. What principle does Alcorn use to picture life in heaven? *

A. Heaven is wholly unknowable

B. We should not think about it at all

C. The new earth gives us a reference point

D. It will be nothing like earthly life

5. From Revelation 6, what does Alcorn conclude about people in the present heaven? *

A. They are asleep until the resurrection

B. They have forgotten their earthly lives

C. They cannot perceive anything

D. They are conscious, thinking, and feeling

6. Which book does Alcorn name as teaching universalism? *

A. Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology

B. Rob Bell's Love Wins

C. His own book Heaven

D. C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle

7. How does Alcorn describe open theism? *

A. The belief that God does not foreknow free choices

B. The belief that God controls every choice

C. The belief that God does not exist

D. The belief that God changes the past

8. What does "chronological snobbery" mean, in the C.S. Lewis phrase Alcorn cites? *

A. Respecting only ancient writers

B. Ignoring the passage of time

C. Assuming whatever is newest is best

D. Preferring long books to short ones

9. Which verse anchors Alcorn's teaching on money? *

A. Genesis 1:1

B. 1 Timothy 6:6, godliness with contentment

C. John 3:16

D. Psalm 23:1

10. How does Alcorn turn around the problem of evil? *

A. He denies that evil is real

B. He says the question may not be asked

C. He asks which worldview better explains good and evil

D. He says suffering has no purpose

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