Sentences with phrase «god by any merit»

Had Abram been beforehand with God by any merit of works?

Not exact matches

but Paul killed christians, so there is no man who by merit attains what God gives as grace and mercy.

By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.

The same thing followed throughout Biblical times, man tried earning redemption by own merits and efforts / works but could not keep God's Covenants & Law, man's efforts were not sufficient.

Or is the infusion decided upon by God, without reference to any merit on the part of the person?

These attacks are the act of people following Satan not God and those claiming responsibility for the attacks need to be recognized as agents of Satan — God did not cause these attacks — he judges each according to his merits — anyone that ridicules God or his prophets will be dealt with by him not humans — these attacks are the works of the followers of Satan.

I am a child of God, fallen, without merit, but saved by grace.

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

It is by the gift of God, not through our merit, that any of these things has come to us.

the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.

God's act is always primary and unconditioned by human merit.

«Our churches teach that people can not be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works,» Philip Melanchthon wrote in the Augsburg Confession.

The Thirty - Nine Articles of the Church of England say, «We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings.»

We agree that justification is not earned by any good works or merits of our own; it is entirely God's gift, conferred through the Father's sheer graciousness, out of the love that he bears us in his Son, who suffered on our behalf and rose from the dead for our justification.

One is Dr. Robert L. Calhoun in God and the Common Life, and the other is Dr. Emil Brunner in The Divine Imperative.18 It is instructive to examine these side by side, not only because both contain such great merits, but because taken together they strongly suggest that neither Calhoun's liberalism nor Brunner's neo-orthodoxy gives a wholly satisfactory foundation to the doctrine of vocation.

«We agree that justification is not earned by any good works or merits of our own; it is entirely God's gift... Faith is not merely intellectual assent but an act of the whole person, involving the mind, the will, and the affections, issuing in a changed life.

The Joint Declaration emphasizes, however, that God accepts us by grace alone through faith in Christ's saving deed and not on the basis of our merit.

This being said, the fact that Catholics retain the traditional designation of «merit» regarding the biblically attested «reward» of our good works by God becomes a matter of language only, not of doctrinal disagreement.

By analogy, if God accepts some on the basis of merit and others on the basis of forgiveness, the situation is similarly intolerable.

The word «God» exists, and this by itself merits consideration.

Shouldn't logic and reason be held with higher regard then belief for a god which based on our laws should have no impact on choices made by that person??? Why then do people vote on a religious basis and not merit, honor, and integrity?

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

It is not surprising, then, that the Bible does not account for God's choice of Israel by virtue of any superior quality, even while implying that some element of merit plays a role.

As a result, we are totally dependent upon God to initiate salvation for us, which He did in eternity past by choosing to save some, without any condition or merit on the part of those whom He chose (Unconditional Election).

In fact, to assert the opposite would itself be the worst form of ethnic chauvinism: the Bible makes it perfectly clear that there is nothing inherent in the Jews as a people or race by which they might have «merited» the election of God.

Given Aquinas's description of sin as a «disturbance of the divine order meriting punishment,» the presence of eternally sinning human beings indicates an eternally disturbed divine order, in which God «is forever unappeased by the punishment of the wicked.»

The staple of LCMS preaching was the three - point sermon: you have sinned and by that sin merited eternal separation from God; Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins; you should in grateful response strive to live in obedience to God's will.

I am in basic agreement with Calvinists that there is no good work by which a person may earn or merit eternal life from God.

The very merit we gain is of course due to our cooperation with the gifts of God's grace, as we say in the collect for the frst Sunday in Advent, «Grant almighty Father, that when Christ comes again we may go out to meet him, bearing the harvest of good works, achieved by your grace.»

And «It is given as a reward, promised by God Himself to be faithfully given to their good works and merits.»

When someone obeys God by faith, he is obeying — doing good works — not because he seeks merit but because he believes God's word and promises as accomplished facts.

The antithesis here seems to be between not faith and works but, by implication, grace and works; that is, the ground upon which God freely bestows his grace and gifts to men and what is apparently the (failing) attempts by men to earn that bestowal and ground the divine bestowal on merit.

The Council of Trent teaches that Our Lord Jesus Christ «By his most Holy Passion on the wood of the Cross has merited for us justification, and has made satisfaction for us to God the Father.»

For example, the Joint Declaration asserts, «We confess together: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquBy grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquby God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.»