No matter what, we are saved
my Gods good grace and our acceptance of this.
Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into
Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless
However, most christians believe that in order to be accepted into
gods good graces, you HAVE to accept him, or Jesus (I guess both) as their lord and savior, no if ands or buts.
Some christians believe that whether you believe or not, if you live a good and moral life you'll still be accepted into
gods good graces, this is their workaround for why, say Ghandi is still allowed into heaven and not in hel.l because he was a hindu.
Anything to stay in
their Gods good graces and not fall down amongst the casual show goers who are ridiculed and shunned at every opportunity.
Not exact matches
While it may take time and patience to get back into
good graces with the credit
gods, the path is simple.
«Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth» are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: «the written Word of
God; the life of
grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as
well as visible elements.
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where
God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing
good works to progress to be there and that
God's
grace comes after all we can do.
We are saved by
God's
grace, but we are given free will to choose
good and evil... otherwise anyone from Hitler to Stalin could of said the same words and say I can lie, cheat, steal, and kill right up to the end and be saved... sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Here is where people like myself generally part ways with most people in circles you may associate in: People like me struggle with sin, succeeding against it, at least in some measure for spaces in time, then failing again and ultimately casting ourselves upon
God's
grace, which is really
good — reassuring, restorative, revitalizing.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on
God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when
God's
grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with
God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on
God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a
better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
God honoring
good works only happen after a heart and mind are surrendered and transformed by the saving
grace of our Lord.
Moral of the story is we all need forgiveness.Sin is sin.We all need the mercy of
God.This man is on a quest to find that.Judge yourself.We are all sinners in need of a savior.You won't be able to say to
God on the day of judgment,
well at least I didn't shoot my brother in - law, therefore I should be allowed into heaven.You'll give an account for your life.I'm counting on
grace, not because I deserve it, but because of the high price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross.A debt I could not pay.
God sees all things... If you are
Good in life as HE was then ONE falls automatically in HIS
grace and so you can be assured to get the rewards HE promised.
Dreher is not wrong to alert us to the destructive power individualism and unbridled desire exert on the social fabric, but he would do even
better to recognize that, by
God's
grace, new forms of order manage to emerge out of the apparent chaos of social fragmentation.
By your standard, everyone might as
well live in hedonism and selfishness, since no one can be
good anyway and people are only saved by
God's
grace / mercy.
Thank
God you and I recognize and experience the absolute and complete
grace of
God, and our
good works should be evidence of that, not part of the price.
Babies who die before birth, as
well as children who have not reached an age of accountability when they die, are given
God's
grace and go to heaven.
Lamott said this isn't because she doesn't trust
God, «or
grace or
good orderly direction.»
Regarding your second fold,
God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His
Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (
God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «
Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.
I think the
best we can hope for is
grace; for
God to sanctify our race.
And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of
God's
grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as
well.
By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and
grace, and acceptance of
God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like th
God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty
god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like th
god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as
well: «
God is not like th
God is not like that!
«The
good news is that the reign of
God, present in Jesus Christ, has brought us all together under judgment and has in the same act brought us all together under
grace.
Besides, «
God giveth and
God taketh away», thereby killing people by «calling them home by his
grace and in his
good time», so why does it matter how they get there.
satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in
Gods eyes.They also were a threat to
Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is
well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows
Gods mercy
grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and
God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to
Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.
God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz
There is no need to do
good deeds, but to repent from certain sins and to believe in
God's
grace and love again.
The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but
Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our
good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve
Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not
better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by
grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is
better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz
First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing
good for
God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in
God's
good graces.
I bear witness that we can believe in the «right» things, that have all our doctrinal ducks in a row, but if our lives aren't icons of the incredible abundant and hospitable extravagance of our
God, if we aren't bearing
good fruit, if our roots aren't going down into the artesian
wells of renewal and redemption and restoration,
well, then, that is something but it is not
grace and it isn't a tree of life.
In Christ,
God graces us with forgiveness when we can not do the
good that we want to do, with rest when we can not bear the burden, with freedom to be who we are created to be.
I have been able to find the silver lining in all the things that have happened to me, but only because the love I know the Lord has for me lets me be in
God's
grace and keeps me
well adjusted.
We would proclaim the
good news that
God has purposes for the world and for each of us within it and that through
grace God makes the realization of those purposes possible.
However, despite their
best intentions, the confusion of matter and spirit that is common to their thought inevitably leads to the effective identification of
God and creation, of nature and
grace with far reaching consequences for the subversion of Catholic orthodoxy.
It is a continuous process of course but it comes from a place of truly grasping
God's love and
grace for us and trusting that He does know what is
best.
How I would love it if my mother could hear the
good,
good news that, «Jesus loves me, this I know...» And this, somehow - by
God's
grace - this finds its way into the pieces of herself that remain.
Thanks for risking the wrath of the moralists to bring clarity to the
good news of
God's
grace.
Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the
good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the
gods who are angry with us.
God is Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: Discipleship, eternal life, faith alone, faith and works, free
grace, glorification,
good works, gospel, justification
Yet this parable suggests that in the economy of
God's kingdom there is something
better than profit margin, greater than incentive and reward, more beautiful than a sharply run business — and that is abundant
grace.
It seems at first glance that understanding
God as love was simply a given, not requiring any special defense, because that love was so clearly manifest in the person of Jesus Christ as
well as in the
grace of redemption.
Job thought he had a
good case to argue before
God but the heart of it is our hearts are deceitfully wicked no matter how
good we have lived we are still sinners and certainly do not deserve the
grace of
God.In the book of Job there are some real jewels especially why we do suffer satans plan is to destroy us but
Gods plan is to build our faith hope and love towards him in our time of suffering.brentnz
The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent
good —
grace, beauty,
God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)
«But for the
Grace of
God» simply reminds us that we're not different or
better than the next drunk — just luckier.
* be guided and instructed by the
Good News message, which is: ----
God is unconditional boundless
grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ----
God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of
God.
Well, first of all, because
God is a
grace wholesaler.
The priority of
grace is unquestionable, but what we have become by
grace through faith should result in
good works for
God's glory and in the service of our fellows.
If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of
God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so
well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and
grace of
God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.
We will teach as
good teachers who resemble Christ, the Teacher.18 Then, we will effectively proclaim the joy of the
good news of marriage and the family, asking married people to be open to conversion and to
God's
grace and mercy.
and so this New Covenant birth, on one of
grace, mercy and love, and it is
better than the old testament in this way, because like the rainbow was a sign that
God would never flood the earth again wiping us out, so too Christ lifts the O.T. curse that was a result of sin.