Forgiveness based on behavior is not God's
free gift of grace but works and is no Gospel at all, leaving no hope.
To all of those who refuse
His free gift of grace, they will suffer an eternity in hell, thereby bringing glory to God by demonstrating His divine justice.
To Kent - I don't think Christians think they are better than you, I think we just really want you to have
the free gift of grace and forgiveness.
And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received
the free gift of grace.
Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead accept God's
free gifts of grace and forg... More
Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead accept God's
free gifts of grace and forgiveness.
Not exact matches
He means that if
free will first existed on its own and subsequently encountered God's
grace, then
free will might collide with
grace, but in fact our being
free at all is itself a
gift of God's
grace, and so there is no possible antagonism between the two.
To receive the
free gift of eternal life by
grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
It is a
free gift of God, offered by
grace alone, through our faith alone.
For me, we receive the
free gift of salvation by God's
grace through faith.
Karl Rahner, for example, states: «The leisure
of the Muse is
free fall, the unplanned and unpredictable, confident surrender to the uncontrollable forces
of existence, waiting for the irruption
of the incalculable
gift, the reception
of grace, the aimless but meaningless hour» (Theological Investigations, trans.
On the contrary, man's
free response to God is itself again the
gift of God's
grace.
It's a
free gift of God's
grace for all the people
of God.
He can — out
of his mercy and love — offer to
free you from this punishment — which is what He offered through Jesus Christ — but He can not force you to accept the offer — He can not force
grace upon you, just like you can not force someone to accept a
free gift.
God shows his mercy and love to all, but He only gives
grace to those who receive the
free gift of salvation by faith.
Eternal life is a
free gift of God's
grace to all who simply believe in Jesus Christ.»
It is the
free gift of God's
grace who «shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.»
i do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or
Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and H
Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the
free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and He
free gift of righteousness by
grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and H
grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am
Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and He
Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews
For most Christians, salvation is an act
of grace, which is a
free gift of God.
God's act
of justification by
grace enables persons to switch worlds, to leave that culture
of death and to enter a world always intended by God for people (the new creation), founded on the total and entirely
free gift from God (justification by
grace).
Some believers had interpreted the
free gift of forgiveness in Christ as an excuse to continue in sin «that
grace may abound.»
The Calvinists on the other hand have their particular bias, precedence,
of man having no inherent -
free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their ideas
of unconditional election and irresistible
grace.
The Arminians have their particular bias, precedence, that initially fallen man did not have inherent -
free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their idea
of universal prevenient
grace that gave all
of fallen mankind a
free will capacity (at some time after the fall) to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts.
This kind
of forgiveness is a
free gift of God to every single person on earth, emanating purely from God's love and
grace.
True, the
free act by which God's self - communication is accepted is itself the
gift of God and can only be realized as
grace.
[8] These are two separate
gifts which logically precede and make possible the actual
gift of grace offered to man's
free will.
Obviously it's my faith I'm sharing but more importantly it's accessible due to Gods
gift of Grace being
free to any who believe.
There are many wrong teaching out there that mixed up and confused the law
of Moses with the abundance
of grace and the
gift of righteousness, a
free gift given by Jesus Christ.
And so God gave it to us,
free of charge, as a
free gift, simply out
of his
grace.
I have been a proponent
of the radical
free grace of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get eternal life as a completely
free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have eternal life.
Thankfully, God has provided an antidote to legalism through the
free gift of eternal life which is received by
grace along through faith alone in Christ alone.
It is only to say that this is the realm
of grace in which we are surprised by
free gifts.
The
free gift of eternal life is given completely by God's
grace.
For its only love and
grace that truly sets us
free from the power
of the law and the orphaned heart
of leaders who don't understand that it isn't their
gifts, title, or works that make them acceptable to God, but the sacrificial love
of Jesus.
Those who have not known this (and this is only knowable by God's
grace, his
free gift of revealing his love to us), have not known what is mostly deeply human about them.
So, for example, to the important point that God's
grace is a
free gift, the scriptures propose the historical truth
of Christ's deathand so lead us to the theological conclusion that God has in fact chosen to pour out his
gifts for all.
I believe that eternal life is a
free gift of God's
grace to anyone and everyone who simply and only believes in Jesus for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47; etc.).
It is God's
grace, God's
free gift of self, God's concrete presence which we experience.
We believe individuals are saved by
grace through faith and that baptism is the outward sign
of one's acceptance
of the
free, undeserved
gift of salvation.