Sentences with phrase «salvation by grace»

Tell the story of the amazing salvation by grace through faith.

Evangelicalism is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace (God's undeserved and unearned gift); whereas religion is based on good works.

In theological terms, this is the essence of the experience of salvation by grace through faith (see Eph.

We can approach it through the new way in which the love of God and the loves of men come to be understood within the affirmation of salvation by grace alone.

The RCC doesn't believe in salvation by grace alone, direct access to God and the Genesis account of Creation; but it does believe in works, earthly mediators and evolution.

My dad had a strong religious formation in his youth, and he held firmly Lutheran views on things such as the priesthood of all believers and salvation by grace through faith.

To me, as a Christian believer in salvation by grace, it seems important to say that compassionate Wisdom works in us in many ways and uses many means.

These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.

The rest of us proclaiming to be Christian just accept the salvation by grace alone formula, and all of us «fall short of the glory of God.»

Perhaps liberal churches have made too much of the Calvinist work ethic, of salvation through works rather than salvation by grace alone.

At the close of two weeks of daily growth group sessions, participants in one workshop could identify these biblical themes in their shared experiences: bondage and liberation, salvation by grace, judgment, death and rebirth, alienation and reconciliation, mutual caring, the transforming power of love, becoming a spiritual unity, growth.

Niebuhr affirmed that the Christian doctrine of salvation by grace was the only cure for original sin.

So when a Mormon speaks of salvation by grace, he is usually referring to universal resurrection.

To affirm the sovereignty of God and salvation by grace means precisely that we have no self - evident and infallible bridge between heaven and earth other than God's saving work in Israel and Jesus Christ.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

This one - sided perspective led him to ignore how intimately interrelated were the traditional concepts of foreknowledge, sovereignty of God, and salvation by grace alone.

I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who argued for salvation by grace against a salvation by works Gospel, who argued for Jesus as the son of God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «God's» created beings.

As we have said before, this is what has been described in religious terms as «salvation by grace through faith.»

salvation by grace, not by the law, is a basic tenant of the faith.

I can think of no other way it can be, unless like I stated before, there is some «line» we can cross, which to me would nullify salvation by grace and make it by works.

I don't consider non-Calvinists heretics, but brothers and sisters in Christ if they teach salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ.

God has offered us salvation by His grace, and the rest of Ephesians 2:8 - 9 tell us how to receive this incredible gift of salvation, this regeneration, resurrection and reigning that comes from Jesus Christ.

I find it ironic that Calvinists I know always sum up with the «salvation by grace alone through faith alone» and then have their own interpretation of what God's grace is.

The first is that this salvation by grace package comes to us through faith.

Not exact matches

We understand the statement that «we are justified by grace through faith because of Christ» in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ, leading to full assurance of eternal salvation; we seek to testify in all circumstances and contexts to this, the historic Protestant understanding of salvation by faith alone (sola fide).

Fourth, there is falling from grace, the natural result of teaching salvation by works.

The sacramental baptism confirms the doctrine of salvation by faith and grace alone.

We've seen what Paul means by salvation, but what is grace?

And all of this wonderful, matchless, priceless salvation is, according to Ephesians 2:5 and 8, by grace.

We are saved by the grace of God and can add nothing to what God has already done for us we can not earn our salvation nor do we deserve it but God does require something of us and that is that we believe in his son as our saviour and Lord and that we acknowledge our sin repent and chose to follow him with all our heart.brentnz

God, by His grace, freely offers us salvation.

And though some claim that the «gift» which Paul refers to in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 is faith, the Greek word «that» («that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God) is neuter and the Greek word for «faith» is feminine, which means the gift of God is not faith, but rather the entire «salvation package» which originated with God (i.e, «by grace you have been saved»).

After a brief explanation about what this life in Christ, this «salvation» entails (Ephesians 2:6 - 7), Paul picks back up the «by grace you have been saved» statement in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 and explains it further.

For me, we receive the free gift of salvation by God's grace through faith.

Now if we're saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, what happens to those who add works into salvation?

He gives the salvation package — from sin and death and slavery to exaltation in the heavens (Ephesians 2:1 - 3, 6 - 7)-- freely, by His grace, without any human works, effort, or sacrifice involved.

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

«There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do;....

(I hear so many Christians that take v 13 as a comforting promise, when in actuality it is a most solemn warning — God has made salvation available by His extension of Grace through faith that He enables in us by revealing Himself to us.

If we are able to sing those words lustily, let it be because we are seduced by the grandeur and grace of the salvation she describes, but let it also join us to those who yearn for a turning of the socioeconomic tables.

The original form of Jesus has disappeared from view, transcendence has been swallowed up by immanence, the events of our salvation history have passed into the dead and lifeless moments of an irrevocable past, no heaven can appear above the infinite stretches of a purely exterior spatiality, and no grace can appear within the isolated subjectivity of a momentary consciousness.

For the self - realization of the formerly anonymous Christianity is demanded, first, by the incarnational and social structure of grace and Christianity, and, secondly, by the fact that a clearer and more reflected comprehension of Christianity offers a greater chance of salvation to the individual than his status as an anonymous Christian.

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

God shows his mercy and love to all, but He only gives grace to those who receive the free gift of salvation by faith.

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

So far as any person is concerned, «so perfectly free is the power of moral causation which is bestowed upon him through the redemption wrought by Christ, that notwithstanding all this prevenient and assisting grace he is himself emphatically a causal agent in his own salvation» (FG 60f).

God's people didn't know how all the details would fall into place, and they didn't exactly know that He was coming to only set up a Kingdom of Heaven, not a kingdom of the earth and flesh, but they were led by God's grace to trust Him toward their justification, righteousness, and salvation.