Sentences with phrase «salvation by works»

Among other things, there are the doctrines that seem to promote salvation by works rather than grace.

A few argue that faith is a work, and so simply by making faith a human condition for salvation, we are making salvation by works.

At what point does the desire to do good cross the line into salvation by works?

Pelagianism Augustine accused Pelagius of teaching salvation by works Western Christians are obsessed with not being saved by works Western Christians deemphasize ascetic disciplines and exercises Spirituality becomes a set of mental acts Salvation is rescue from hell, rather than transformation into glory Determinism enters some parts of western theology from Manichaeism through Augustine

A doctrine of Purgatory as punishment is certainly vulnerable to the charge of creating salvation by works rather than grace, and in my view the reformers were correct to reject it.

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

NO SIR NO WAY Pastor FedEx repentance and faith are evidence of salvation the point of James 2 is that faith is evidence of Salvation I DO NOT BELIEVE IN SALVATION BY WORKS BUT RATHER THAT WORKS ARE THE EVIDENCE OF SALVATION

At the heart of Arminianism is salvation by works, the idea man must work to be saved and to go to Heaven.

Also, the idea of enduring to the end is salvation by works, pre and simple.

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.

In one long sentence, he has told us that our future is secure by the promise of the Father, we have salvation by the work of the Son, and as a guarantee, we have a sealing, or a deposit in the form of the Holy Spirit.

They're not arguing that Paul is really preaching «salvation by works», the critical point is what Paul means by «works».

I have asked God for clear understanding on baptism MANY times and still find myself in a pickle over it so conclusion is «do what they that were mentioned as saved did» I already TRUST IN CHRIST as my savior, knowing I can not earn my salvation by works or deeds.

In this context, there is a huge pressure to start believing that our essential worth is bound up with what we do, that we gain significance from success — salvation by works.

Hence it is as a disciple of Paul and Luther that Bultmann opposes justification by faith to salvation by works.

It seems a small issue but when we look at all the false teachings that arise from it: salvation by works, baptism in the Holy Spirit requiring «sign» gifts, denying the trinity, whom is actually saved... It doesn't take long until the foxes have spoiled the grapes entirely.

• They do not accept that our relationship to Jesus Christ is a reality «by grace through faith» alone, but promote instead a salvation by works.