Sentences with phrase «sheer unmerited»

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?

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Seeing himself a sinner who fell infinitely «short of the glory of God,» the salvation that Luther found through the redeeming death of Jesus Christ was for him a sheer gift of the most unmerited grace.