Discipleship is built entirely on
the supernatural grace of God.
But it does require
the supernatural grace of God to live twenty - four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.
Not exact matches
I want to testify to the exact type
of situation... I had a2 demonic revelations... and in them I received a
supernatural premonition... and I have always thought it was
God in His
grace providing not only a miracle but also the recognition
of demonic activity.
This sacramental, salvific
grace gives the human being the Gift
of Faith,
supernatural Hope in
God's further gifts and divine Charity towards others.
Even fallen man is the suitable object
of God's
supernatural grace, a
grace that has operated even apart from any knowledge
of God's new act
of creation in Christ.
In the second,
God is related to his people on earth in the order
of grace, or
supernatural life.
The individual creation
of the soul and the gift
of grace which
God offers to it illustrate the second, or
supernatural way in which
God is related to the world.
I would be willing to be patient and pray that theists will have the
supernatural reality
of God and truth revealed in love,
grace and mercy... before it is too late for their eternal calling.
Until the gospel actually enters the historical situation
of a certain person, a non-Christian religion contains not only elements
of a natural knowledge
of God mixed with depravation caused by original sin and human elements, but also
supernatural elements
of grace.
All learning pointed, with the assistance
of revelation and
grace, toward the
supernatural source
of the world and reason and toward the
supernatural end
of humanity, which is the contemplation
of God.
Second, the act
of supernatural faith is a
grace that allows us to accept divine testimony with an unfailing certitude, by an act
of the will moved by charity, the love for
God poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Evangelical and Reformed Christians often express discomfort with Thomas» distinction between natural and
supernatural virtues, as they do with the parallel synergism
of Roman soteriology which suggests that we can contribute so much to our own salvation but must then wait for
God to complete it through his
grace.
Faith, sin, heaven, hell,
God and
grace» these are throwback ideas to a dark age
of supernatural mumbo jumbo and witch burnings, doomed to the dustbin
of history.
The inclination is controlled and directed by
grace, so that... it is the
supernatural condition
of being
grace - controlled and therefore
God controlled.»
Certainly the Bible bears witness to the wonderful works
of God, the signs and miracles
of His
grace, but it is anachronistic to read into these affirmations a much later understanding
of miracle, one which belongs particularly to the medieval view
of the interpenetration
of the two worlds — the natural and
supernatural.