Sentences with phrase «unmerited grace»

"Unmerited grace" refers to receiving kindness, forgiveness, or blessings even though we don't deserve or earn them. It is a gift or favor given to us without any reason to justify it. Full definition
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?
Protestants may make this case against eugenics by emphasizing unmerited grace.
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.
And while unmerited grace is great news for all of us, actually replicating such grace - filled reception of others can be a bit more challenging.
Who wouldn't find the story of unmerited grace from an ever - loving father, one who pursues the wayward and the faithful equally, to be comforting?
I would say that real love is learned from understanding forgiveness, unmerited grace, and mercy.
Unmerited grace that we receive and that we in turn give to others, whether they agree with us or not, whether they are lovely or not.
Unmerited grace.
b) we're finite, but we've learned more about God's character this way c) God planned to use our self - rendered destruction to demonstrate his unmerited grace that we would not otherwise personally comprehend as finite creatures
He started and founded his church in Atlanta as a church for the unchurched, and the key to this, he says, is unlimited, unmerited grace.
This same tension crops up in the Protestant Reformation, with Martin Luther's juxtaposition of Law and Gospel (reflected in his quasi «Marcionite view that the Old Testament condemns the sinner while the New Testament proclaims a message of unmerited grace), as against John Calvin's much more positive view of Old Testament Law, a code that in fact became the legal basis for his theocracy in Geneva.
I believe in the Godhead, and that Christ is the only way to salvation, unmerited grace, and yada yada yada.
Justification is the unmerited grace of God conveyed to sinners by the atoning work of Christ.
In Luther's 1521 commentary on the Magnificat, Mary is the embodiment of God's unmerited grace.
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