Sentences with phrase «unmerited grace of»

Justification is the unmerited grace of God conveyed to sinners by the atoning work of Christ.

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?

Not exact matches

Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»

He rightly speaks of the Christian concept of grace, unmerited favor and forgiveness, which is based upon our faith in Jesus as Redeemer, as motivating and even commanding our forgiveness of our unworthy neighbors.

I also hold that your definition of Grace is not sufficient in and of itself to dismiss «unmerited favor» I DO agree that it (unmerited favor) is also incomplete and a bit misleading.

The unmerited gift of the grace of God in spite of our rotten selves just seems too good to be true.

Lutherans speak of «growth in grace and faith,» with effects in Christian living; eternal life is, biblically speaking, «unmerited «reward,»» a fulfillment of God's promise to the believer.

The foundation of New Covenant forgiveness is God's love and grace which is unearned and unmerited.

The solution is grace, it is an act of unmerited mercy on God's part.

The grace that is an unmerited gift, and transforms the mere human to a child of God by a process of sanctification, has no place in such a theology.

Grace is the «unmerited favor of God.»

(Rom 5:5)» (On the Spirit and the Letter, 3.5) Grace and predestination have this difference, that predestination is the preparation, and grace the actual application, of God's unmerited Grace and predestination have this difference, that predestination is the preparation, and grace the actual application, of God's unmerited grace the actual application, of God's unmerited favor

Justification by grace signifies God's unconditional, unmerited, radical acceptance of the whole person: God, the Cosmic Lover, graciously embraces not just a person's disembodied spirit but the whole fleshly self — the meanings of which theology is only beginning to explore.

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.

Neither is faith or any works a matter of merit but all a matter of grace as both «unmerited favor» and «empowerment.

The whole world is being exposed to God's message of eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.

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?

In Luther's 1521 commentary on the Magnificat, Mary is the embodiment of God's unmerited grace.

Roman philosophers like Seneca and Cicero considered grace a virtue, and modern philosophers continue to study grace, defining it as an intentional act of unmerited favor, or as an inclination to promote others» interests and bring them joy.