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What is 'faith alone'?
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Corinth77777
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I like how DW puts it in so many words..grace is God doing what we cannot do on our own.
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Real grace that cost God his only legitimate son, not "hyper grace" as a therapy session that absolves your guilt, and certainly not lawlessness.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? (Rom. 6:1-2)
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. (Rom. 7:7)
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Grace is the gift of God. For it i9s by Grace we have been saved. a Completed action.
But God will not force it on you.. nor keep it from you. He came so you can see, and gave you the word that you can believe.
Its not by works of righteousness which we have done.. But it is By Gods mercy.
He came into his own but his own received him not. But as many as have received him, to THEM he gave the right or power to become sons of God. Through faith.
There are no works involved. Justification is a term which means made righteous, or declared innocent. And it is through faith we are justified. Free to us, but paid by the blood of God himself.
As paul said. If abraham was found by works. he has something to boast. But not before God. This same chapter in (romans 4) says we today are saved by this same faith. Knowing God can and will do what he promised. based on our hope.
If we are trying to get to God based on works. Our hope is in self.. Good luck with this.
Is your Hope in God. his work. Or in your own works..
But God will not force it on you.. nor keep it from you. He came so you can see, and gave you the word that you can believe.
Its not by works of righteousness which we have done.. But it is By Gods mercy.
He came into his own but his own received him not. But as many as have received him, to THEM he gave the right or power to become sons of God. Through faith.
There are no works involved. Justification is a term which means made righteous, or declared innocent. And it is through faith we are justified. Free to us, but paid by the blood of God himself.
As paul said. If abraham was found by works. he has something to boast. But not before God. This same chapter in (romans 4) says we today are saved by this same faith. Knowing God can and will do what he promised. based on our hope.
If we are trying to get to God based on works. Our hope is in self.. Good luck with this.
Is your Hope in God. his work. Or in your own works..
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The way we become born again is we obey the truth (gospel) through the Spirit.
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 1 Peter 1:22-23
It is us who does the work of obeying the truth, by God’s grace, His Spirit; the Spirit of grace.
That’s what grace is, the Holy Spirit, that enables us to obey.
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Yes obey the Gospel; the gospel command repent.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-10
- and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Confessing Jesus as Lord is the confession of faith by which we are saved.
Confessing Jesus as LORD is how we obey the Gospel command to repent.
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Yes sir. I have encountered this much.
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This is one of the biggest misconceptions. The word "torah" priminarily means teaching or instruction, not law or regulation, it was the Pharisees and Sadduccees that turned those into laws and regulations. For example, Sabbath was originally a blessing, a day of rest for recuperation, reflection and preparation, Pharisees and Sadduccees turned it into a curse. In this sense, obedience means discipline, doing things by the book. If you're a trained expert of any skill, you do things by the book, you operate according to the instuctions, not on your own whims; if you're a master, you'd have these rules internalized in your muscle memory, you don't need to be told what to do or how to do, you automatically does it, and you're able to instruct others. By no means is that "legalism".
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Beware, best liars always tell the truth, that means they lie by omission and/or dilute with irrelevant contents. I think "in faith alone" is an example, as the full doctrine is "salvation by GRACE (undeserved favor from God) through faith (in Christ) alone", and that faith is tested through work. Without work, faith either withers away in the sun or gets choked up by the thorns, as illustrated in the parable of the sower. That's NOT "adding" work on top of faith.
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That parable is about real faith vs various types of false faith.
As I've stated before the word believe as used in the new Testament means to start believing and to keep on believing. And that believing is not intellectual accent to facts but it is a matter of trusting.
Works aren't required for salvation they are fruit of salvation.
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We're talking about the parable of the Sower, not the parable of wheats and tares. The faith is true in all four scenarios, the difference is the reception and outcome.
Nope... only the good ground was analogous to a believer..
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I don't think so. I believe only the first type is a lost cause, the shallow ground and the thorny ground can be converted. In fact, those are the vast majority of the mission field. When Jesus was arrested, all disciples "forsook him and fled away," weren't they shallow/stony soils?
But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. (Matt. 13:20-21)
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