For Christian true believers: are we saved by Grace or Works… or both?

Question

Quote scriptures all you want, but be sure to reference the Book of James.

Answer 1

Actually, I am studying that in church right now and that is a common question that many people ask. We are saved by both grace and works. If you are asking what really saves us, it is God's grace but we have to have works to even receive that grace. God's grace saves us because nobody on earth today deserves to be saved, but because of God's grace, we have the opportunity to get saved, but only if we have the works. I hope I didn't confuse you too much, in conclusion, we must do the works to receive the grace

Answer 2

People are saved by Grace, alone, apart from works or anything else.

If anyone wants to suggest that they need to DO something in order to be found worthy, or to take advantage of God's grace - then what they are really saying is that what Christ did on the cross was insuffcent - not enough - and that Christ needs their help in order to save them.

That is a pretty insulting idea.

Quite scripture all you want - shoot as many bible bullits as you will - but you cannot get around that fact.

Yes - Christians DO - do works - but not in order to acheave salvation.

Salvation is the beginning of the Christian life - NOT the end product of it.

Answer 3

Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to please God. A good definition of faith is:

Believing the facts of the bible.
Trusting the promises.
Obeying the commands.

James 2:14-26
You can have a living faith or a dead faith. Faith ALONE cannot save you !
( Faith & deeds are like breathing IN & OUT, you must do both to live. Neither one can stand alone.)

GOOD WORKS:

Ephesians 2:8-10
Again the bible makes the point that good works in itself cannot save us. It is definitely by God's grace and love that we are saved.

That does not mean, however, that Christians have no responsibilities. God has prepared GOOD WORKS for us to do as His disciples:

Helping the poor.
Making disciples.
Caring for each other etc....
Titus 3:8
Christians need to be DEVOTED to doing what is good.

1Timothy 6:17-19
Christians need to be generous and RICH IN GOOD DEEDS.

GRACE

Titus 3:3-7
We are saved not because of our own righteous deeds, but by God's mercy.

Grace puts us in a position where it is JUST-AS-IF-I'D (justified) never sinned.
1 Corinth.15:9-11
Grace must have an EFFECT on your life. It should motivate to work very hard at serving God because of your gratefulness.

Titus 2:11-14
It is because of grace that we STRIVE to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.

Matthew 18:21-35
God's grace MUST teach us to forgive those who sin against us. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO ABUSE GOD'S GRACE !

Jude 4
Some people use grace as a license to sin.
Their condemnation was written about long ago !
Hebrews 10:26-31
Some people insult the spirit of grace by deliberately continuing to sin.
Doing this is trampling the son of God underfoot & treating as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant.
There is no forgiveness for such people.

Answer 4

Reference James indeed.... We are saved by grace through faith... lest any should boast.

James is stateing that once one is saved the worldly testimony of that Salvation is/are the works done in Christs name.... NOT that works save. First Salvation and then works.

I did no works to be saved... I did not even own a bible on the day of my Salvation.

I did not know nuth'n about James or Grace by Faith or none of that....I just answered God's Call in TheWay He proscribes... I now try as best I can to work accourding to His Will for me... But no Work saved me... or will save anyone else...

Answer 5

We are saved by grace and not by the works. If works alone then we could boast. But Faith without works is not faith at all. A believers action are how you judge if they are real or not. If their faith is true their actions, their works speak for them. If something is said about it they shy away from it like its not big deal. That is how you know. If they want you to see what they are going and make big deal about it then question if they are real or not.

Grace through faith is how believers are saved. But the faith has to be there, works along are nothing.

Answer 6

You are saved by making God your King, and doing His will in every area of your life. If grace is real, then it can't be based on sacrifice. Then it wouldn't be grace, it would have been paid for. No one buys their way into God's Kingdom. We are invited in freely. We must know Him, and submit to His will. Works are the fruit of the Spirit. You can talk about being saved all day, but if you are living only for yourself, there is no evidence of your conversion. It says we will be rewarded according to our works, not according to our faith.

Answer 7

That replaced into looooong. LOL i wish you do not ideas that I skimmed. The Bible makes it sparkling that when someone is kept they are continually kept. once you've faith, you're placed in God's hand and no individual, not even your self, can pluck you from God's hand. once you're kept, God promises the Holy Spirit, and He gained't take Him remote from you! There are not any verses that uphold the placement of those who believe you could lose your salvation. None. each of the verses help the very incontrovertible actuality that salvation is eternal. the element is that that's troublesome for us often times to carry close the version. those who're extremely kept can do a touch fantastically stoopid issues. verify out King David. He replaced right into a guy after God's own heart, and yet he commited adultery and murdered a guy. look on the letters Paul wrote to the churches - they are finished of rebuke for various undesirable issues the believers were stuck up in. those people seem kept, yet they were in gross sin. So often times we are able to not tell the version - we are able to not continually tell if someone replaced into in no way kept firstly, and they have wandered away because they weren't kept, or in the experience that they extremely are kept and they are purely screwing up vast time. the biggest 2 issues to undergo in ideas are this: a million) once kept, continually kept, no matter if you sin; 2) we are not kept with the help of our works, yet with the help of religion.

Answer 8

I believe we are saved by grace sure doing good things helps because then your not sining (is that even a word) but you just need to have God in your heart and Jesus and ask for forgivness and your ok!

Answer 9

I believe I know what pasage you are referring to in James 2. It really doesn't contradict salvation by grace, but makes a case that any faith that does not result in outward fruits or works is a dead faith because it doesn't move the person to action in their life. We do indeed receive salvation only by faith in the death of Jesus, which is a sign of God's grace -- his unmerited favor, undeserved love and operational power. It can't be earned or received by any outward action of man. But James says that a person who claims to have the faith that receives salvation but has no outward works for the kingdom to prove it (i.e., feed the hungry, clothe the poor, preach the gospel, etc) has no true, living faith, for it is works BY faith that prove we truly have received salvation by grace. (James 2:14-26) No man can generate faith by his works alone, for nothing we can do in ourselves could erase the guilt of sin before God and earn salvation; it had to be by Jesus' death, paying the penalty, and our receiving that death and His life by the spiritual force of faith (Eph. 2:8-9). The fact that God offers this freely to whomever believes in Christ is His grace in action. Great question!

Answer 10

We are saved by Grace ALONE, but with being reborn and following Christ, a TRUE believer does Good works. Yes, good works can add to your rewards in heaven, but GODS GRACE ALONE, grants you entry to Heaven.