Eph 2:5-10 Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ...For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest anyone should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, where God's purpose that we should walk in them.
2006-11-10 04:31:07 · 24 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The gift of eternal life is the Gift of God. This is heaven
Though, we reap what we sow. So when we sow the Word, reap life. When we sow slanders, etc... reap death. That is in this life as a Christian. And what is rewarded in heaven or what is fried when tried by the fire.
No one or ones self can take the gift of eternal life from someone born of God. But Christian will reap what one sows good so is saved every day from things destructive.
2006-11-10 15:11:18 · update #1
Salvation is by grace----you cannot earn your way into heaven. A lot of false religions, like Mormonism, teach salvation by works. But the Bible is very clear that salvation is by faith. Salvation is a free gift from god for the asking, but you must ask for it and be prepared to repent your sin. You would be surprised at the number of people that would prefer to live in their sin rather than be saved.
2006-11-10 04:34:39 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the first step towards justification and reconciliation are what is discussed in Eph. The step is put forth in the tense that Greek has and we lack. Thet tense describes a action done at a given moment and done repeatedly ever after. That first step is favor without merit. When that step is done it immediately yields a person who begins doing good works except that they do not seem like work but the narural way to live. The Spirit which produces these works can be quenched. When this happens the works slack off or disappear. This brings about the statement that faith without works is dead. Dead meaning that the Spirit has been quenched.
Poor preachers who are not and have not been held accountable and were chosen without regard to the Biblical guidlines are responsible for this not being properly taught and thus the many walking dead.
Read the letters to TIM. and the guidlines of accountability in Mat.18. If those are used your church will stay alive and people will not quench the spirit much b4 they get brought back to their first love.
As it is today way more than half our preachers are in the wrong ministery. Prophets get stoned and the leadership is so deplorable that it is a wonder there are any Christians who are alive.
2006-11-10 04:43:12 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are asking the wrong question. It isn't a matter of grace vs. works. It is a matter of faith vs. works. The Bible makes is absolutely clear that those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will not be saved. The Bible also makes it clear that those who do not LIVE as though they accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will not be saved, regardless of what they believe. In other words, what you DO or don't DO is just as important as what you believe (just read the last paragraph of Matt 25). Both faith and works are therefore essential to salvation. Neither one can earn salvation, because salvation is a free gift. But both are necessary means of accepting that gift, and if you lack either faith OR works you will not be saved.
So where does grace fit in? Grace is what makes possible both the required faith and the required works of Christian charity. Therefore, salvation is by grace alone, and not by our own efforts. But it is not by faith alone. That idea is a tradition of men only a few hundred years old, not a teaching of true Christianity.
2006-11-10 05:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
two men live good lives..but they worship their God in two different ways.
One does what he thinks is right. He is a good father, good husband, and is a good citizen. Has never been in any trouble and is a good neighbor.
The other man does all these things too and finds time to pray, worship with like-minded followers of God, and Does everything God's way as he has learned from the scriptures.
Both men die.....which one is resurrected?
They both are......one is righteous..the other unrighteous...one knows about God..the other doesn't......
Both will be trained to worship God the way God wants to be worshipped...these men will then both have the prospect of living forever.
Men do good works and have faith.....but only God reads hearts and the GIFT God gives is everlasting life.
2006-11-10 04:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saved by Grace. But it is also said the Grace without works is dead. We are saved by Grace.
But it is said in Jam 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
By Grace we are saved but we show our faith by our works. Heaven can not be earned but by Grace shall thou enter. Works causes a man to boast, to think about how good he his and better than someone else...that is not what it is all about because we all sin.
2006-11-10 04:38:39 · answer #5 · answered by chico2149 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody by the grace of any spiritual teacher is saved and given eternal life except by the work that you do in this world
2006-11-10 05:10:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do want morals, i think of. For one factor, what does Grace recommend? It potential you're saved, while you're a Christian. yet then you definately're meant to act like it -- meaning living a ethical existence. while i become nevertheless going to Bible learn & Sunday college & church centers, the ministers extensively utilized to show out that God's grace and/or Jesus's voluntary sacrifice is a extensive present. the assumption is: if God and/or Jesus has given you the present of eternal existence & salvation -- a extensive, extensive Christmas modern, kinda -- then do not you prefer to unfold the excellent things around? If God supposedly provides existence, forgiveness, love & compassion, isn't it organic to prefer to furnish those comparable issues on your fellow human beings? of direction, you are able to prefer to settle for that vast, costly Christmas modern from God and nevertheless settle directly to be a **** on your youthful sister. yet if so, you incredibly are a ****. while you're even halfway human, even with the undeniable fact that, you're able to see the experience in being super, enjoying super, going out of your thank you to be compassionate, through fact God first has been so remarkably compassionate to you. -- A friendly agnostic/ former evangelical biblical studies member
2016-11-23 14:21:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvation is by grace through Faith
Salvation is not by works alone.
Faith without works is useless.
"For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead" James 2:26
The book of James is a good one for this subject.
In James we see that Faith without works is dead.
In other words, people all the time say I believe in God I believe in Jesus, James tell us the demons also believe and shudder. (that is from James 2:19)
In living out our faith, we become "doers of the word and not merely hearers who delude themselves." James 1:22
This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world. -James 1:27
2006-11-10 04:46:47 · answer #8 · answered by redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The average christian will tell you by grace and because they are covered in the blood of Jesus.
I am not a christian. Thank God.
2006-11-10 04:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the grace and blood of Jesus
When the spirit touches you you will want to serve others.
My father told me you keep what you give away if you want to keep the grace of God you share it with others
2006-11-10 04:40:12 · answer #10 · answered by mmmkay_us 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋