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No, you grace-onlyists have it all perverted. GRACE IS NOT WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. It's about God so loving the world. It's about the plan of salvation which includes grace, BUT also includes faith, true repentance, fruits of repentance, & working out your salvation, or working for God with the abilities he gave you to bring forth fruit, for fruitless christians are rejected.
Go back & read the OT & find out what God thinks about the sluggard & what He does with them. That hasn't changed. As a matter of fact, He expects more from us because of the grace given to us to make us the Sons of God!
Grace-onlyists now have a new name: lazy-gracers. They are the NT sluggards.
Go back & read the OT & find out what God thinks about the sluggard & what He does with them. That hasn't changed. As a matter of fact, He expects more from us because of the grace given to us to make us the Sons of God!
Grace-onlyists now have a new name: lazy-gracers. They are the NT sluggards.
If salvation is dependent on them, one must save themselves. and man gets the credit.
If however, The "work of men" in obedience, working out your salvation, and bearing good fruit is a "result" or "Byproduct" of salvation. Then you have grace through faith, and not of ourselves. and God gets all the glory.
What you grace and works people do not understand, is trying to add works to grace, nullifies grace, and makes it of no effect (those are pauls words not mine)
Grace and faith PRODUCE WORKS, as a product of BEING SAVED. Grace and works, produce more death.