Hey everyone.
I'm doing studies on different books of the bible. And as I do, I'm seeing conditions to our salvation; our new birth in Christ.
Now please hear me, I'm not saying it's based on works. We receive our new life in Christ by grace through faith. So would that "by faith" be a condition?
Here's why I'm asking. If a person on the street were to say he's saved and I ask him what he means by that and he tells me that he's saved by God's grace. And he says furthermore, everyone is saved by God's grace so therefore everyone is saved.
So I ask him further if he has faith in God and if he receive God's grace through faith and he tells me no. He woke up one morning and just decided he is saved and so is everyone else. They are saved by God's free gift of grace and it has nothing to do with faith.
Wouldn't we have to say that there is a condition and it's by grace through faith. The both of them must go together for there to be new birth? And yes, this is a teaching creeping into the church that we don't have to have faith. God's free gift of grace is for everyone without conditions. So if I speak with this person and tell him no, he must have God's grace through faith to be born-again, is that not a condition?
I'm doing studies on different books of the bible. And as I do, I'm seeing conditions to our salvation; our new birth in Christ.
Now please hear me, I'm not saying it's based on works. We receive our new life in Christ by grace through faith. So would that "by faith" be a condition?
Here's why I'm asking. If a person on the street were to say he's saved and I ask him what he means by that and he tells me that he's saved by God's grace. And he says furthermore, everyone is saved by God's grace so therefore everyone is saved.
So I ask him further if he has faith in God and if he receive God's grace through faith and he tells me no. He woke up one morning and just decided he is saved and so is everyone else. They are saved by God's free gift of grace and it has nothing to do with faith.
Wouldn't we have to say that there is a condition and it's by grace through faith. The both of them must go together for there to be new birth? And yes, this is a teaching creeping into the church that we don't have to have faith. God's free gift of grace is for everyone without conditions. So if I speak with this person and tell him no, he must have God's grace through faith to be born-again, is that not a condition?