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When scripture tells us that we must "work out our salvation with fear and trembling", it means that we must literally "walk the walk" instead of merely "talking the talk" as so many seem to think these days. Utiimately, it does not matter what you "believe" inside your head, if you do not have the faith to actually live it out in your daily life then your "beleifs" amount to absolutely nothing.
This what the bible means when it is reads "faith without works is dead". By no means is anyone insinuating that we are saved by "works", in fact, quite the opposite is true. However, real faith is more than simply believing or agreeing with a ceratin concept or idea. Real real faith must walked out - it is a way of life - it requires that we physically live out our beliefs not only in thought but in deed as well. So when the bible tells us that "we are saved by grace through faith", Paul is referring to a faith that is so alive and absolute within us that it influences every decission we make, every thing we do and everything thing we say. This may friends is the biblical definition of "faith".
It is this kind of faith that Calvin believed in. It is this kind of faith that Calvin insisted offered eternal security. However, Calvin would be the first to take a stand against most popular modern doctrine, especially that of "carnal christianity", the idea that one can be a slave to sin and still be saved. Calvin would not hesitate to remind you that Christ himself insisted thaty one can not have two masters and that by embracing one, he is despising the other.
This what the bible means when it is reads "faith without works is dead". By no means is anyone insinuating that we are saved by "works", in fact, quite the opposite is true. However, real faith is more than simply believing or agreeing with a ceratin concept or idea. Real real faith must walked out - it is a way of life - it requires that we physically live out our beliefs not only in thought but in deed as well. So when the bible tells us that "we are saved by grace through faith", Paul is referring to a faith that is so alive and absolute within us that it influences every decission we make, every thing we do and everything thing we say. This may friends is the biblical definition of "faith".
It is this kind of faith that Calvin believed in. It is this kind of faith that Calvin insisted offered eternal security. However, Calvin would be the first to take a stand against most popular modern doctrine, especially that of "carnal christianity", the idea that one can be a slave to sin and still be saved. Calvin would not hesitate to remind you that Christ himself insisted thaty one can not have two masters and that by embracing one, he is despising the other.
Luke 18:8
"...However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
James 1:21-22
"Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
2 Timothy 3:2-9
"People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."
"They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone."
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