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Subject: Grace AND? |
Bible Note: Mommapbs: One of the problems we encounter on the Forum and in real life is the use of theological terms by people who don't know what they mean. I'm thinking of such words as grace, regeneration, justification and sanctification. One of the most recurring errors I've seen on the Forum in regard to soteriology is the jumbling in one's mind of the two terms, justification and sanctification, to the extent that they teach outright (or strongly imply) that the latter is the cause of or contributes to the former. This simply isn't true because the Bible teaches no such thing. Man is saved (justified) by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Period. That's all. Nothing else. Nothing added. Sanctification is the result of, not the cause of, justification. Unless one has the meaning of these fundamental theological terms fixed firmly in his mind, he is prone to err; and he should not attempt therefore to teach others what he himself does not understand. And it really isn't all that difficult to understand. John 3:16 and Ephesians 2:8-10 are not written in code. We are saved by God's grace through faith in His Son. These are plain statements that a child can understand. Why can't we? Why do we say, "Yes, I believe we are saved by grace, but..." and then insist on attaching our own laundry list of things we must do to in order "to be safe instead of sorry"? Was our Lord lying to Paul when He said, "My grace is sufficient for thee."? (2 Cor. 12:9). Or did Paul omit any essentials and mislead the Philippian jailer when he, in answer to the jailer's question about how to be saved, told him, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."? Will we vain little vessels of clay never learn how useless it is to wave our own righteousness before the Lord seeking His salvation, knowing that they are nothing but filthy rags to Him? (Isaiah 64:6). --Hank |