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NASB | Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace [God's remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; |
Bible Question: I agree Hank,God bless you,but how would you reconcile the scriputres Galatians 5:4, Romans 11:2,3, I Peter 1:4,5, Romans 8:37,38? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Tamara... Our brother Jeff has made some very good points. The passages you cited confirm, rather than contradict, brother Hank's assertion that salvation is of the Lord. Paul's epistle to the Galatians, focusing on the apostasy of Judaizers, confirms the message of Romans that the law has no power to save, only to convict. Paul assures us of the universality of sin, that all men are under sin, and that the only way that sinful men can stand before a Holy God is through His provision in the Gospel. Salvation isn't a matter of what man can do. Rather it is a matter of God sovereignly, surely, and inevitably accomplishing His will. Baptism, a command of Christ, signifies the believer having been engrafted into Him. It is, indeed, a means of grace for the regenerate, but it is nothing more than a bath for a lost person. In Him, Doc "We hold that Christ, when He died, had an object in view, and that object will most assuredly, and beyond a doubt, be accomplished. We measure the design of Christ's death by the effect of it. If any one asks us, 'What did Christ design to do by His death?' we answer that question by asking him another -- 'What has Christ done, or what will Christ do by His death?' For we declare that the measure of the effect of Christ's love, is the measure of the design of it. We cannot so belie our reason as to think that the intention of Almighty God could be frustrated, or that the design of so great a thing as the atonement, can by any way whatever, be missed of. We hold—we are not afraid to say that we believe -- that Christ came into this world with the intention of saving 'a multitude which no man can number;' and we believe that as the result of this, every person for whom He died must, beyond the shadow of a doubt, be cleansed from sin, and stand, washed in blood, before the Father's throne." --Charles H. Spurgeon |