Subject: Can a Christian reject God's grace |
Bible Note: You say we aren't forced to work at salvation to keept it, and you say that if we don't strive and continue in our salvation we will lose it. Which is it?? Paul says that our salvation is not of works, lest anyone should boast. You are simply giving man bragging rights when he shouldn't have any. Take two men who are in heaven after all is said and done. One man supposedly fell from grace and then returned to Christ, the other persevered. The Persistant one can claim boasting rights over the other. After all, he continued in his salvation where the other didn't. You may not intend that, but that's where this thought is leading. Basically, you are saying that God is powerful enough to save us, but in the keeping part, he needs help. I'm not denying that good works are a part of the christian life. I am arguing about the purpose for the works. Is it because we have to in order to maintain our salvation, cause if we don't we will fall from grace as it were? Or is it because by the grace and power of God our sinful nature is no more and we will want to do these good works, and that doing them is what little thanks we can give back to God and also because these good works show to others what kind of a God we follow? Jesusman |