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To: VRWCmember

That’s what I said, but Grace gives us more than faith and those other gifts are not essential to Salvation. Faith is, leaving it alone front and center. Aren’t we essentially saying the same thing?


47 posted on 06/22/2015 11:02:40 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

It might be a matter of semantics, but I believe the Scripturally correct statement is: We are saved BY grace through faith in Christ. Our faith (which is not even possible on our own) is not what saves us; the GRACE of God saves us through our assent to and exercise of the faith that He empowers us to receive. Our works can testify to our faith, but are only a by-product of salvation, not its source.


51 posted on 06/22/2015 12:01:32 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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