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To: NRx; lightman; Honorary Serb

Evangelicals also believe in Salvation by the grace of God as a gift, she added, while Orthodoxy considers salvation to be a progress based on good works.

Is that accurate?

65 posted on 07/14/2017 6:18:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)

To: Albion Wilde

Evangelicals also believe in Salvation by the grace of God as a gift, she added, while Orthodoxy considers salvation to be a progress based on good works.

Orthodox believe in the synergy of God's grace and human response. The human response is manifested both through faith and through good works which reach their perfection in love.

The prime example of synergy is the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) who was chosen by God's grace ("hail, full of grace") yet who responded to that grace by her free will ("be it done to me accoring to Thy word").

Even Martin Luther thought that trying to separate faith and good works was to create a false dichotomy. "One can no more separate good works from faith than to separate heat and light from fire" (paraphrase of Luther's preface to his commentary on Romans).

67 posted on 07/14/2017 7:00:47 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)

To: Albion Wilde

68 posted on 07/14/2017 7:04:10 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)

To: Albion Wilde

Orthodoxy and Western Christianity: Salvation in Christ...

http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/inq_salvation.aspx

71 posted on 07/14/2017 7:31:06 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)

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