“Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life”
No, Grace is NOT “help”. God does NOT “help” us get redeemed, HE REDEEMS US, period. Even the faith necessary TO BELIEVE is given us by God. We have NOTHING to do with our redemption. The call of God on ones life is answered by repenting(changing ones mind) and using the free gift of faith God gave us to believe on Him and be born again. Grace is wholly imparted and bestowed upon us by God, whereby He counts the sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross and the blood shed By Him for us to be applied to us and in our place.
“The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism”
Grace is a gift of God to believers who have repented and turned towards Him. The original sinful dead to God spirit that we all inherited from Adam is born again into a spirit alive in Crist. We were NOT sinners because we sinned, we were born sinners because the spirit we were born with was sin stained, and unable to commune with God.
It is quite obvious just from this thread why the teachings of Catholicism is mostly incompatible with God’s simple plan for salvation. Building walls of crazy over explained, and mostly wrong and over complicatedly defined, edicts for its followers to attempt to wade through in order for them to work out their own salvation is just not what God’s free gift of Grace is.
Of course he redeems us. Sheesh you take one word and light in it?