Christian Salvation The Role of Faith and Grace Hopefully you came to Christian Salvation from the doctrine page. This page explains how the apostolic and early church emphasis on holy living fits in with salvation by faith and grace. read more
Grace is the lead role and her character is intelligent. Faith would like to be Grace's understudy, but is relegated to the wings because faith is simply belief without evidence. With salvation, you have to "know" Christ, not just have faith. There'll be matinees at 3:00 pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays. read more
Salvation is by grace through faith alone, not as a result of good works, so that God alone gets the glory. To get a handle on this text, you must understand five key concepts: “saved”; “grace”; “faith”; “gift” (as opposed to “works”); and, “boast” (or, glory). 1. read more
There are two prepositions here. And they’re used to illustrate the relation of grace and faith to salvation. Salvation comes by (means of) grace, through (the way of) faith. In other words, grace doesn’t save us. It makes salvation possible. And faith can’t be ignored. read more