5/21/2023 0 Comments Ordinary grace![]() ![]() ![]() This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. Protestants believe that the sacrifice of Christ on behalf of the sinner is all that is needed for God to justify the sinner. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness” (Romans 4:4–5). “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. ![]() God is the One who justifies the ungodly. God saves us while we are in our sin and in spite of our sin. When Protestants speak of salvation by grace, they mean that our works do not in any way contribute to our salvation. Grace essentially means “undeserved favor.” Both Protestants and Catholics agree about the general meaning of grace however, they often mean something very different by the words saved by grace. The Bible clearly teaches that we are saved by grace. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines it as “a supernatural help of God for salutary acts granted in consideration of the merits of Christ” (Pohle, J., Robert Appleton Company, 1909). Actual grace is a concept in Roman Catholic theology of the bestowment of God’s favor and power to those who perform good deeds. ![]()
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