ABondSlaveofChristJesus
Puritan Board Freshman
Two definitions I've hear all the time for grace.
1. Unmerited favor
2. Something we don't deserve
Now, I am always mentioning all the verses in the Bible to Arminians/Semi-Pelagians that involve that we are saved only by faith. They agree. However, they say that faith isn't a work because its not material. I respond taht it is merit though. That God is rewarding your salvation based on a decision that you have made, thus giving you the chance to boast/ glorify yourself in heaven, about how you made a decision while the others didn't. They say the chance to choose God is something we don't deserve and thus grace. When a guilty person is drowinging and a rope is thrown to him, that is grace. The person who threw the rope had the right and power not to do so, yet still did. A gift is grace, yet we can refuse it, if you are in jail and pardoned you can refuse the pardon, etc. If God gives us a chance and we refuse it, we refuse grace. To say that we share the glory when God initiated it and gave us the opertunity is silly because we didn't deserve the chance in the first place.
I have many other angles to defeat them on this subject, however this one seems to be difficult for me to explain. Help me untangle this guys, shed me some of your light.
1. Unmerited favor
2. Something we don't deserve
Now, I am always mentioning all the verses in the Bible to Arminians/Semi-Pelagians that involve that we are saved only by faith. They agree. However, they say that faith isn't a work because its not material. I respond taht it is merit though. That God is rewarding your salvation based on a decision that you have made, thus giving you the chance to boast/ glorify yourself in heaven, about how you made a decision while the others didn't. They say the chance to choose God is something we don't deserve and thus grace. When a guilty person is drowinging and a rope is thrown to him, that is grace. The person who threw the rope had the right and power not to do so, yet still did. A gift is grace, yet we can refuse it, if you are in jail and pardoned you can refuse the pardon, etc. If God gives us a chance and we refuse it, we refuse grace. To say that we share the glory when God initiated it and gave us the opertunity is silly because we didn't deserve the chance in the first place.
I have many other angles to defeat them on this subject, however this one seems to be difficult for me to explain. Help me untangle this guys, shed me some of your light.