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Grace

Grace:
[Correct] Grace is undeserving favor. (Biblical view) Given freely and without charge. 

[False] Grace is an irresistible force. (Calvinist view)(OSAS View)

[False] Grace is unconditional forgiveness (Modern day definition) Mixture of truth and error making this definition deceptive. (OSAS View) (All sins forgiven - past and future, blank check to continue to sin assuming Christians will continue to sin)(Battle between the old man and the new man but the old man wont lie down). (Effortless salvation contradictory to Hebrews 12 nothing you need to do to be saved, no need for repentance - just believe that is all). New Testament has over 1,100 commandments in the law of Christ. 

Pelagianism:
Human responsibility for salvation
Humans decide who gets saved
If people are not saved it's entirely their fault(people can save themselves) 
God isn't needed for salvation 


Augustinianism/Calvinism(T.Beza)/M.Luther:
God's responsibility for salvation 
God decides who gets saved, if he doesn’t elect a person to salvation they go to hell(Salvation is a lottery)
People are not saved because God has not chosen to save them(God's fault)


Neutral: If God willeth to save men by overcoming their wills by His omnipotent influence, all men must be saved - This isn't the case. 

Answer: God's will is for all people to be saved - Respond to the Gospel and accept God's free gift of Grace and you will be saved. 

I do not see how Hyper-Calvinism can avoid making God the author of sin and evil - if- all human thought and action is the product of determinate Will of God.

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye made safe thorow faith, and that not of your selves: For it is the gift of God,  and cometh not of works, lest any man should boast himself. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

 
It's important to understand that faith is not a matter of 'word' but a matter of 'deed'. Faith is something you do in practical deeds. Letter of James makes quite clear in that faith is something you do, it's not just a personal thought or confession. We need to combine all of the authors testimony for proper insight and sound biblical doctrine. Paul AND James teaches about faith"If you love me you will keep my commandments" Jesus

John 6:65 Therefore said I unto you: that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my father. 

Romans 1 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God unto salvation to all that believe, namely to the jew, and also to the gentile


5 Misinterpreted points of Calvinism


T    Total depravity (So far gone in sin we can not save ourselves) (Only born again because God chooses, we can not repent and believe.)

U    Unconditional election (God chooses who will be saved regardless of anything in the people)  

L    Limited atonement (Based on the logic that says if Christ was punished for the sins     of the world God can not send anybody to hell - that would be punishing sins twice)    (Therefore Christ only died for the elect - not the world)

I    Irresistible grace 

P    Perseverance of the Saints (God will make absolutely sure that everyone who is called to be saved will finish up in heaven)
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Grace and the Law, Both exists at the same time.
One is how you are saved, the other is how saved people live. One is the root of salvation, the other is the fruit of salvation. Eph 2:8, 2:10
James 2:18, 20, 22, 24, 26.
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What about the entire chapter of Galatians:

Paul never taught against the law of God. He did preach against those trying to hold the Gentiles to the law of Moses. Also, circumcision was part of the “works of the law” that don’t save. I believe these “works of the law” are the same “ordinances” that were nailed to the cross. The differentiation between the law of Moses is debated in Acts 15 as follows: “Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.” The apostles and elders met to consider this question....When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me....It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”‭‭Acts‬ ‭15:5-6, 13-14, 19

A distinction is made in the gospel of Luke between the law of Moses and the law of the Lord. Where the law of Moses has to die with ceremonial cleansing and waiting. “Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD ”), and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord,” Luke‬ ‭2:22

Later in Acts, James tells Paul to pay for men who have taken a vow and go to get their head shaved at the temple. “As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”


Deliberate Defiance of Law Cancels Grace

Grace doesn't annul the covenant

The Messiah's death and resurrection DOES NOT rescind our obligation to keep the law, statutes, ordinances, and commandments of God. Being obedient to these things is actually the only way to remain under grace now that it has been given. Grace being the Messiah's death for our sins and trespasses instead of our own death. But, woe unto those who do not obey God, for to disobey is sin. And the wages of sin is death, even the second death.

You cannot trust singular statements of Paul to convey a detour from the narrow path.

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