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Good works alone do not merit salvation. No one can "buy" heaven with enough good works, or good enough motives. The ticket to heaven is not being nice or sincere or good enough; the ticket to heaven is the Blood of Christ, and faith is the acceptance of that free gift. But the [Catholic] Church insists that good works are necessary too.
the good works of the one justified are in such manner the gifts of God that they are not also the good merits of him justified; or the one justified by the good works that he performs by the grace of God and the merit of Jesus Christ, whose living member he is, does not truly merit an increase of grace, eternal life, and in case he dies in ...
Although the term "perquisite" (or "perks") can signify a valuable benefit any employee receives above and beyond his or her base salary, it's most often associated with this definition from ...
In Catholic theology, merit is a property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward: it is a salutary act (i.e., "Human action that is performed under the influence of grace and that positively leads a person to a heavenly destiny") [4] to which God, in whose service the work is done, in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward (prœmium, merces).
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden hailed former President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39 th president, as "a practitioner of good works" in a eulogy delivered on the final day of the state funeral ...
Georgia has had a nation-leading 24 Good Works honorees since the award’s inception in 1992 including Nakobe Dean in 2021, Kearis Jackson in 2022 and Ladd McConkey in 2023.
The historic Protestant perspectives interpret this phrase as referring to human effort to do good works in order to meet God's standards (Works Righteousness). [ citation needed ] In this view, Paul is arguing against the idea that humans can merit salvation from God by their good works alone (note that the "new" perspective agrees that we ...
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