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Through the atoning work of Jesus Christ alone, apart from individual works, and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man. [1] [2] It holds that salvation cannot be obtained without Christ. [1] [3] This is in opposition to Catholic doctrine which Mary, mother of Jesus is also mediator between God and humanity . [4]
Lutherans believe that individuals receive this gift of salvation through faith alone. [62] [63] Saving faith is the knowledge of, [64] acceptance of, [65] and trust [66] in the promise of the Gospel. [67] Even faith itself is seen as a gift of God, created in the hearts of Christians [68] by the work of the Holy Spirit through the Word [69 ...
The five solae (Latin: quinque solae from the Latin sola, lit. "alone"; [1] occasionally Anglicized to five solas) of the Protestant Reformation are a foundational set of Christian theological principles held by theologians and clergy to be central to the doctrines of justification and salvation as taught by the Lutheranism, Reformed and Evangelical branches of Protestantism, as well as in ...
Psalm 119:28 “My spirit sags because of grief. Now raise me up according to your promise!” The Good News: This verse is conveying the feeling of being emotionally exhausted and sad.When we ...
The "three angels' messages" is an interpretation of the messages given by three angels in Revelation 14:6–12.The Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that these messages are given to prepare the world for the second coming of Jesus Christ, and sees them as a central part of its own mission.
William Holman Hunt's 19th century The Light of the World is an allegory of Jesus knocking on the door of the sinner's heart.. The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is a Christian evangelical term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by individuals who feel sin in their lives and have the desire to form or renew a personal relationship.
The Catholic Church teaches salvation by grace alone in contradistinction with salvation by faith alone: [3]. The Catholic Church teaches that good works done after regeneration (at baptism) and justification are (if certain conditions are met) meritorious and can contribute to salvation and attainment of eternal life, but only hand-in-hand with, soaked in, enabled by, grace, which alone saves us.
He began to teach that salvation is a gift of God's grace through Christ received by faith alone. [16] As a result of his lectures on the Psalms and Paul the Apostle 's Epistle to the Romans , from 1513–1516, Luther "achieved an exegetical breakthrough, an insight into the all-encompassing grace of God and all-sufficient merit of Christ."