什么是上帝的恩典?一份我们永远无法赚取的免费礼物



  • 上帝的恩典是祂的爱与帮助,白白赐给那些没有赚取、也永远无法偿还的人。
  • 曾经迫害教会的保罗,用“然而我今日成了何等人,是蒙上帝的恩才成的”(哥林多前书 15:10)这句话总结了他的一生。
  • 希腊语中表示恩典的词“charis”也意为恩惠、礼物和感谢,钦定版圣经(King James Bible)使用了170次“恩典”。
  • 耶稣很少使用这个词(钦定版圣经在他口中将其译为“感谢”),但他通过浪子回头的比喻讲述了恩典,并与十字架上的强盗一同活出了恩典。
  • 1999年,天主教与世界信义宗联会共同承认,我们蒙上帝接纳唯独靠恩典,而非靠我们自己的任何功德;世界卫理公会、圣公会和归正宗团体随后也对此表示肯定,而东正教、浸信会和五旬节派尚未签署。
  • 各教会在功德、协同论、作为恩典媒介的圣礼以及信徒是否会失去恩典等问题上仍存在分歧,各方都在各自的文献中阐述了这些观点。

God’s grace is his love and help, given freely to people who have not earned it and could never pay it back. Paul says it in one sentence: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Grace is God giving, and us receiving. Paul knew it from the inside. He had once gone after the first Christians “breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the…

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