The utter simplicity of the plan of salvation demonstrates God's love and its divine origin. Salvation is God's free gift to those who will accept it.
You can't buy the gift and you can't earn the gift through good works, or being "good"(what would "good-enough" look like and do you really expect to meet God's standard of perfection?), or through self-effort, or other complex human efforts, or a series of legalisms imposed on you.
No, the price of the gift was paid in-full on a lonely hill called Calvary some 2,000-years ago; like any freely given gift, all you need to do is accept it. (See the sidebar for how...)
The apostle Paul's letter to the faithful at Ephesus in 62 A.D. makes abundantly clear that salvation is a gift. In Paul's letter, he wrote: For it is by free grace, that is God's unmerited favor toward you, that you are saved -- made partakers of Christ's salvation -- through your faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves -- of your own doing, it came not through your own striving -- but it is the gift of God: Not because of works, lest any man should boast. It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.
You can't buy the gift and you can't earn the gift through good works, or being "good"(what would "good-enough" look like and do you really expect to meet God's standard of perfection?), or through self-effort, or other complex human efforts, or a series of legalisms imposed on you.
No, the price of the gift was paid in-full on a lonely hill called Calvary some 2,000-years ago; like any freely given gift, all you need to do is accept it. (See the sidebar for how...)
The apostle Paul's letter to the faithful at Ephesus in 62 A.D. makes abundantly clear that salvation is a gift. In Paul's letter, he wrote: For it is by free grace, that is God's unmerited favor toward you, that you are saved -- made partakers of Christ's salvation -- through your faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves -- of your own doing, it came not through your own striving -- but it is the gift of God: Not because of works, lest any man should boast. It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.
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