A new day
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Your question can not be answered with a mere yes or no. Why? because, such answers have been later twisted to mean other than what was originally intended. Not even Rc priests answer your question with a simple yes or no answer. They expound upon what they mean, by their answer.
The biblical definition for God's grace is--- unmerited favor. That means His grace is unearned. Jesus has already earned God's grace for us when He died on the cross. You don't realize that through what Christ has done, we have already received God's grace. And if we have already received His grace through Christ, then why would you need to quantify yourself, when it has already been done for you by Christ, Himself. When Christ died on the cross, He said, "it is finished".
If there was anything more for us to do to qualify to receive God's grace, then Jesus, Himself would not have said "it is finished". His mission was to die on the cross for us. It is HE who earned us God's grace for us. So there is nothing for us to boast in and of ourselves.
Our good works do NOT qualify us to receive God’s grace. He has already given us His grace. It is available. We just need to accept that it is a free gift from Him, and not try to earn it.
Isaiah 64:6
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
Psalm 49:7
Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.
Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 4:5
But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.
Romans 3:21-22
But now God has shown us a different way to heaven—not by “being good enough” and trying to keep his laws, but by a new way (though not new, really, for the Scriptures told about it long ago). Now God says he will accept and acquit us—declare us “not guilty”—if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like.
Romans 11:6
And if it is by God’s kindness, then it is not by their being good enough. For in that case the free gift would no longer be free—it isn’t free when it is earned.
Philippians 3:9
and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith—counting on Christ alone.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Titus 3:5
he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.
The biblical definition for God's grace is--- unmerited favor. That means His grace is unearned. Jesus has already earned God's grace for us when He died on the cross. You don't realize that through what Christ has done, we have already received God's grace. And if we have already received His grace through Christ, then why would you need to quantify yourself, when it has already been done for you by Christ, Himself. When Christ died on the cross, He said, "it is finished".
If there was anything more for us to do to qualify to receive God's grace, then Jesus, Himself would not have said "it is finished". His mission was to die on the cross for us. It is HE who earned us God's grace for us. So there is nothing for us to boast in and of ourselves.
Our good works do NOT qualify us to receive God’s grace. He has already given us His grace. It is available. We just need to accept that it is a free gift from Him, and not try to earn it.
Isaiah 64:6
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
Psalm 49:7
Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.
Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 4:5
But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.
Romans 3:21-22
But now God has shown us a different way to heaven—not by “being good enough” and trying to keep his laws, but by a new way (though not new, really, for the Scriptures told about it long ago). Now God says he will accept and acquit us—declare us “not guilty”—if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like.
Romans 11:6
And if it is by God’s kindness, then it is not by their being good enough. For in that case the free gift would no longer be free—it isn’t free when it is earned.
Philippians 3:9
and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith—counting on Christ alone.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Titus 3:5
he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.
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