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Remember the Bible verse referenced earlier, "not of yourselves, a gift, not of works." Later on in Paul's letters to the Christians in Rome he makes an even stronger statement. He puts it into more exclusive terms. He says something like "the gift is given to the one who does not work for it." The idea is that it can't be a gift if we're doing something, anything, to earn it. The concept of grace and good deeds are mutually exclusive. They're like oil and water---they just don't mix. |
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