Salvation Depends On Me (Eph. 2:4-10)

[FineLinen]

Arminian "grace!" How strange the sound,
Salvation hinged on me.
I once was lost then turned around,
Was blind then chose to see.

What "grace" is it that calls for choice,
Made from some good within:
That part that wills to heed God's voice,
Proved stronger than my sin.

Thru many ardent gospel pleas,
I sat with heart of stone.
But then some hidden good in me,
Propelled me toward my home.

When we've been there ten thousand years,
Because of what we've done,
We've no less days to sing our praise,
Then when we first begun.

Eph. 2: 4-10

Wm. Barclay New Testament

For it is to grace that you owe your salvation through faith. The whole process comes from nothing we have done or could do; it is God's gift. Any achievement of ours is ruled out to make it impossible for anyone to boast. It is He who made us what we are, for through Jesus Christ we have been created for that life of goodness which God already prepared for us to live.

Ferrar Fenton New Testament

You are saved by a gift...For you are saved by a gift through faith, and this is not from yourselves; the gift is from God; not from rituals, so that none can boast. For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus...in which God has decided we should live.

Francis Weymouth New Testament

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed upon us, caused us, dead though we were in our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved...for it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--so that it may be impossible for any one to boast. For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has predestined us to practice.

J. B. Phillips

It is, remember, by grace and not by achievement that you are saved...it was nothing you could do or did achieve, it was God's gift to you. No one can pride himself upon earning the love of God. The fact is that what we are we owe to the hand of God upon us. We were born afresh in Christ....

[martincisneros]

 :thumbsup: I'm finding the boards a bit boring right now, so I'm stirring things around a bit at random by movin' stuff around and seeing if some of these older, but classic posts get any interesting replies.  Might even shuffle the boards a bit since the "Discussion on Judgment and Punishment" has been a perdy bare board.  I'll keep the offenses to a minimum 'cause we've probably all got a favorite thread or two in the back of our mind that we want to be sure we can still find for future reference.  Besides, if I move so much around that I just re-bury it all, what's the point, right?