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Paul’s teaching we Protestants have twisted Pt. 1, Ephesians 2:8-10.

By ‘you have been saved by grace through faith’ Paul means ‘by divine empowerment which is racially indiscriminative, our works can save us, to achieve God’s righteous oneness in the world.’ Eph 2:8-10 has commonly been understood as Paul teaching this way: 1. ‘by grace’ is interpreted as ‘contributed absolutely not by human but only by God’, i.e., God vs human 2. ‘faith’ is …

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‘I boast in my weakness’ 2Corinthians 11

It is common to hear Christians and preachers saying ‘I boast in my weakness’, meaning ‘I boast in my moral weakness’. They think that their current moral weakness highlights God’s mercy and grace (their definition of grace). They boast about currently being sinners yet God still loves them and saves them regardless of their works …

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