We are saved through Christ by believing in Christ ... This cooperation with God's redeeming grace is the Catholic understanding of merit (CCC 162; 2025). Fortunately God has given us the ...
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
But election turns the meaning of Israel upside-down. Israel may not be exactly who you think she is. She may not even be Jewish, at least not entirely. She is, in all actuality, a mix of races and ...