Core tenet of Christianity⚖ contested within
Salvation is grace, not wage.
Rescue is received, not earned — how faith and works relate is exactly where the branches divide.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Grace is the anti-wage: standing with God received as gift, not earned as salary. The Reformation fought over the mechanics — faith alone, or faith formed by love and sacrament — but the underlying grammar is shared: the initiative is God's, and the ledger is not how heaven does its accounting.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
By grace you have been saved through faith — and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works.
Ephesians 2:8–9
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Justification is by faith alone.
Protestantism
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Law and gospel must not be confused.
Lutheranism
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Grace does the work; your effort is mostly getting out of the way.
Hinduism
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Amitabha — the buddha of infinite light.
Buddhism · figure
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Marudevi on the elephant.
Jainism · figure
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Mercy outruns wrath.
Islam
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