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ZionSeeker confusedly said:
Besides, Ephesians says, when referring to what you have acknweldged to be regeneration, "for by grace are ye saved, through faith." This raising up, this quickening, which God did, is by grace, through faith.
Sorry, but I have to accept the CONTEXT of each passage and not err in using a "psycho statistical mean" hermeneutic. The phrase ("for by grace are ye saved") means what it says, i.e., salvation is by grace, whether or not it is referring narrowly to regeneration, or to the faith which results from it. Perhaps you are having difficult comprehending these things which the Protestant churches everywhere which came out of the Protestant Reformation have understood, believed and taught for centuries, because you have only had one semester of hermeneutics too? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shrug.gif" alt="" />

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