Assertion: baptism | /r/HasProperty | a means of grace
Facets:
value: of human works
type: OTHER
value: in other words
type: OTHER
value: for them
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: through those rituals
type: TEMPORAL
value: for the lutherans
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: For the Lutherans, baptism is a "means of grace" through which God creates and strengthens "saving faith" as the "washing of regeneration"[Titus 3:5] in which infants and adults are reborn.[Jn 3:3–7]
text: In other words, baptism and the Eucharist are two of the means of grace—through those rituals God gives the grace to eventually save a person.
text: For them baptism is a "means of grace" through which God creates and strengthens "saving faith" as the "washing of regeneration" (Titus 3:5) in which people are reborn (John 3:3–7): "baptismal regeneration".
text: John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, held that baptism is a means of grace, but that it was symbolic.
text: Lutheranism affirms baptismal regeneration, believing that baptism is a means of grace, instead of human works, through which God creates and strengthens faith.
text: It is for this reason that we say baptism is a means of grace, of blessing through the freely given love of God: the new life we receive is does not come from something that we do or we achieve for ourselves, but it is a graciously given unearned free gift of God.