Question 64: Wouldn't such teachings make people indifferent and wicked about good deeds?

Question 64: Wouldn't such teachings make people indifferent and wicked about good deeds?

Answer: No. Those who are united to Christ through true faith cannot help but bear the fruit of gratitude.

The question is, if salvation is achieved by God's grace and not by good deeds or effort, wouldn't that make us indifferent to good deeds and become evil?

Humans are creatures made up of a combination of flesh and spirit. Because their spirits are imprisoned in a physical body, they are called sinners. However, believers who repent and enter into Jesus Christ believe that their physical body has died, and so their spirits are resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit, and their spirits, clothed in a spiritual body, attain salvation.

However, even among saints, there are two bodies within the flesh: a fleshly (sarco) body and a spiritual (pneuma) body. The believer's fleshly mind and spiritual mind are in spiritual conflict. Therefore, while saints may bear good fruit, they can also fall into evil. While saints are seated in heaven (the third heaven), they can also be struck by Satan's thorns. Therefore, saints need spiritual growth and must always keep their identity in their spiritual minds. Furthermore, to prevent the old self from operating, they must live each day remembering the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

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