3. Grace alone. The Reformers insisted that the inability of the creature to cause God to reveal himself in anything but just wrath meant that salvation must be by grace alone, without any human merit to effect it. Such a radical, though quite biblical, understanding of the Bible meant that God alone provides salvation. It cannot be won by human merit. 4. Faith alone. The Reformers insisted that salvation was through faith alone. Faith is not the cause of God’s grace. It is our response to the revelation
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