Saved by Grace through Faith

Paul summarizes how a man is made alive after being spiritually dead. He says it is by God’s grace, through man’s faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). People can be saved because of God’s grace and the exercising of their faith. However, salvation is not solely by God’s grace. A person’s salvation is a result of both God and that person working together to accomplish the salvation of the person’s soul, which is escaping eternal spiritual death.  In the context of these passages, Paul’s