Originally Posted by
disciple
Hi DB,
When someone goes to a wake, you usually see the body lying in the casket. Have you ever seen the deceased get up and greet the mourners, comb his hair or straighten his tie. No, he can't do any of those things because he's dead.
“And you He made alive, who were dead in tresp***es and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in tresp***es, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)” Eph. 2:1,4-5
If someone is doing works before salvation, by what power are they doing these works or acts of obedience?