NO MERIT

This is the index to a group of posts on the subject of whether salvation, and all that follows it, is judged by personal merit at all--either our own merit or that of Christ (or others). Links will be added as future posts are written.

• Introduction: About Merit and Justice
• Friendship and Merit
• A Brief History of Merit
• God and Our Merit
• Is Salvation a Merit Transaction?
  • What is Salvation?
  • Does Jesus Buy Our Salvation with His Merit?
  • The Question of Confession
  • Repentance and Salvation: What is Repentance?
  • Aren’t Acts Showing Repentance Meritorious?
• Does Sanctification Involve Merit?
• Merit and Eternal Reward
• Conclusion
• Related Posts (already written):
  • No Merit—the Golden Key to Freedom in Christ
  • We Are Called to Live Out the Truth of Our Oneness
  • Why Jesus’ Full Humanity is Important, and series following.
  • “Unless You Repent, You Will All Perish,” the Parable of the Spared Fig Tree, and the problem of evil in Luke 13:1-9
  • The Bad Example of Balaam
  • God Rejected King Saul, But Declared King David a Man After His Own Heart. Didn’t God Get this Backwards?
  • On the Other Extreme—1 Timothy 4 and Colossians 2
  • The Bad Example of Cain
  • Jesus’ Words about Dependence on God in the Sermon on the Mount
  • The Crediting of Righteousness to Abraham and the Question whether Jesus Died for Our Weaknesses or for for Our Discrete Sins Only–Romans 4:25
  • Works worthy of repentance in Acts 26:20
  • From Early Christianity to Islam and Back—1. The Earliest Christianity
  • From Early Christianity to Islam and Back—2. Negative Developments in Christianity Before Muhammad

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