How did the catholic church, luther and calvin differ on the issue of salvation?

Luther and Calvin both proclaimed salvation as a gift of God's grace, rather than something earned by human efforts.  The Roman Catholic Church spoke of God's grace also, but as an enabling power that helped human beings do the works required for obtaining salvation.  The reformers (Luther and Calvin) still preached that we should do good works, but said those works were a fruit of being saved rather than a source of salvation.

Within the tradition of salvation by grace, there were key differences between Luther and Calvin, however.

Luther's emphasis was on what God's grace meant to the person who received that grace.  He focused on justification by grace alone, and the fact that sinners were seen as innocent in God's eyes because of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Luther had gone through his own personal struggle as a monk, feeling he was always under the judgment of God.  But then he came to realize, from Romans 1:16-17, that "in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed" that gives salvation apart from human works.  This personal experience became the focus of his theology -- salvation as the free gift of God that lifts sinners from despair.

Calvin also taught that salvation was entirely by God's grace, but his emphasis was on what that meant to our understanding of God.  As summarized by Evangelical Focus, "The real marvel of justification in Calvin’s thought was not that a sinner found himself (herself) pardoned from all iniquity but rather that God was being glorified through the salvation of such a transgressor.  "   So Calvin's emphasis in his teaching regarding salvation was as much about the glory of God as it was about the grace of God, while Luther focused on grace especially.

Another way of seeing how the difference between Luther and Calvin expressed itself would be to notice that Luther consistently emphasized the grace of God as the central point in all his teaching, where Calvin's central emphasis was on the sovereignty of God.   This showed itself in their differing views on predestination.  Both confessed, from the Bible, that God chose his believers from eternity, before time began.  Luther emphasized only a positive side to this -- that it was a teaching all about God's grace.  Calvin added a negative side to it also, that said God also chose from eternity the persons he would condemn to hell.  He saw this as a testimony to God's sovereign power and freedom of choice.

the beginning of the iditarod trail sled dog race. the iditarod trail sled dog race first ran to nome in 1973.   the trail they used is today known as the iditarod trail, first surveyed by the alaska road commission in 1908 and now one of the national historic trails as so designated by the congress of the united states.

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the children of nome were dying in january 1925. infected with diphtheria, they wheezed and gasped for air, and every day brought a new case of the lethal respiratory disease. nome’s lone physician, dr. curtis welch, feared an epidemic that could put the entire village of 1,400 at risk. he ordered a quarantine but knew that only an antitoxin serum could ward off the fast-spreading disease.the nearest batch of the life-saving medicine, however, rested more than 1,000 miles away in anchorage. nome’s ice-choked harbor made sea transport impossible, and open-cockpit airplanes could not fly in alaska’s subzero temperatures. with the nearest train station nearly 700 miles away in nenana, canine power offered nome its best hope for a speedy delivery.sled dogs regularly beat alaska’s snowy trails to deliver mail, and the territory’s governor, scott c. bone, recruited the best drivers and dog teams to stage a round-the-clock relay to transport the serum from nenana to nome. on the night of january 27, 1925, a train whistle pierced nenana’s stillness as it arrived with the precious cargo—a 20-pound package of serum wrapped in protective fur. musher “wild bill” shannon tied the parcel to his sled. as he gave the signal, the paws of shannon’s nine malamutes pounded the snow-packed trail on the first steps of a 674-mile “great race of mercy” through rugged wilderness, across frozen waterways and over treeless tundra.even by alaskan standards, this winter night packed extra bite, with temperatures plummeting to 60 degrees below zero fahrenheit. although every second was precious as the number of confirmed cases in nome mounted, shannon knew he needed to control his speed. if his dogs ran too fast and breathed too deeply in such frigid conditions, they could frost their lungs and die of exposure. although shannon ran next to the sled to raise his own body temperature, he still developed hypothermia and frostbite on the 52-mile leg to tolovana before handing off the serum to the second dog team.

question: write a report analyzing through articles of confederation.

answer: the articles of confederation the united states constitution was written when the people feared strong government the new nation needed some kind of organization to hold states together to them fend off future attacks and make a stronger support system through the states and people the states bonded through a friendship that best served as a defense against a invasion and states were not allowed to use taxes as a way to discourage treaties, and states were extremely limited in their dealings with foreign nations the strengths were that the congress has the highest power in the nation because of   fear of monarchy congress had the sole power to declare war and assign treaties disputes between states and territorial issues were to be brought to congress and weaknesses were the lack of power given to congress the articles gave congress the power to pass laws but no power to enforce those laws if a state did not support a federal law that state could simply ignore it congress had no power to levy taxes or regulate trade.

explanation: so like every argument they have strengths and weaknesses but in this case there were more weaknesses but they managed o get through it and make an agreement

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