Merit Point Dispute in various of Christian Branches

[littlestar777]

The role of human merit in Christian life is a point of dispute between Catholics and Protestants.

Reformed doctrine, on the other hand, puts more emphasis on the merit of Christ that humans receive through divine grace.[5] Protestants generally teach that merit can never be used to earn or achieve salvation: "Because Christians are justified by faith alone, their standing before God is not in any way related to personal merit. Good works and practical holiness do not provide the grounds for acceptance with God."[6] "The only merit God accepts for salvation is that of Jesus Christ; nothing man can ever do could earn God's favor or add anything to the merit of Christ."[7]

Merit (Wikipedia)

Q) Any further reading of the Protestant stories above and the detail story behind?

 

[BobRyan]

Both Arminian and Calvinist groups agree that only Christ's life and merit satisfy the demand of the perfect law of God. But on what basis is Christ's merit applied to the sinner?

1. Is it a system of "arbitrary selection" where God picks one person over another on a whim??
2. Or is it the "by their fruits you shall know them" system of Matt 7. Where the fruit of the tree exposes the kind of tree that it is?

Arminians will say it is the second case.

Both Arminians and Christians will say that someone has to accept the Gospel to be a born-again Christian. But they differ on whether God has the ability to enable a lost person to accept the Gospel or whether God must first cause the lost person to be born-again before he has enough power to then get them to accept the Gospel.

 

[Jonaitis]

The role of human merit in Christian life is a point of dispute between Catholics and Protestants.

Reformed doctrine, on the other hand, puts more emphasis on the merit of Christ that humans receive through divine grace.[5] Protestants generally teach that merit can never be used to earn or achieve salvation: "Because Christians are justified by faith alone, their standing before God is not in any way related to personal merit. Good works and practical holiness do not provide the grounds for acceptance with God."[6] "The only merit God accepts for salvation is that of Jesus Christ; nothing man can ever do could earn God's favor or add anything to the merit of Christ."[7]

Merit (Wikipedia)

Q) Any further reading of the Protestant stories above and the detail story behind?

Well, if you are curious, read up on 1) the Five Solas, 2) the Doctrines of Grace, 3) Monergism, 4) Substitutionary Atonement. All four of these concepts are Reformed doctrines, and are interconnected.