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an's will has some liberty to choose civil righteousness, and to work things subject to reason.

But it has no power, without the Holy Ghost, to work the righteousness of God, that is, spiritual righteousness...".

Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah (Christ) and believe that through his death and resurrection, humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.

These teachings emphasize that as the willing Lamb of God, Jesus chose to suffer on the cross at Calvary as a sign of his full obedience to the will of the Eternal Father, as an "agent and servant of God".

The choice Jesus made thus counter-positions him as a new man of morality and obedience, in contrast to Adam's disobedience.

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

Its basic harmonization principle is that the Bible is to be interpreted by itself: the parts that are harder to understand are examined in the light of other passages where the Bible is more explicit on the matter..

Solo Christo (Latin: by Christ alone) is one of the five solae that summarize the Protestant Reformers' basic belief that salvation is obtained through the atoning work of Christ alone, apart from individual works, and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man.

It holds that salvation cannot be obtained without Christ.