It appears you are ignoring the words..the ones that describe Christ and Stephen the same way.
You dug a hole and you just can’t get out.
Sorry. No hole.
See eastsider’s wonderful treatise.
He augments the point I made earlier with his scholarly treatment of the subject.
It would be good for you to do a word study on “grace” - for two reasons:
So that you can rightly divide the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15) and second, so that you might see what God’s grace does to restore a sinner’s position. You will learn that it is entirely His work. Not ours.
It is by grace that I was saved.
The truth is hard to receive after being deceived for so long.
You can’t peddle your lies on me.