Which is more natural: イエス様の救う恵み or 救うイエス様の恵み?


I'm trying to translate "Jesus's saving grace". Translating directly from
English, the phrase that comes to mind is:

> イエス様の救っている恵み

But I get the feeling that maybe it's more natural and articulate to put the
verb first and the noun modifier second:

> 救っているイエス様の恵み

In English, this sort of ordering would amount to "saving Jesus's grace",
which is not what's intended, but maybe it's more natural and people would
understand what it really means.

So I almost asked this question to see which of those two would be more
natural, but now I'm also starting to think that maybe instead of using 救っている,
I should use 救う. Is this so? What's the most natural, articulate way to say
this? Thanks!




As a Christian who worked at a Japanese church, I can say that `イエス様の救う恵み` and
`救うイエス様の恵み` are both fine, although the latter is somewhat ambiguous in
parsing, i.e., it could be parsed as either

>   * 救う(イエス様の恵み) → Jesus' grace that saves.  
>  OR
>   * (救うイエス様)の恵み → The grace of Jesus, who saves.
>

To disambiguate it, you could add in a その

>   * 救う **その** イエス様の恵み
>

Either way, the phrase beginning with 救う sounds more refined/formal to my ear.
And of course, if you're saying this in a more familiar setting (like to other
Christians), you can leave off 様 completely.

And not to dump on @Tim's answer, but I have never heard any Japanese
Christian use `神の加護`. Sounds way too dictionary and impersonal.




As a Christian who worked at a Japanese church, I can say that `イエス様の救う恵み` and
`救うイエス様の恵み` are both fine, although the latter is somewhat ambiguous in
parsing, i.e., it could be parsed as either

>   * 救う(イエス様の恵み) → Jesus' grace that saves.  
>  OR
>   * (救うイエス様)の恵み → The grace of Jesus, who saves.
>

To disambiguate it, you could add in a その

>   * 救う **その** イエス様の恵み
>

Either way, the phrase beginning with 救う sounds more refined/formal to my ear.
And of course, if you're saying this in a more familiar setting (like to other
Christians), you can leave off 様 completely.

And not to dump on @Tim's answer, but I have never heard any Japanese
Christian use `神の加護`. Sounds way too dictionary and impersonal.

