What is the meaning of Ephesians 2 v 1-10?

Answer 1

We are saved by grace. First God reconciles individuals to Himself as an act of grace. The body of Christ is being built up out of unworthy, sinful people, to be an everlasting demonstration of the kindness of God. When God's work in us is completed, we will be creatures of unutterable bliss in a state of heavenly glory beyond anything we can now imagine. It will be God's work, not ours, and through the ages heaven will never cease to resound with the glad hallelujahs from the grateful hearts of the redeemed.

Additional Answer:

The Apostle Paul continues explaining his theme of how no 'Law" or act of man could save a person for eternal life. It happens because God wants it to be so by His Will called grace. But the peson must have 'faith' in Jesus' sacrifice as God desired. Then at the time of each individual's calling (see John 6:44;65), that person must fully repent and be baptized as Peter was inspired to tell us in Acts 3:19. We are then 'begotten' as Jesus was with God's Holy Spirit becoming eligible for eternal life in the spirit within the God Family:

Ephesians 2:8-10New King James Version (NKJV)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Answer 2

Ephesians is considered to be a pseudo-Pauline epistle written in the second half of the first century.

Ephesians 2:2 refers to "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." This was the devil, or perhaps the demiurge, who was thought to have total power over the earth.

Paul taught that salvation was by faith and good works, not by works of the law. The author of Ephesians seems to have misunderstood this, and does not speak about salvation apart from the works of the law, but speaks instead, of salvation apart from doing good deeds, about which we can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 takes up this theme: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. " This author indicates that believers have already been ‘saved’ by the grace of God and that we are created unto good works (2:10): "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."

The message of the passage is that, through Jesus Christ, God has the power to overcome the prince of the power of the air and offer salvation.