[Bible] How Would You Interpret Grace?
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October 10th, 2009
I read this comparing bible versions:
• What is grace in this context and what does it mean to you?
Forgiveness, the dichotomy of sin, God’s power, honesty?
As in “Every sin has it’s grace”. Is sin and grace bound together in dual relation?
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Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the
offence might bound. But where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound:
Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Grace is the intent to avoid judgment.
If not to the individual or circumstance, it is to direct others to turn the other cheek, not pass judgment on others.
To forgive and give another chance.
Grace: is the help of strength given through the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the grace of God, everyone who has lived with be resurrected-our spirits will be reunited with our bodies, never again to be separated. Through His grace, the Lord also enables those who live His gospel to repent and be forgiven.
ahhh, there was a nice and tidy answer we learned in class once, but I forget . . . in these verses, grace seems to be synonomous with mercy, if that helps.
I have a cousin Grace and she’s pretty difficult to interpret.
Grace is getting something you do not deserve; mercy is not getting what you do deserve.
@valdasta – so both are kinds of compassion, I guess.
Agreed with @valdasta, yet I would ad that Grace is “getting something you do not deserve” at the expense of another because you could never have ever done enough to earn it for yourself anyway.
So the child with cancer can become an honorary member of the New York Mets is an act of grace.
@efritz I would say so.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies…or in a Biblical sense: Grace is: getting the forgiveness of sins, eternal salvation, home in heaven, and all the fringe benefits of being a child of God at the expense of what Jesus did on the cross for us. Mercy is: God withholding deserved judgment, and not rewarding us according to our sins.
Grace is Gods free and undeserved love for us. No strings attached. The law pointed out to us that we needed Grace. Grace is a free gift that many choose to reject.
I see the word undeserved. As if there is a decision of one or the other.
God loves all, even the bad ones. We see it as “undeserved” because we would say, “I would not be nice to that person.”
God does not hate anyone.
God is love.
Ok, now and then God has “work” to do. Nothing personal, it is just business.
Grace is understanding that we just are loved and forgiven. The grace comes from within ourselves. When we come to see that it is ok to “let go” of the pain, suffering and guilt. We get grace.
It is not necessarily something that God hands out to us.
It is something we always had.
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