Bible Question: I am trying to better understand the Grace of God. How it applies to the christian, the works, and application to living for the Lord. |
Bible Answer: Hi, gerroy... Welcome to the forum! Grace is most often defined as "unmerited favor." I rather prefer Wayne Grudem's more complete definition: "God's goodness toward those who deserve only punishment." Other theologians have described grace as follows: "Ascribed to God, grace is His voluntary, unrestrained, unmerited favor toward guilty sinners, granting them justification and life instead of the penalty of death, which they deserved." --Herman Bavinck "The grace of God is love freely shown towards guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. It is God showing goodness to persons who deserve only severity, and had no reason to expect anything but severity." --James I. Packer "Grace is defined Biblically as the demonstration of love/favor that is unearned, undeserved, and unrepayable; God imputes merit where none previously existed and declares no debt to be where one had been before. Grace is not dispensed on the basis of good works, including the good work of baptism." --Michael Horton You might find the following article by Jerry Bridges helpful: http://www.rts.edu/quarterly/fall98/grace.html In Him, Doc |
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