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John Kluge's avatar

For Grace to have any meaning requires admitting that we are all sinners and effectively equal in the eyes of God. From our perspective, there is an ocean of difference between an ordinary decent person and the worst and most violent criminal. From God's perspective, we are all sinners and our differences in achievements and flaws and sins so slight in comparison to an omniscient and omnipotent God to be effectively nonexistent. To believe and appreciate Grace is to admit to yourself how badly you need it. Doing that means understanding how much alike we all are. People being people are often loath to do that. It is better to pretend that we have earned our salivation due to our superiority or efforts.

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Rudy Schellekens's avatar

Some time ago, I read an interesting article on Grace. What it emphasized was not so much the "actual gift," but dealt more with the one bestowing the grace. The fact that God is willing to share of His abundance in care for His creation is willing and acting with the gift of grace.

It is not some "glitzy, o my stars what a gift gift," but that God is willing and able to share of His goodness to those who have hurt Him, ignored Him, denied Him, ridiculed Him.

In spite of all of those acts and statements AGAINST Him, He still gives us His Goodness,,,

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