I think we go wrong from start on this topic, since we all think of grace at least a little differently. A calvinist thinks of grace as compulsory salvation, and all reformation theology is tainted by that view of grace, which is not really grace at all, but a perverse view of mercy. Most evangelicals are influenced by the reformation's view of grace as being limited to mercy, which is undoubtedly a component of grace.
It seems as though grace is being viewed in this topic as forgiveness, and freedom, and again those are components. Even in that view the overall context of the whole Bible points to positive freedom that leaves us free to walk with God, more than just being free from whatever we want to invoke our freedom against. But Biblically even that falls short.
2 Cor 9:8 says that God makes grace abound so that we can abound in every good work. By that view grace is not freedom from, but empowerment to. So the view that there is no such thing as too much grace is correct, when grace is understood Biblically.
Striving for superficial piety and idolatry in the name of "grace" both kill equally.
It seems as though grace is being viewed in this topic as forgiveness, and freedom, and again those are components. Even in that view the overall context of the whole Bible points to positive freedom that leaves us free to walk with God, more than just being free from whatever we want to invoke our freedom against. But Biblically even that falls short.
2 Cor 9:8 says that God makes grace abound so that we can abound in every good work. By that view grace is not freedom from, but empowerment to. So the view that there is no such thing as too much grace is correct, when grace is understood Biblically.
Striving for superficial piety and idolatry in the name of "grace" both kill equally.
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