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How can it not!!? Grace is a blessing in all forms! If I give you grace, you will feel blessed, and vice versa. Any grace from God IS a blessing. If it were not a blessing, it was not grace.
Philippians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Grace is not a blessing, grace is a gift:Thanks, but I was hoping to get the LDS view. That's why it's asked here in non-Christian relgions.
How can it not!!? Grace is a blessing in all forms! If I give you grace, you will feel blessed, and vice versa. Any grace from God IS a blessing. If it were not a blessing, it was not grace.
Philippians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Grace is not a blessing, grace is a gift:
People are blessed for various reasons:That is absolute truth and such a contrast to what He is the way claims. How on earth can anyone deny that grace is a blessing?
However, do they all really believe that all gifts have to be earned?
Mormon Prophet Harold B. Lee taught:
The Savior’s blood, His atonement, will save us, but only after we have done all we can to save ourselves by keeping His commandments. All of the principles of the gospel are principles of promise by which the plans of the Almighty are unfolded to us.8
Each must do all he can to save himself from sin; then he may lay claim to the blessings of redemption by the Holy One of Israel, that all mankind may be saved by obedience to the law and ordinances of the gospel.
8. Stand Ye in Holy Places
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org...pdf/language-materials/35892_eng.pdf?lang=eng
"The Savior’s blood, His atonement, will save us, but only after we have done all we can to save ourselves by keeping His commandments. All of the principles of the gospel are principles of promise by which the plans of the Almighty are unfolded to us."
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Isn't a gift and a blessing the same thing? Here are definitions from Oxford Dictionary:Grace is not a blessing, grace is a gift:
God gives blessings to those who deserve blessings:Isn't a gift and a blessing the same thing? Here are definitions from Oxford Dictionary:
A gift is "a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present."
A blessing is "God's favor and protection."
So, the only difference is that that a blessing is a gift given specifically by God.
When you say Grace is a gift but not a blessing, it's like saying it is a gift given by someone other than God!!
Blessings are earned, gifts are not.Mormons don't know what grace is. The author of D&C doesn't understand the Bible either.
Your thoughts are really far out when you deny that grace is a blessing as are all God's gifts!
Blessings are earned, gifts are not.
Yes God does show mercy, not to him that willeth, not him that runneth, but him that obeyeth.Mormonism teaches that blessings must be earned. The Bible teaches that what we earn is death.
Romans 9
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Blessings are earned, gifts are not.
Blessings, whether in this life or the next life, are earned by obedience as stated in the Bible:Everthing we have is from God. We didn't earn our blessings. God chose to give them to us. Why did He give blessings to certain people?
He blessed Israel even though they often disobeyed. And sometimes very good people suffer tremendous hardships.
Joh 14:15-16 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, that He may be with you forever:Blessings, whether in this life or the next life, are earned by obedience as stated in the Bible:
Joh 14:15-16 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, that He may be with you forever:
Act 5:32 We are His witnesses to these words, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”