What is grace?

[Xeno.of.athens]

Is grace about delightful movements, very good manners, generosity, kindness, gifts?

How do you think of grace and what definition would you give for the word?

 

[FireDragon76]

"Grace" has many meanings. In the New Testament, it refers to God's favor.

 

[d taylor]

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In relation to God and humans.
It is God paying for our sin, so that man may receive the Life of God freely, with out cost.
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

"Grace" has many meanings. In the New Testament, it refers to God's favor.

Only to God's favour? Nothing else?

 

[disciple Clint]

Is grace about delightful movements, very good manners, generosity, kindness, gifts?

How do you think of grace and what definition would you give for the word?

The classic understanding is that grace is unmerited favor

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

The classic understanding is that grace is unmerited favor

Does that exhaust its meaning?

 

[Soyeong]

Is grace about delightful movements, very good manners, generosity, kindness, gifts?

How do you think of grace and what definition would you give for the word?

God wants to bless us and He gives us this gift by teaching us how to live blessed lives through walking in His way. In Psalms 119:29-30, David wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faithfulness, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him His way that he might know Him and Israel too, and in John 17:3, knowing God and Jesus is eternal life, which is again salvation by grace through faith. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so God graciously teaching us to obey His law is itself the content of His gift of salvation.

 

[disciple Clint]

Does that exhaust its meaning?

would you like to add something?

 

[IoanC]

God's Mercy/Uncreated Energies.

 

[IoanC]

God's Mercy/Uncreated Energies.

God's (undeserved) Gift.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

would you like to add something?

Yes, the gifts God gives to his creatures are graces, and the gift he gives in Jesus Christ is his great gift of pure grace.

 

[Clare73]

Is grace about delightful movements, very good manners, generosity, kindness, gifts?

How do you think of grace and what definition would you give for the word?

God's unmerited favor.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

God's unmerited favor.

Does that exhaust its meaning?

 

[timothyu]

In reference to God, it means letting us off the hook. In human terms it refers to a way of acting with refinement.

 

[Douglas Brian McIntire]

God's unmerited favor.

Grace is God's unmerited favor to live for Him through faithfully adhering to the instruction of the Messiah, Jesus. That is the Grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Clare73]

Does that exhaust its meaning?

Not if you can think of something that it does not cover?

 

[Clare73]

Grace is God's unmerited favor to live for Him through faithfully adhering to the instruction of the Messiah, Jesus. That is the Grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Actually, it begins with unmerited rebirth by the sovereign decision of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:7-8), proceeds to the unmerited gift of faith (Php 1:29, Ac 13:48, Ac 18:27, 2 Pe 1:1, Ro 12:3) and unmerited salvation (Eph 2:8-9).

 

[timothyu]

God kicked us out of the Garden and confined us to this world, with death our final option. He then, out of grace, gave us a second chance, the Kingdom to come and threw in a King to go along with it where death became the first death but resurrection (part of the Kingdom gift) gavve us opportunity to enter the Kingdom or face the second death. Both were dependant upon our fruits while here, whether we would follow our own will or the will of the Father.. something A&E failed to do. Is our allegiance to God's will or to ourselves and the world we have made in our own image?

 

[Clare73]

God kicked us out of the Garden and confined us to this world, with death our final option. He then, out of grace, gave us a second chance, the Kingdom to come and threw in a King to go along with it where death became the first death but resurrection (part of the Kingdom gift) gavve us opportunity to enter the Kingdom or face the second death. Both were dependant upon our fruits while here,

They aren't our fruits, they are God's fruits within us.

whether we would follow our own will or the will of the Father.. something A&E failed to do. Is our allegiance to God's will or to ourselves and the world we have made in our own image?

If your allegiance isn't to God's will, you are not born again.

 

[timothyu]

They aren't our fruits, they are God's fruits within us.

So we prove our worthiness by using someone else's fruits to prove we are allied. That's the same as saying His will, not ours as I have been saying.