What are your thoughts about grace. Is grace earned or is it given freely?

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I think God gives everything freely.

I was reading a section in A Course in Miracles tonight which I think speaks to this. Jesus is speaking here about our tendency to feel we have to "do something" before we can accept atonement.

In the bible Grace is God's unmerited favour, He gives what we do not deserve and could not earn for oursleves, the opposite to this is called reward in the bible.

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Grace is unmerited favor, therefore it is something which cannot be earned. Just as the bible speaks about the "gift" of Eternal life given freely by Grace.

Grace is Us.

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A.Pinski

I believe that grace is a learned attribute, but that the propensity is put there by God, in much the same way as the the other gifts, like wisdom, are given. Wisdom too isn't something that someone just automatically has.

Grace is something that a person develops. I think that we consider it a gift from God because not everyone puts forth the effort to develop this trait.

Grace IS. We are already, but unless we "understanding" that we are already, Grace will not be our experience and we will not "stand under grace".

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Totally its free. There is no if, or, maybe about it. If you beleive in Jesus Christ then you have Grace fom Him for your belief. its because of the sacrifice Christ made. These are my beliefs. I truely believe a person is saved by Grace.

Now, who get the Grace? I think everyone will and can get it who acknowledges it and accepts it as the free gift it truely is. Will you go straight to heaven when you die if you didn't live a good life and you pray to God and ask for forgiveness then? Yes. Why? Because of the sacrifice of the one who offers the grace. This is what I have been taught and so this is what I believe. However, I also thing that someone who has always thought of it as foolishness will not even ask for forgiveness because to them it will still be foolishness. And when it all come down to the real truth only God really truely knows a persons heart. God is the one I have faith in. I do not try to tell God what to do or how to do it. Because the truth is we are all His creation and He has offered us free choice. I have never tried to do anothers persons job for them, so I surly do not try to tell God how to do His.

In heaven, there is supposed to be no more crying, no more pain, no more sickness, so If people are in heaven and they don't have all of these things and they don't feel non of the things caused by evilness, will we all care then anyway?

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