Originally Posted by antlers
Originally Posted by efw
One must be balanced between law and grace for without one the other will inevitably fall.
A lot of churches, and a lot of ‘Christians’, seem to have an uneasy relationship with grace...when it comes to extending it to others. The Pharisees had the Law, and they lived by it, to extremes. They practiced it to the detriment of others. They were graceless. And Jesus called em’ out on it.


Right; agreed, although I would say that’s a malady that infects all of humanity not just Christians.

So you do recognize that there are two ways to fall off the horse?

If there is no law and everything is ok, what’s the need for grace? Grace implies an offense that requires forgiveness does it not?

Or is grace merely libertarian minding of ones own business?