Posted on 06/09/2015 8:47:45 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Grace and mercy ping
Thanks to His mercy, he offers us Grace.
Mercy is God saving you from what you deserve. Grace is God providing you that which you do not deserve.
Amen
**Mercy and Grace: Are They the Same?**
Hardly.
See the next two posts.
In biblical language the condescension or benevolence (Greek charis) shown by God toward the human race; it is also the unmerited gift proceeding from this benevolent disposition. Grace, therefore, is a totally gratuitous gift on which man has absolutely no claim. Where on occasion the Scriptures speak of grace as pleasing charm or thanks for favors received, this is a derived and not primary use of the term.
As the Church has come to explain the meaning of grace, it refers to something more than the gifts of nature, such as creation or the blessings of bodily health. Grace is the supernatural gift that God, of his free benevolence, bestows on rational creatures for their eternal salvation. The gifts of grace are essentially supernatural. They surpass the being, powers, and claims of created nature, namely sanctifying grace, the infused virtues, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and actual grace. They are the indispensable means necessary to reach the beatific vision. In a secondary sense, grace also includes such blessings as the miraculous gifts of prophecy or healing, or the preternatural gifts of freedom from concupiscence.
The essence of grace, properly so called, is its gratuity, since no creature has a right to the beatific vision, and its finality or purpose is to lead one to eternal life. (Etym. Latin gratia, favor; a gift freely given.)
See Also: ACTUAL GRACE, See Also: EFFICACIOUS GRACE, See Also: GRATUITOUS GRACE, See Also: HABITUAL GRACE, See Also: JUSTIFYING GRACE, See Also: SACRAMENTAL GRACE, See Also: SANATING GRACE, See Also: SANCTIFYING GRACE, See Also: SUFFICIENT GRACE
Thanks mom, love the post :)
MERCY
The disposition to be kind and forgiving. Founded on compassion, mercy differs from compassion or the feeling of sympathy in putting this feeling into practice with a readiness to assist. It is therefore the ready willingness to help anyone in need, especially in need of pardon or reconciliation.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
Simple answer to the question is no....and why or how would they be confused?
I’ve heard of grace and faith being confused. Grace is pretty well defined on this thread; faith is believing what God tells you through his Word and by extension not accusing Him of being a liar.
Grace is receiving something you don’t deserve. Mercy is not receiving what you DO deserve.
While we are alive, Christ is perfect mercy. At the moment of our death (Particular judgment) Christ is perfect justice.
BFLR
From the article: “After his effort to run away from what God commissioned him to do, Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and eventually was deposited on the shores near Nineveh (Jonah 1 and 2). After preaching to the people of Nineveh about the need to repent, something happened that Jonah wasn’t expecting: The people of Nineveh repented, and God spared them (Jonah 3).”
REPENTANCE is the missing step on the road to REDEMPTION that I am increasingly hearing from the pulpit these days. Just praying for forgiveness of sins doesn’t get it in these trendy new cults masquerading as Christian Churches, in my opinion. We’re getting lotsa Gospel with very little Law.
I want both.
God’s Mercy is new every morning.
If it wasn’t for both of God’s Mercy and Grace all of us would have been consumed by the wrath of his all consuming fire of his justice and holiness.
Thank God that he is in the salvage saving business.
GRACE AND TRUTH ! CAME BY JESUS CHRIST, two sides of the same coin in one person.
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