[svcw]

interesting. My husbands cousin is a nun and she has never said that. She talks about Grace and Grace alone.

[raygun]

I'm not going to dispute your husband's cousin's sincerety. The issue from a Protestant perspective boils down to a matter of grace and grace alone.

The wages of sin are death

From an entirely Scriptural perspective grace is the act of unmerited benifacting.

From an entirely Scriptural perspective, mercy is an act of unmerited reprival of penalty due to merited justice.

Jno 3:16 tells us what?