The biblical doctrine of justification by grace through faith has always been subject to misunderstanding, misinterpretation and intentional distortion. We saw last time that grace does not encourage people to sin: grace delivers us FROM sin. A second objection to grace, which Paul takes up in these verses, is very similar but slightly different. It is the idea that while free grace may not actually encourage people to sin, this doctrine of grace makes the law irrelevant and sin unimportant. Grace makes sin no big deal. Paul answers this objection, as he did the first, with the strongest negative available in human language...
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Pastor Bruce Ray has been senior pastor of Juanita Community Church in Kirkland, Washington since 1976. He also serves as a Police, Fire & EMS chaplain. Books include Withhold Not Correction and Celebrating the Sabbath (both published by P&R Publishing). He is a member of the...
