Anonymous
05/19/2014 23:12
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is Grace the indescribable feeling of forgiveness and faith more the action on the part of the person?
Would Faith be believing you will have a child after experiencing infertility?
OP, I do not believe that this is an example of faith. It may be your hope, but just because we want something very badly does not mean that it will come to pass. You have hope, but not faith, in this situation.
Faith is trusting that no matter what happens, God's will is perfect and will be fulfilled in your life, no matter what the circumstances.
According to this line of thinking, all the praying in the world to have a baby won't work if God, in his perfect will, doesn't want it to happen. He has his reasons and you won't understand them until you get to heaven -- if you're good.
Anonymous
05/19/2014 23:10
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a non-believer, but I have survived many experiences that, going by the odds, shold have killed me. Does that mean I have grace (Hail me, full of grace)?
I'll stick with calling it luck -- and if you ask why I, in particular, have such good luck, it's because the improbable is not impossible. By definition, something with a 1% probablity happens one time in a hundred (in the long run, at least), and there is nothing remarkable about it.
Or maybe the multiple universe hypothesis is corrrect, and there are a heck of a lot more universes in which I'm dead.
How about that, through God's mercy and love, you have been spared for a reason and you are being given a second chance (or third or whatever) to get to know God in this lifetime, to eventually experience eternity with Him. Yes, I would say that is the ultimate in grace.
But if you're not spared, you could get to heaven sooner and spend even more time in eternity. It's a wonder true believers aren't eager to die young to bask in God's glory
Anonymous
05/19/2014 21:26
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Is Grace the indescribable feeling of forgiveness and faith more the action on the part of the person?
Would Faith be believing you will have a child after experiencing infertility?
OP, I do not believe that this is an example of faith. It may be your hope, but just because we want something very badly does not mean that it will come to pass. You have hope, but not faith, in this situation.
Faith is trusting that no matter what happens, God's will is perfect and will be fulfilled in your life, no matter what the circumstances.
Anonymous
05/19/2014 21:23
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:I'm a non-believer, but I have survived many experiences that, going by the odds, shold have killed me. Does that mean I have grace (Hail me, full of grace)?
I'll stick with calling it luck -- and if you ask why I, in particular, have such good luck, it's because the improbable is not impossible. By definition, something with a 1% probablity happens one time in a hundred (in the long run, at least), and there is nothing remarkable about it.
Or maybe the multiple universe hypothesis is corrrect, and there are a heck of a lot more universes in which I'm dead.
How about that, through God's mercy and love, you have been spared for a reason and you are being given a second chance (or third or whatever) to get to know God in this lifetime, to eventually experience eternity with Him. Yes, I would say that is the ultimate in grace.
Anonymous
05/19/2014 19:34
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:guess god likes some people and not others.
Why would you assume that?
Unless you hate God and want to try to give him a bad rep? Pretty sure that only works with people who aren't already religious.
With so many people worshipping and adoring God and him being the ruler of the universe, I'm sure one hater couldn't give him a bad rep.
Anonymous
05/19/2014 19:29
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:guess god likes some people and not others.
Why would you assume that?
Unless you hate God and want to try to give him a bad rep? Pretty sure that only works with people who aren't already religious.
you can hate what you don't believe in
You CAN'T hate.....
Anonymous
05/18/2014 11:30
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
I'm a non-believer, but I have survived many experiences that, going by the odds, shold have killed me. Does that mean I have grace (Hail me, full of grace)?
I'll stick with calling it luck -- and if you ask why I, in particular, have such good luck, it's because the improbable is not impossible. By definition, something with a 1% probablity happens one time in a hundred (in the long run, at least), and there is nothing remarkable about it.
Or maybe the multiple universe hypothesis is corrrect, and there are a heck of a lot more universes in which I'm dead.
I'll stick with calling it luck -- and if you ask why I, in particular, have such good luck, it's because the improbable is not impossible. By definition, something with a 1% probablity happens one time in a hundred (in the long run, at least), and there is nothing remarkable about it.
Or maybe the multiple universe hypothesis is corrrect, and there are a heck of a lot more universes in which I'm dead.
Anonymous
05/17/2014 23:29
Subject: Re:How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Grace is the undeserved love of God. Faith is our belief in the unseen (God, afterlife, etc.).
plus hell, demons, fairies, ghosts, etc.
Anonymous
05/17/2014 23:27
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:guess god likes some people and not others.
Why would you assume that?
Unless you hate God and want to try to give him a bad rep? Pretty sure that only works with people who aren't already religious.
you can hate what you don't believe in
Anonymous
05/17/2014 21:10
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:guess god likes some people and not others.
Why would you assume that?
Unless you hate God and want to try to give him a bad rep? Pretty sure that only works with people who aren't already religious.
Anonymous
05/17/2014 21:02
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
guess god likes some people and not others.
Anonymous
05/17/2014 13:04
Subject: Re:How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Grace is the undeserved love of God. Faith is our belief in the unseen (God, afterlife, etc.).
+1
I experienced Grace my entire life, whether I realized or appreciated it or not. I was saved (lower case not Saved) by God's Grace more times than I can count.
My faith wavered in my teens and early 20s. It is very strong now.
Anonymous
05/17/2014 11:00
Subject: Re:How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Grace is the undeserved love of God. Faith is our belief in the unseen (God, afterlife, etc.).
Anonymous
05/17/2014 10:53
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Grace is believing that you are being watched over and that things happen for the best. Sometimes that is recognizable and sometimes it's not (which is where faith comes in).
Anonymous
05/17/2014 10:44
Subject: How do you relate Faith vs. Grace to experiences in your life?
Is Grace the indescribable feeling of forgiveness and faith more the action on the part of the person?
Would Faith be believing you will have a child after experiencing infertility?
Would Faith be believing you will have a child after experiencing infertility?