I guess we will all have to disagree then...Respectfully of course...
Grace is not something I believe is limited to what the writers of the Gospels have believed it to mean.
That to me is the great thing about God in that repeatedly I see a pattern of mankind thinking they know the will of God, yest somehow God always seems to have other ideas in store for us.
To say that God's grace is dependant on a human being accepting it to me is wrong. \God chose people, sinners, throughout the old testamant. They did not choose God. God picked them, with all of their deficits. Again and again the story repeats itself. God chooses.
Grace is not something I believe is limited to what the writers of the Gospels have believed it to mean.
That to me is the great thing about God in that repeatedly I see a pattern of mankind thinking they know the will of God, yest somehow God always seems to have other ideas in store for us.
To say that God's grace is dependant on a human being accepting it to me is wrong. \God chose people, sinners, throughout the old testamant. They did not choose God. God picked them, with all of their deficits. Again and again the story repeats itself. God chooses.