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Re: True or False: Grace is harder than Law
This thread is built upon false understandings of grace and the law (dispensationalism). No one has ever found salvation through the law, but it has always been by grace through faith. So if you ask me is the law easier, then I would say no. By the law, no one will be saved. The law was not given for our salvation, but instead it was to guide us to salvation.
If you think about it, salvation has always been by God's grace. Those in the OT where under the law, but yet they where still saved by grace the same as us. The law didn't save them, but it only foreshadowed better things to come. Grace was not revealed until incarnate Christ came, but that grace was shed from the foundation of the world in the mind and will of God. They found salvation by grace through faith (faith caused them to want to keep the law, but it was only Christ sacrifice that put an end to their sin).
So is grace harder than the law? No. Grace is the work of God, and the law was only to point the way to that grace. We are just as much expected to be holy in our lives (no more and no less) as they in the OT (no difference aside from the ceremonial part of things). The flesh is no different today then it ever has been. We wrestle against our flesh just like everyone before us.
Today, we have the knowledge that God will not receive us based upon our own righteousness. It is the righteousness of God that we need in our lives. In the day the Lord has prepared, the work of grace will be completed in us (to hear him say well done).
The law and salvation through works only brings false security. Salvation has always been by grace through faith. No person has ever been good enough! I learn this message everyday that I live. Paul said when he did good evil was present. We are vexed with the flesh so long as we are in this life. We depend on God's grace the same as everyone from Adam to present. Salvation is only by grace and through faith, and nothing else.
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