Danger of Screwing up tooo much?

Friday, 10. February 2006, 14:34:10

TB: Some people say that if you preach grace a lot, people will get the idea that they can go ahead and sin all they want and still be saved. What would you say about that?

RC:

First of all, I would say they’re perfectly free to sin all they want whether you give them permission or not.

But the thing that they are not free to achieve on their own is their own forgiveness, and that is what is already done. They simply have to accept that in Jesus, God has forgiven their sins.

Jesus is the Word of God incarnate. The incarnation has been in the works from the beginning. The incarnation is from the foundation of the world—no, before the foundation of the world. The incarnation is not an afterthought.

God didn’t say, "Uh-oh, I’ve got to do something now," after Adam and Eve ate from the tree.

The incarnation is built into the fabric of the creation from before time began. So after sin came into the picture, history simply becomes the restoration of the human race to God in Christ.

Can one take Grace too far???God in their own image???