Grace vs. The Law

Okay, this time let us compare Grace with what is call “The Law” or the Law of Moses. The Law is actually quite different from Grace. Actually, calling Grace and the Law different is an understatement. They are so contrasting that comparing them is like comparing day and night.

I found this interesting article comparing Grace and the Law, and if we look at them side by side it does seem so contrasting. This is how the article compares them, “Law is God prohibiting and requiring; Grace is God beseeching and bestowing. Law is a ministry of condemnation; Grace, of forgiveness. Law curses; Grace redeems from that curse. Law kills; Grace makes alive. Law shuts every mouth before God; Grace opens every mouth to praise Him. Law puts a great and guilty distance between man and God; Grace makes guilty man nigh to God. Law says, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’; Grace says, ‘Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ Law says, ‘Hate thine enemy’; Grace says, ‘Love your enemies, bless them that despitefully use you.’ Law says, do and live; Grace says, believe and live. Law never had a missionary; Grace is to be preached to every creature. Law utterly condemns the best man; Grace freely justifies the worst. Law is a system of probation; Grace, of favor. Law stones an adulteress; Grace says, ‘Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.’ Under law the sheep dies for the shepherd: under Grace the Shepherd dies for the sheep.”

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