The Way Evangelicals Understand Grace, You’d Think They Had Read The Book of Mormon

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During a cordial religious discussion with a close friend and well-read Assembly of God minister, the topic of grace came up. He said, “The Mormon notion of salvation by grace is completely different from ours.” My response was, “I’ll challenge that assumption and I will do it using only the Book of Mormon.” I then asked him to tell me what he understood about salvation by grace. When he finished, I told him that there was no difference from what he believed and what the Book of Mormon taught. What is Grace? Painting by Walter Rane, via LDS.org Grace is everything given to you over and above what you deserve. This is a more difficult concept for millennials to grasp due to a general sense of entitlement. In fact, you do not even deserve to be here on earth with a body and agency let alone your birth into highly privileged, even elite circumstances. Those are a gift from a God that is full of grace and truth. So grace...

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