~It undermines personal responsibility. ~It indebts people unfairly.
~It does not teach people how to solve their own problems.
~It creates dependency.
~If you don’t give everyone equal relief from what they deserve, it becomes disparate treatment.
~Grace must not be so great or else we would be encouraged to sin so that it might abound.
~The soil for growing grace is evil and imperfection, so how can something good grow out of that?
~It’s just a manipulative to get better behavior out of people.
~People abuse it and those who are prone to give it.
Post-Show Thoughts: Those who get frustrated by grace because the individual doesn't get punished have made the principles of right and wrong into something more valuable than love. At the very core of God's nature is to express and experience love in relationship with us, and to complain about that as being a violation of justice is to care more for a principle than for people and what is best with them and God. That's the power of grace. It reconciles us to others and to God, which is the highest good. And one great blessing of marriage is the opportunity it gives us to continually practice divine grace toward our spouses by doing the one and only thing truly necessary to make marriage work and be a blessed union: treat our spouses better than they deserve.
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