Grace has nothing to do with dying, it has to do with what happens after you die.
Is this an example of logic? Of reason? Of clear thinking?
Dying makes you dead. There can be no "after you die" without dying. Or, had that not ocurred to you?
The wages sin pays is--what?
The last enemy is what? The folly of human belief centers on the loss of life and the effort to circumvent dying.
The leverage God displayed in Eden was the wielding of DEATH as a consequence of disobedience and the Tree of Life was the presumable reward otherwise.
How silly to think that was what punishable by DEATH in Eden and for the next several millennia was SUDDENLY flipped with the novelty of GRACE!
God is the Destroyer of Worlds and that destruction is entirely involved in the DYING of human beings. Grace is King's X in the penalty phase.
Grace is NOT about pardoning ANYONE, it is about Love and just as we would wantingly give of ourselves for our children, God did the same for Us.
What rot! The basis for Love is Value. The greatest value produces the greatest Love. Why had God merrily extinguished human life at the Flood if He valued humanity WHILE SINFUL? Answer: Mankind in a sinful state had no Value, no merit and no basis for preservation.
Do you understand this at all? WHERE WAS LOVE when humanity was drowning? Love could not and did not trump JUSTICE!
What changed at Jesus death concerning man's value? The ludicrous manifestation of TRANSFERABLE VALUE? God seems to be toying with His own value system. The jury is rigged. Justice is thwarted. The criminal gets of scot free and the innocent man dies. All hardly a tribute to Supreme Values in a trancendant God.
Grace isn't about not having to say you are sorry, it's about recognising that you are sorry and all the apoligising in the world and acts of repentence won't change it, but Grace is what makes those acts of forgiveness and repentence MEAN something because they are done NOT because you want something or are trying to save yourself, they are done because it's the right thing to do and are done out of love.
Grace requires repentance, right? You don't have to say you are sorry to repent?
You need to think this through a little better to clear up your confusion.
A sinful person suddenly doing the right thing out of love is like a pig sprouting wings and flying.
This is why the church (St. Augustine) had to invent a way for a worthless wretch to sprout wings and repent. The church called it PREvenient Grace.
Prevenient grace is divine grace which precedes human decision. It exists prior to and without reference to anything humans may have done. As humans are corrupted by the effects of sin, prevenient grace allows persons to engage their God-given free will to choose the salvation offered by God in Jesus Christ or to reject that salvific offer. Whereas Augustine held that prevenient grace cannot be resisted, Wesleyan Arminians believe that it enables, but does not ensure, personal acceptance of the gift of salvation.
As you can clearly see, this nonsense consists of God causing man to suddenly want to do the right thing while tampering with free will, which I might add, is the very thing God was so desperate to include in Eden as part of man's test!
If LOVE was in Eden there would have been no need for Adam or Eve to die! Neither God nor mankind found love to be a trump card.
LOVE has nothing to do with all of this cosmetic persiflage.
If God valued free will in man he wouldn't interfere with it.
If God valued Justice he wouldn't punish the guiltless Jesus.
If God valued Justice he wouldn't grant favor to those who do not merit favor (sinful humans.)
Trying to create an over-ride and reboot on God's value system by calling it GRACE is just Deus ex machina.
