The Foundation for GraceGuy.org
- Jesus Christ is the complete manifestation of biblical Truth and Grace and its central theme. He is the Son of, and the only way to, a Holy God. Therefore, it is all through Christ alone, by His grace alone through my faith alone.
- The Bible is the foundation of Truth and the sole inspired self–revelation of the one true God. Religion describes humankind’s search for God through works, the biblical Gospel describes the way God reached down to humanity through Grace.
- The Bible has a unified message and purpose. It does not contradict itself, though it does contain difficult and paradoxical passages. Thus, the best interpreter of the Bible is the Bible itself.
- Since the Bible is understandable by the average human mind and uses normal human communication forms and techniques, no additional commentaries or interpretations were used to establish the concepts presented here - just (really) thorough reading and direct reflecting of the verses' explicit meaning.
- If the verses don't include the word 'grace' in the translation you are using, it's normal. I used the original Hebrew and Greek texts as my reference points:
- In Old Testament Hebrew, the three-part divine self-description of Exodus 34:6-7 is used as the basis: A) the instances of the root transliterated word hnn with its derivatives (the verb hanan, the nouns hen, tehinnâ, tahanûnîm, and hanînâ, and the adjective hannûn). B) the instances of the word ḥesed. And C) the word raḥûm or rḥm.
- In New Testament Greek, the transliterated root word charis and its derivatives are used.
- The lists are presented by topic and in order of appearance in the standard biblical text. Also, the verse references are based on the New King James version. It may be that the references in your version are one or two verses away, especially in the book of Psalms (Ps).
- This site does NOT seek to idolize Grace itself. My desire is to discover it, study it, understand it, taste it, apply it, share it and ultimately give God continual glory for it.
- This is a lifetime project and, as such, it will never be complete. Therefore, updates to this website will be frequent, particularly in the Blog. If your favorite Bible verse on Grace is not here - participate!