Today during a conversation with my son, I was confronted with a great theological question: do we mistake grace for niceness?
Context: my son is in kindergarten and receives a daily behavioral sheet which lets parents know how they did. Pink is the best, Blue is next, Green is neutral, Yellow means a comment from the teacher, and Red means the teacher needs to talk to the parent. When asked what color he got, my son stated that everyone in the class got blue except for two students, a boy and a girl, who ended the day on yellow, but "[a girl] went home with blue because [the teacher] was nice, but she should have had yellow."
Here, he equated the teacher's grace to niceness. Is grace (unmerited favor) nice? When we reflect on God's grace, does that make God nice? Does that mean that when grace is not received it is mean?
Context: my son is in kindergarten and receives a daily behavioral sheet which lets parents know how they did. Pink is the best, Blue is next, Green is neutral, Yellow means a comment from the teacher, and Red means the teacher needs to talk to the parent. When asked what color he got, my son stated that everyone in the class got blue except for two students, a boy and a girl, who ended the day on yellow, but "[a girl] went home with blue because [the teacher] was nice, but she should have had yellow."
Here, he equated the teacher's grace to niceness. Is grace (unmerited favor) nice? When we reflect on God's grace, does that make God nice? Does that mean that when grace is not received it is mean?
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