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Originally Posted by XBlackWaterX Common Grace anyone? | If, by Common Grace, you mean that God brings rain on the just and the unjust alike, that He grants temporal gifts to the reprobate as well as the elect, so on and so forth, I can agree with you (though I wouldn't call it grace). However, all of those "gifts" simply serve to fit the reprobate for destruction and make them all the riper for judgment. So I believe Common Grace is an insufficient term to describe the temporal "good things of the earth" God gives to all creatures made in His image.
If you're interested, there's a very good article that touches upon this briefly by our very own Rev. Winzer (armourbearer): Is there a Free Offer or just a command to repent and believe. | Do these "gifts" not come from the grace of God?
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