Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Col.1:2 to the saints and faithful brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Can a Christian's have peace with God without grace? Let us talk about grace many Christian's do not understand the word accept to hear it at a church or in a song.

The word grace means unmerited kindness, or undeserved kindness, so the question is can we have peace with God if we are not under unmerited kindness? No! Without grace there is no peace with God, so the apostle Paul always spoke of the grace/unmerited kindness that was shown him.

Unmerited loving kindness is Christ Jesus in real terms of God giving us his precious life so we might stand aright before God because of our sinning against His righteous laws. In other words, there is no peace with God without atonement for our sins. Where Christian's or a groups of Christian's try to earn peace with God by good works they cannot, although, they may feel right in themselves in meeting high standards of a group, they cannot stand before YHWH by their own rightness, or that of the group rules.

Paul came from such a group bent on meeting (Jews) laws, however, he founds himself wanting and a persecutor of Christ Jesus, and his followers because he was not under the unmerited kindness of God's love, in Christ Jesus, too us.

Let none of us be so deceived into blindness producing hate by the rules of a group, when no one can stand as a group, but just as it is written, individually in God great kindness too us by unmerited gift of His kindness.