I certainly didn't know that German nouns have all capitals. I wonder why they do that?
I don't see anyone deifying grace and making it a 4th part of the Trinity...it looks like to me people are just saying that grace is the personification of Jesus Himself - well that's what I say , so I shouldn't speak for the others. The gospel is Jesus and grace is Jesus same as Jesus is the Truth.
Here are the scriptures where I get this from, ( they are in this post )
http://christianchat.com/bible-disc...growth-within-gods-people-18.html#post2650015
Maybe this is all semantics, or grammar or even logic.
But when you say something IS something else, it means they are one and the same.
I want to quote from Stanley Grenz's book "Theology for the Community of God." It is a awesome book, and I would highly recommend that everyone take a break from Internet videos from preachers with questionable theology, and spend a month or so, instead, reading this book. It really tells you not only about God, but about how we are to live in community but all the other "ologies" including where sin and repentance fit into the scheme of being a Christian and walking with God (and yes, we do need to continue to confess our sins, and that does not make us morose or miserable, but in fact acknowledges that we do still live in this sin filled world, and our sancitifcation is not yet finished). In fact, I am going to try and spend some time re-reading it today!
"The New Testament (specifically 1 John 4:7-21) suggest that the ontological unity which the [Father, Son and Holy Spirit] constitute and therefore which comprises the divine essence is agape (love). This does not mean, however that love itself is God. In the original Greek, John's construction is carefully written, so as to state that "God is as to character love." While God is love, love cannot be God. Love is a relational term which presupposes someone who loves and someone who is loved. Therefore, love has no objective existance apart from being the relation between the lover and the beloved."
So God is love (not equals). But love is not God. (Love does not equal God)
Once again, Jesus is NOT grace, but he does give grace. Jesus is a person, but he is also God. You cannot take an attribute and claim it is Jesus. That is heresy.
If one was going to "personify" grace, that would be making grace into a PERSON. However, that is not what is happening in this thread and in this forum.
In fact, grace is being deified, or made into deity. Again, because Jesus is deity. He is God. Another word for trying to make grace into Jesus, in the Bible is blasphemy. You simply cannot take the attributes of God, and make them into God. As others have said, that leaves out the other important attributes of the character of God, and makes God in fact, less than he is.
God gives us grace, but he is not grace. He is the giver of all things gracious, including salvation, but the giver is not the gift. And that is because the giver is so much more than the gift! Jesus is God. Grace is not!