Though I never knew there were different interpretations to grace. It's sad the church is so divided. In the end one has to read the bible for oneself and ask God for understanding. Sigh
You have chosen a wise path in my opinion to always remain personally objective, while analysing the subjective.
Though scriptural fundamentals will congeal to denominational foundations in variance which is subjective in each position, it is quite critical for each person to pray, weigh what is taught, measure it by scripture, and objectively resonate to increasing truth.
For me personally, grace is often moved to unnecessary complexity, for it is in my opinion the simplest of truths.
If I say;
"A man climbed up the mountain"
"A man scaled up the mountain"
"A man traversed up the mountain",
then it can be plain to see that a man made his way up the mountain, and if one is to dissect the difference of "climbing, scaling and traversing" to infinite variations only to argue merits of mountain climbing it becomes a futile point; for the sentence was designed to explain where the man went.
We deserve to die, yet Christ died for us so that we could live, and this is only possible by His love, mercy and grace; yet with salvation we now become His contractual property, which is subject to His authority. Yet watchmen of every kind through history have guarded every transliterated syllable to propose unlimited applications, some to truth and many others to division.
Shall original language study, hermenuetics and transliteration methods all cause us to study with diligence, yet some truths are quite simple and have been moved to endless splintering for the worse. Shall the motives often be for truth, but also often in history it was for the purpose of power, control and judgement.
