grace: Nonlinear Function
Created: September 11, 2021
Modified: September 11, 2021

grace

This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.

One can never fully deserve grace, but may receive (and extend) it regardless.

Probably the most beautiful conceptual contribution of Christian thought.

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