Grace and Faith, Death and Life. These really must be taken as pairs for if we only focus on one half of the pair we miss out on some very important things and we wind up in a ditch. For us each half of the pair is dependent upon the other half. Grace does US no good without faith, and what good is faith to us without grace? Since the fall there is no life without death and to obtain life there has to be a death. Sounds crazy right? Grace is manifested in Jesus dying on the cross for sin past, present and future? Correct? This means all sin was forgiven at the cross from the beginning of time till the end of time. Correct? So then why are there people in hell now and why are there people who are and will still go to hell and who will be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death, to exist for eternity? Did God’s grace not apply for them? The problem wasn’t God’s grace the problem was that they did not have or use faith to access it. To put it in an earthy conte