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From: "Mark K LaCour" <lacour1@...>
>If a philanthropist pays $80,000 for your college education
> on the condition that you graduate from high school, you have not earned
> the gift, but you have met a condition.  It is possible to meet a
> condition for receiving grace and yet not earn the grace.

False.  You've earned the gift by meeting the condition.  We can say the 
philanthorpist is generous.  But he is not gracious because he placed a 
condition on the gift.

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH