H Dorrington <hjdinfl@...> wrote:>The premise is that Christ the Righteous needed to acquire and merit grace There isn't a *premise* in the Covenant of Works that grace was to be merited. No one I know believes that Christ merited grace (nor would they say it) and that is certainly the wrong way to read Calvin (as I explained). This is a misrepresentation of the view, IMHO. Chad Richard Bresson Xenia, OH http://breusswane.blogspot.com/ -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace