would you consider grace if you found a 20 on the side of the street and if you didn't find that 20 you couldn't afford to buy baby's food for your baby or would you say that's luck? How would you define the difference between grace and luck?
2006-09-25 16:41:58 · 8 answers · asked by curious 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
very argumentative, the question is....
By definition:
Luck - stands in opposition to control, but not to causation. Luck is that which happens beyond a person's control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck)
Grace - unearned favors or mercy received (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace#Religion)
by looking at your example, in another person's point of view it was luck. but if we take the person who actually stumbled upon the pot, it was grace (especially if it was badly needed).
and judging by definition, it also may mean either of the two. but.... the argument would still not be settled. so:
when we talk of grace, it may either be religious in nature, society, environmental (nature). we breathe the air because of it's presence, that's not luck but nature's graces to us, right? same thing with the seas or fertile lands... those are nature's graces to us humans... grace is given without cause of deliverance, without question. luck on the other hand depends on how you weigh the balance of reason or fortune of fates (50/50).
and that is how i see what grace and luck is...
2006-09-25 18:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by VeRDuGo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can finding 20 dollars on the street be grace? Somebody lost that money, would that be grace for that poor guy? Finding that money is just luck (which is, by the some Universal law that I will think about later, somebody's bad luck).
Grace would be when that mother is offered a good job, finds a good man, gets married and lives happily ever after.
2006-09-26 00:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by mrquestion 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, if I found a 20 I'd consider that luck. My needs would have nothing to do with it. The 20 would be there no matter how much money I already had. I would define luck as any unforeseeable event (like rolling snake-eyes or a 7), and would define grace as the word for luck used by the religious and superstitious.
2006-09-25 23:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would consider that luck. By luck, I would define it as some event happening that could happen to anyone. Then by grace, I would define it as some event happening specifically to you. Meaning that anyone could have found the $20 on the floor given enough time, you just happened to be lucky and found it first.
2006-09-26 01:48:34 · answer #4 · answered by bloop87 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Luck' also often goes by the name 'coincidence'. These are the assigned names given to God's working in our lives by those who are either ignorant of Him or afraid to acknowledge Him. 'Grace', as defined in scripture is "unmerited favor", therefore one could characterize finding money in a time of need as a blessing, and it could be considered an act of grace for God to have allowed one to find it. In the Christian lexicon, there is no 'coincidence'. There would therefore also be no 'luck', as said luck could only occur with the help of a coincidental action. As one writer put it, "...what you choose to think of as coincidence, I know to be God."
2006-09-26 00:34:02 · answer #5 · answered by therealme 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
grace would be from God, a god or person... and luck has no reasoning.
2006-09-26 02:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-25 23:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a staight-up blessing.
2006-09-25 23:50:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋