GRACE: charitos (χάριτος)
Charis (Χάρις) appears more than 150 times in the Bible, mostly in the letters written by Paul. The first usage of the concept, however, is not for first-century Christians, but for pre-Abrahamic Noah (Genesis 6:8) when the Lord decided to destroy the evil that ruled the hearts of all the people in the world. It had been more th…
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