Re: Mockers are the least open and most difficult people to help.
Sure! on all except this:
"Calvinists seem to want to say that even grace itself has attributes. How can an attribute have attributes? Grace is not the 4th part of the Trinity."
Are you saying it's wrong to say God's grace is powerful?
If so, why?
Looking at 1 Cor. 15:10 again:
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
What if we substituted the word power here for Grace:
But by the power of God I am what I am, and his power toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the power of God that is with me.
Would that change the meaning Paul was trying to get across that much?
I believe Paul was trying to get across that it was not in his strength, not by his own flesh, that he was what he was or that he was able to work harder than them all. I believe he was also trying to get across that it wasn't by living by the law that he was able to be what he was and work harder than them all because that is what he was doing before he was saved, and he calls all that work before he was saved, dung! So instead he wants everyone to know it was by God's grace, not by the law, that he was able to be a changed man and bear fruit to God.
In scriptures such as these, grace and power go together:
Acts 4:33 And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.