Greasy grace, some call it that because they miss the point. They presume that if you teach that your sins are wholly forgiven, front to back and back to front, that you say that because you love sin and don't want to have to follow any guidelines.
When the Lord looked throughout history and could find no man suitable to work salvation, redemption, righteousness for him, the prayer refers to it as "He restores my soul," the Lord said his own arm would work righteousness for him. Isaiah 53 shows Christ as the humble savior but it also references his next return to earth as the victorious savior who conquers. What Israel has never understood is that the Lord had to work salvation in the spiritual realm first. For that, he had to be a man and he had to take on our death so we could take on one day his gift of eternal life.
Son of man is as much a pedigree for the Lord in heaven as son of God was here on Earth. There is a scroll in heaven that only a man could open, not just any man, but a righteous man. A man righteous enough to bring about justice on the Earth, for the dominion over Earth had been assigned to mankind, therefore a man had to open the scroll. The Lord also had to acquire the keys to death and hell to release the prisoners who belonged to him. Death had no right to Christ, he was a sinless man and the scripture says the wages of sin is death. In first or second Peter you find that when Christ died, he preached in the grave, even to the people of Noah's day who disregarded the Lord and lived according to their own instincts. When my mom doubted that was in the Bible and I read it to her, she said, "Surely you aren't saying that people can be saved after they die?!" I told her I hadn't said anything, I had only read the scripture to her and it was up to her to determine it's interpretation. We'd had a sticky situation when I was all of fourteen and she was supposed to have special knowledge. I had asked her why it was fair that the people of Noah's day die and go to hell when Noah was the only one on Earth at the time who had knowledge of the Lord and he was busy building an ark. She couldn't even produce the knowledge found in scripture regarding that, much less have any special knowledge. I was gratified that the Lord had provided the answer for me in scripture.
Salvation is not a head knowledge of who Jesus was, the Bible says even the fallen angels know who Jesus was and they trembled. We know what Legion said when the Lord came calling. Salvation is a heart conversion. We see this with Peter when the Lord counciled him at the last supper. Of course it matters which version of the Bible you read if you want to understand what the Lord was saying when he told Peter that the devil had asked for him to sift him as wheat. In the NKJV it says that the Lord told him he would betray the Lord and "when you have returned to me........" The KJV says, "when you are converted." I dare say that Peter, at that time, knew who the Lord was, but Peter had not yet examined himself and found himself to be a sinner in need of the salvation that he was watching unfold with his very eyes. A heart conversion is very different than a head knowledge. Head knowledge won't make you feel convicted, but a careful examination of your own heart in correlation to understanding that a righteous man died in your stead, you who are guilty of sin in your heart, you, me, everyone who is born of woman, we all put Jesus on that cross. Had just ONE of us been righteous enough to open that scroll in heaven, the sacrifice of the Lord on the cross would never have been required. God himself sent his spirit in a tabernacle to work that miracle and that tabernacle was Christ. Do you believe you have a deposit of the Holy Spirit in you? Then don't scoff at the idea that Christ had the lion's share of it. To us, he was God in the flesh as is evidenced by the fact that he accepted worship and that he led a sinless life and was resurrected after he was killed.
Someday a supplanter will come who will indwell a deceased man and tell the world it was a resurrection so that they think this man is a god. Satan wanted to do that with Moses which is why an angel had to fight with him over the dead body of Moses, but it was not yet time for him to have his day to rule. This will happen three and a half years into the "great tribulation" after people have learned to trust a ruler and follow them. Jesus' ministry last three and a half years, therefore the supplanter will only have three and a half years for his ministry, although one could argue that he's been pretty active ever since adam and eve sought knowledge in Eden. Sometimes I wonder if you add the two ministries together, do you get the lost seven years appointed to Israel, perhaps only to give them a choice who they want to follow. If that theory pans out, the seven years preachers keep harping about may not add up.
When you think you can earn your salvation through behavior modification you're just fooling yourself because God sees your heart, you can't lie to him. No, you're still sure that on some level you are guiltless and you might as well pray, "Thanks Jesus, but I got this." The book of Isaiah has already let you know that you don't got this. The fact that the Lord was born and died on your behalf is a testament to the fact that you absolutely don't "got this." I just wish I had a good catch phrase for self righteousness.
Good day.
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