Can a judge show mercy to the guilty calling them innocent with some and then condemn others for the same thing, and be a just judge? If mercy trumps the law, doesn't that make all of the laws meaningless? Justice demands every crime should be handled under the law righteously, and all provisions that can condemn and acquit be appropriately done too.
God's mercy and justice for us are at the cross at the same time, and like the days of Moses for the staff and the snakes, one must receive mercy by accepting the grace offered.
@kellyjay saidThe notion that "grace" is being "offered" by your God figure and the story whereby he basically had himself executed by the Romans for sedition ~ and this was the ONLY means of dispensing "justice" and "mercy" ~ are both not credible to me, and to most human beings, for that matter. Argumentum ad populum, you say?
Can a judge show mercy to the guilty calling them innocent with some and then condemn others for the same thing, and be a just judge? If mercy trumps the law, doesn't that make all of the laws meaningless? Justice demands every crime should be handled under the law righteously, and all provisions that can condemn and acquit be appropriately done too.
God's mercy and justi ...[text shortened]... e days of Moses for the staff and the snakes, one must receive mercy by accepting the grace offered.
Not really. If there were a creator being who really wanted to communicate with humans, a more believable and coherent "revelation" would surely have been used and the propagation of the "news" would surely have been something more coherent and credible than the rote-learned dogma that people of your calibre peddle but never seem able or willing to explain.
And then, there you are, trying to issue your grim threats about "Hell" and torture in order to ram home, psychologically speaking, your personal opinions about the universe. It's laughable.
@kellyjay saidGalatians 5
Can a judge show mercy to the guilty calling them innocent with some and then condemn others for the same thing, and be a just judge? If mercy trumps the law, doesn't that make all of the laws meaningless? Justice demands every crime should be handled under the law righteously, and all provisions that can condemn and acquit be appropriately done too.
God's mercy and justi ...[text shortened]... e days of Moses for the staff and the snakes, one must receive mercy by accepting the grace offered.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
@kellyjay saidAccording to your beliefs, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and all the other non-Christians "will not inherit the kingdom of God" either, right?
Galatians 5
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
And even if Jews, Muslims, Hindus and any the other non-Christians DO live lives of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control and DO NOT indulge in sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies etc. etc., they "will not inherit the kingdom of God", right?