Spirituality
09 Mar 20
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.
09 Mar 20
@kellyjay saidSays who?
Justice demands every crime should be handled under the law righteously, and all provisions that can condemn and acquit be appropriately done too.
@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.
11 Mar 20
@kellyjay said5 thumbs down.
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.
Myself, (not FMF who rarely does) and four others. So very likely some of the other Christians in this forum who silently object to the likes of yourself and sonship bringing the name and gospel of the Lord into disrepute through your insistent adherence to the torture ideology which you have been taught.
11 Mar 20
@divegeester saidNo, not me. Unless someone is asking for thumbs down as part of a survey of some kind, I don't partake.
5 thumbs down.
Myself, (not FMF who rarely does) and four others.
12 Mar 20
@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.
12 Mar 20
@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?
@kellyjay saidThis is the type of post you usually trot out when you have made a big mistake as you have in your OP.
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. But the fruit of the Spirit is lov ...[text shortened]... ep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Dump some condemnatory scripture with which you are actually just huffily inferring a insult at your detractors and then pout a lot, as you are.