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-Removed-I think all believers love Psalm 136.
I certainly do.
How many times does the bible talk about eternal suffering compared to how many times about eternal mercy in this ONE psalm?
That may be so. But that is not a point that He didn't warn of eternal punishment.
If you argue that God's mercy should be proportionally proclaimed MORE, that may be a good point at times. But because of THAT that does not make His warnings of eternal punishment vanish from His oracles.
Furthermore, it is His enduring mercy in a new heaven and new earth in which only righteousness dwells that the rebels of God be confined away somewhere too preoccupied with their abject failure of their revolt to do any further mischief in the universe.
Its not a mercy to them who are suffering. But they completely spurned God's mercy anyway. They didn't WANT it.
Its God's mercy to the eternally saved that Satan and his dupes are forever preoccupied to never again sully Paradise with thier failed revolt against the Truth.
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Let's who wants God's mercy among the vocal critics to the Gospel here.
ThinkOfOne - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
Karoly aczel - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
JS357 - Do you want God's eternal mercy ?
BigDoggProblem - How about you? Do you want the eternal mercy of God? Think on it.
sonhouse - Do you want God's mercy which is everlasting ?
Ghost of a Duke - Do you want God and God's eternal mercy ?
Wolfgang59 - Do you want God's mercy ?
Just a few.
Yes Divegeester, God's mercy is everlasting. Some may choose to opt out of receiving any divine mercy.
Oh they receive His mercy DAILY. But they don't thank Him for it and don't want Him to bother them. In many cases they hope God doesn't exist.
-Removed-Maybe if you spent more time praying with the Word of God then on comedy entertainment and humorous lampoons you'd be better equipped in your understanding of the Bible.
God has mercy on many people every day. And some don't stop after one year and contemplate to give God one word of thanks for the previous year's mercy.
I asked some here. And they can answer. Don't need to consult your billions.
Let's who wants God's mercy among the vocal critics to the Gospel here.
ThinkOfOne - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
Karoly aczel - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
JS357 - Do you want God's eternal mercy ?
BigDoggProblem - How about you? Do you want the eternal mercy of God? Think on it.
sonhouse - Do you want God's mercy which is everlasting ?
Ghost of a Duke - Do you want God and God's eternal mercy ?
Wolfgang59 - Do you want God's mercy ?
Just a few.
Ask any one of these people if after 365 days they paused for just a moment, looked back over the year and thought to say -
God, I just want to stop for a moment and say Thankyou for the mercy you showed towards me this last year.
If I spoke of the blessings of mercy God has had on them, they might turn it all around as an accusation against God that somebody ELSE went without that blessing, to prove God's unfairness.
He has mercy. But to the forever unreconciled how do know that mercy will be everlasting.
I think to some people here whom God knows will not receive Christ, He has mercy by not letting them know any more which would make them more accountable.
It could be that the darkness in theirs is also God's mercy to limit their culpability as they spend eternity separated from God.
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Originally posted by @sonshipI am called one of the “vocal critics to the Gospel.”
Let's who wants God's mercy among the vocal critics to the Gospel here.
ThinkOfOne - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
Karoly aczel - Do you want God's mercy forever ?
JS357 - Do you want God's eternal mercy ?
BigDoggProblem - How about you? Do you want the eternal mercy of God? Think on it.
sonhouse - Do you want God's mercy which ...[text shortened]... t thank Him for it and don't want Him to bother them. In many cases they hope God doesn't exist.
Then: “JS357 - Do you want God's eternal mercy ?”
If God’s mercy extends to those who judge me so kindly, as you do, I hope it extends further, to me, a somewhat OCD reader of texts, focusing IMO more on critiquing the writings of RHP posters, than on the gospels they supposedly support.
You are not one who considers a critique of your words to be a critique of God’s word, are you?