Justice and mercy

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VW

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Dec 22, 2009
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Mulehide said:
Haha Yes...hit over the head with a two-by-four in order to be quiet/still enough to hear and heed God's still small voice.
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So true. A friend told me about a month after God woke me up so strongly, that I had been sacked by Him, with a 2x4. I realized that he was righton in his assesment.

And am I ever thankful, too.
 
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Mulehide

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As a kid when my parents would spank me, they would say something akin to "this will hurt me more than it hurts you." Frankly, I did not believe it at the time lol. But now, I can understand how true that statement would have been. How much more so with our Heavenly Father? The Bible is full of God's love and goodness. "The goodness of God calls us to repentance." (paraphrase) And yet how often God is required to use force to get our attention. How it must pain Him to do so! Would that we, myself included, would simply respond to His love and goodness without the need for his reproof.
 
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Saint

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Mulehide said:
You equate forgiveness with mercy. Yet you can have forgiveness without mercy and mercy without forgiveness. God gave us both. His mercy prompted Him to provide a way of salvation and His forgiveness completed it.
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hmm, i would be inclined to accept this, but the adulturess that was about to get stoned to death, as was the punishment back then, Jesus stood up for, and showed her mercy. Yes, sometimes we should punish people, but only if it protects others, because love always protects (1 corinthians 13) and it never keeps records of wrongs, and God is love, and we must love everyone.
 
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greatkraw

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instead of justice and mercy think of judgement and salvation

the offer of salvation always comes BEFORE judgement

BECAUSE

the judgement is what we need saving from

those who reject the salvation are those who get condemned
 
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