Two words, mercy amd justice, have been on my mind lately so, since it's a slow Sunday, here's a bit about how God's mercy and justice work together.

https://www.gotquestions.org/mercy-justice.html

Question: "How do God’s mercy and justice work together in salvation?"

Answer: God’s justice and mercy are seemingly incompatible. After all, justice involves the dispensing of deserved punishment for wrongdoing, and mercy is all about pardon and compassion for an offender. However, these two attributes of God do in fact form a unity within His character.

The Bible contains many references to God’s mercy. Over 290 verses in the Old Testament and 70 in the New Testament contain direct statements of the mercy of God toward His people.

God was merciful to the Ninevites who repented at the preaching of Jonah, who described God as “a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity” (Jonah 4:2). David said God is “gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in loving-kindness. The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works” (Psalm 145:8–9, NASB).

But the Bible also speaks of God’s justice and His wrath over sin. In fact, God’s perfect justice is a defining characteristic: “There is no God apart from me, a righteous [just] God and a Savior; there is none but me” (Isaiah 45:21). “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he” (Deuteronomy 32:4).

In the New Testament, Paul details why God’s judgment is coming: “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming” (Colossians 3:5–6).

So the Bible showcases the fact that God is merciful, but it also reveals that He is just and will one day dispense justice on the sin of the world.

In every other religion in the world that holds to the idea of a supreme deity, that deity’s mercy is always exercised at the expense of justice. For example, in Islam, Allah may grant mercy to an individual, but it’s done by dismissing the penalties of whatever law has been broken. In other words, the offender’s punishment that was properly due him is brushed aside so that mercy can be extended. Islam’s Allah and every other deity in the non-Christian religions set aside the requirements of moral law in order to be merciful. Mercy is seen as at odds with justice. In a sense, in those religions, crime can indeed pay.

If any human judge acted in such a fashion, most people would lodge a major complaint. It is a judge’s responsibility to see that the law is followed and that justice is provided. A judge who ignores the law is betraying his office.

Christianity is unique in that God’s mercy is shown through His justice. There is no setting aside of justice to make room for mercy. The Christian doctrine of penal substitution states that sin and injustice were punished at the cross of Christ and it’s only because the penalty of sin was satisfied through Christ’s sacrifice that God extends His mercy to undeserving sinners who look to Him for salvation.

As Christ died for sinners, He also demonstrated God’s righteousness; His death on the cross showcased God’s justice. This is exactly what the apostle Paul says: “All are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Romans 3:24–26, emphasis added).

en perfectly just in doing so. Adam and Eve were not immediately destroyed when they ate the forbidden fruit. Instead, God planned a Redeemer (Genesis 3:15). In His love God sent His own Son (John 3:16). Christ paid for every single sin ever committed; thus, God was just in punishing sin, and He can also justify sinners who receive Christ by faith (Romans 3:26). God’s justice and His mercy were demonstrated by Christ’s death on the cross. At the cross, God’s justice was meted out in full (upon Christ), and God’s mercy was extended in full (to all who believe). So God’s perfect mercy was exercised through His perfect justice.

The end result is that everyone who trusts in the Lord Jesus is saved from God’s wrath and instead experiences His grace and mercy

>>2843985

>Why hasn't Qanon called out or exposed a single hoax false flag ?

Because, until now, white hats have been setting the stage/laying the trap for black hats to walk into the nooses being set for them. If Q had exposed the traps being laid, they wouldn't have worked, would they?

You need to read those two theories that were in Notables a couple of breads ago - about Presidential Pardons and Military Tribunals. They explain a lot. Sure, it's still hypothetical but it sure makes a lot of sense to me.

>>2844001

>That's a lot of words

Mebbe…

But if you can find the time to read them it may benefit you for a lot of days…like for eternity.

>>2844041

I'll second that. Praying Medic is also great if you need to catch up after missing a Q drop or a load of breads with interesting digs. I've often had to use PM for a quick catch up when real life has prevented me from keeping up with Q and breads.

>>2844069

>Well, i think his analyses /the big ones/, shold be here on GLOBAL NOTABLES.

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>Becasuse many people never heard about him.

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>His analyse are usefull for awaken ones, but also for normies.

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>Very helpfull.

I get where you're coming from but too much spoonfeeding makes for idle minds. I discovered Praying Medic without having to be directed. When our curiosity is piqued and we make the effort to research for ourselves, we begin to have skin in the game, so to speak. We have dedicated time and effort and that influences how we receive, process and remember what we've read.

>>2844082

>youre in the wrong goddamned room

Who says?

The relationship between mercy and justice is central to civilisation. Just because you're insufficiently gifted in the IQ department to understand that obvious fact, doesn't make it any less relevant to Q's objective to save civilisation and therefore to Q Research.

>>2844117

>And PrayingMedic with NeonRevolt

Lol! Neon Revolt is another of my discoveries!

There's a balance between dropping a few names and spoon-feeding. People need to be invested in what they learn if it is to have any lasting effect so maybe we need to find that balance so as to allow those who are inclined, to seek, and those who are disinclined, to carry on in their merry ways.

>>2844125

>GTFO

How to spot a Libtard: they always resort to ad homs when losing a debate.

>>2844153

>I didn't debate you dumbass. Check my id.

Another ad hom.

You demonstrably entered the debate by posting your "GTFO" rejoinder to my post, and thereby engaged with its premises. You made yourself part of the debate whether or not you started it.

Are ad homs the only contribution your intellect allows?

Try FB - I believe it may be more up your street.

God bless you in your endeavours, anon.

>>2844182

>Filtered.

Thank you, anon. It means I won't have to endure any more low IQ responses from you.

>>2844349

>you are not a slave!

Holds hand up: Wrong. I am a slave!

A dedicated, happy, fulfilled slave to the kindest, most righteous, most loving, most just, most everything Master, who loved me so much he laid down his life for me.

Who wouldn't want to be a slave to one like that?

I am a willing and joyful slave to Jesus Christ.

>>2844398

>This is sad anon.

Why?

Don't just make a bald statement - justify it.

>>2844422

>If you think being a "slave" to anything is good, you kinda missed the whole point of what the Jesus was really saying.

Or maybe it is YOU who has missed what Jesus is saying.

https://www.gotquestions.org/slave-to-sin.html

Question: "What does it mean to be a slave to sin?"

Answer: Everyone is a slave in the spiritual sense. We are either slaves to sin, which is our natural state, or we are slaves to Christ. The writers of the New Testament willingly declared their status as slaves of Christ. Paul opens his letter to the Romans by referring to himself as a “slave of Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:1) and his letter to Titus by calling himself a “slave of God” (Titus 1:1). James opens his epistle the same way, “James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ” (James 1:1). Most translations say “servant” or “bond-servant” in these passages, but the Greek word doulas means, literally, “slave.”

In John 8:34 Jesus tells the unbelieving Pharisees, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.” He uses the analogy of a slave and his master to make the point that a slave obeys his master because he belongs to him. Slaves have no will of their own. They are literally in bondage to their masters. When sin is our master, we are unable to resist it. But, by the power of Christ to overcome the power of sin, “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness” (Romans 6:18). Once we come to Christ in repentance and receive forgiveness for sin, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit who comes to live within us. It is by His power that we are able to resist sinning and become slaves of righteousness.

>>2844463

>Yeah, not gonna argue with you. HAGD in your "slavery"

Thank you - I always do. Being a slave to Christ is the most beautiful, wonderful, lovely, inexpressible privilege a person could ever have.

>>2844463

Just imagine being inextricably bound in reciprocal love to whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, anything that is excellent or praiseworthy, for eternity.

Seems like a wonderful slavery to me.