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4 sty 2022 · 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.
9 gru 2022 · God’s mercy and justice are not in competition: Aquinas explains how. Nicholas Senz - published on 12/09/22. St. Thomas notes that in every act of God, both mercy and justice are at work....
The Bible reveals the God of justice, who demands justice from his creatures. It also gives full voice to human cries against injustice and proclaims that God determines to restore justice to the whole earth.
15 sie 2022 · Mercy and justice are not at odds here, but beautifully joined together. Because he is just, God will be merciful to you, in his perfect timing. His grace to you, in Christ, is justice. The purest enforcement of justice ever conceived or executed delights to show mercy.
4 kwi 2023 · The cross is the intersection of God’s justice and mercy; God’s justice was meted out in full (upon Christ), and God’s mercy was extended in full (to all who believe). He is truly “a just God and a Savior” (Isaiah 45:21, NKJV).
Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
What has happened here is that St. Augustine has treated God's justice and God's mercy as alternatives, as two distinct "sides" of God's nature, so to speak. Some sinners encounter His mercy side, and some sinners encounter only his justice side.
