Rewind: God is Fully Just and Merciful

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Rap Report with Andrew Rapaport, where we provide biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of Striving for Eternity. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar for your church, go to www .strivingforeternity

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.org. Another way that we see that Christianity is unique among all the other religions is the fact that only within Christianity can you have a

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God that is fully just and fully merciful. You see, mercy and justice are mutually exclusive.

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You cannot be just and punish a sin, at the same time show mercy to it.

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And as we look at all the other religions, we see even Islam that would say that Allah is most merciful, but at the sake of His justice.

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God's justice can be seen in the fact that He meets out punishment to those who break

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His laws. He must punish lawbreakers for all sin. There are no exceptions. This creates a dilemma for other religions that want to allow criminals to earn their way to heaven.

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In order for God to be just, He must punish. But if He punished everyone that broke His law, no one would receive mercy.

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In God's justice, He does punish the consequence to its fullest extent. The consequence of sin was paid in full in the punishment of Jesus Christ.

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And in that, we can see mercy. Most religions might say that God is merciful. However, most of them have a view of mercy that makes

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God unjust and overlooking lawbreaking. God cannot be merciful at the sake of His justice, as seen in other religions except for Christianity.

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Christianity is unique in that God's justice and God's mercy are married at the cross.

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God can bestow mercy upon men because He laid the punishment fully upon Himself because someone else paid our fine, and that is

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