God is fully just and merciful | Rapp Report 2-minute Daily 0027 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rap Report with Andrew Rapaport, where we provide biblical interpretations and applications.
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- 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 his laws.
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- 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