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Moment of Reflection
The Mercy of God in the Bible
1 - It is the very sin that punishes the stubborn sinner!
He who eats poison, punishes himself to death and do not need that God is punishing him.
The misuse of freedom, abuse of the regulatory laws of nature
a wonderful world disorder can cause harmful
but not by court decision and copyright laws.
So it was not God who created Hell
but sin, deny God,
refusing until the last moment of life divine forgiveness which deprives the sinner,
obstinate, to possess God and all the happiness, because evil can not be with the holiness of God.
The sinner, refusing his happiness, which is God, self-rule is the last salvation
and is lost forever in the state that is contrary to God of all evil without any good.
If God does not want evil, at least we can say that God permits?
To say that God does not want evil but only allows charging God is watching without intervening.
God would no longer be a Savior. God does not send the pain, nor is passive,
but is always there to accompany us in our pain
and make it a work of salvation with love always saving.
2 - But the Bible also speaks volumes of God's wrath
The wrath of God in the Bible is eschatological, that is, remember the wrath of the last sentence, the final judgment
for those who refused the pardon of God and thus chose his disapproval.
God wants to save the latter's wrath, and anger at the time of mercy
is an advance that will make us predict the future, ie, it is still saving.
Wrath of God is a jerky looking for our ultimate salvation.
It is an anger that corrects and call to conversion, to save man.
3 - The mercy of God is separate from His righteousness?
When God is just and intervenes so painful is not vindictive,
but it makes a painful operation and saving as a good surgeon operates when the patient
to rid it of evil and not to suppress and violate the rights of the guilty.
God is the One who rewards and punishes,
but one who only asks us to forsake evil and recognize the right of God to love us and save us.
Just ask love instead of a repair vindictive and forgets and rejoices in our return to Him
God just wants to lay our sins on the seabed, forget them.
Do not condemn the repentant sinner, but declares it fair and restores him to the dignity of a child of God.
See the parable of the prodigal son!
4 - How will the Day of Judgment?
The doomsday is not the day when God sets aside his mercy to vent all his wrath.
The words atonement, sacrifice, victim satisfaction, purgatory, suffering in their lives, etc.
do not agree with the Biblical Christology. There is a penal code in the Bible.
The effectiveness of redemption is not put in the tortured body on the cross,
but in the disposition of the soul and body in which Jesus lived the passion,
His love for God and man, and his total abandonment to the Father
This is where we put the efficacy of the redemption of Jesus.
It was not only the Blood of Jesus to wash and purify the world consciousness,
the blood was not poured material (although it was Jesus cause of our)
but the gift that Jesus made of himself to die for us in obedience to the Father
That is, through the cross, Jesus took upon himself, with infinite love,
the full weight of our sin and misery of our human condition.
The Cross of Jesus is proof of all the love the Father who sent His Son into the world
to save the Son, and he accepted to give his life to save us and gave himself to the Father and us.
Jesus on the cross is the image of the invisible Father,
who loved us in His Son to save all suffering from sin and perdition.
5 - Render yourselves, and repent!
After the Christian believer to look at Jesus on the Cross
His extreme love in taking upon himself the full weight of sin to save us,
no longer feels the pain as the only way of purification,
but the suffering in union with Christ, in Christ, with Christ.
This love must be Trinity, the Father who created us,
Jesus the Son who redeemed us and the Holy Spirit who is all Love, Peace, Joy.
Thus, Christ's suffering becomes a means of salvation and complete in us
what is lacking in the passion of Jesus, to be "co-redeemers" with Him
Brothers and Sisters: This is a deep licção Extreme Theology of God's mercy.
All events, even painful of our lives,
are not the result of "revenge or punishment from God, but the Infinite Love of God and Saviour!
+ Blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Our Merciful Saviour
descend upon you and remain forever. - Amen
Author of text: "Father Duci Francisco, SCJ ".