Serious question for Christains only.....?

Question

God is just.

On the other hand He's also full of mercy, grace, forgivness, and love. He heals and restores and provides and blesses right?

So the question is which will He lean more toward....the justice or the other stuff?

Answer 1

Psalm 103. 10-14

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Answer 2

God is just and all sin needs to be dealt with from the smallest to the greatest. All sin requires payment and no one is left out or given any regard. Justice must be meted out. And the wages of sin is death, and nothing less. This is a fact that cannot be changed.

However, God in His love and mercy provided a loophole. You could pass your sins on to an innocent animal and that victim can take the punishment for you as a substitutionary sacrifice. This had to be performed once a year under the Levitical law.

The most glorious day in the entire history of the world is when God came down in the form of man and acted as THE Lamb for the sins of the world, past, present and future. The Father's need for justice had been satisfied. In Christ we are justified--not by our puny, pathetic works of righteousness, but by HIS finished work on the cross. THAT is the Gospel!

Colossians 2:13-14
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Hallelujah. Now, with His justice satisfied, we are adopted into His family and inheritance as adopted children wherein we can now become recipients of His mercy, grace, forgiveness, and love until He returns to take us home.

Answer 3

His primary character quality is Holiness. All other qualities fall under that one. Holiness demands justice and mercy and love and truth. That is why the plan of salvation is designed as it is, so that God can meet total justice and yet demonsstrate mercy based on His truth.
Here is God's order: James 3:17 "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy."

Answer 4

From my understanding only:
God is just means impartial.
No respector of persons,
meaning we are all equal in God's 'sight',
no class distinction, racial, cultural, gender, age or religious distinction - all are favorites
(yep, even the 'baddies' - doesn't mean there aren't 'consequences' for actions - but it does mean that all are 'precious in his sight', even the so-called prodigals)

And here, to me, 'just' is different from man's concept of 'justice'

Again, to me: Since God is not a person God does not 'lean'

Godmercy
Godgrace
Godpeace
Godlove
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Omniscient
(Allpower, Everywherepresence, Allknowing)

Add all that up
It comes out to
Everyone gets to experience God expressing them (made in the image and likeness) (dust in OT translates to root meaning 'essence') soooooo then what do YOU lean more toward mercy grace forgiveness and love or ........? The choice is yours.

Judge ye with righteous judgment...as ye judge so are ye judged......

Blessings and a star for a great Q
Thanks :)

Answer 5

if you are in Christ, born of the Spirit and redeemed by the shed blood of the Lamb of God, justice has already been executed in Christ, who bore the total guilt of sin and its consequences on the cross. That is why it says:

"God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. "
Romans 3:25-26

Jesus suffered infinite agony on the cross, so the wrath and punishment your sins deserve would not fall upon you.
As for those who disdain God's offer of reconciliation, they shall pay the price for every sinful word, thought and deed they have ever committed. Perfect justice.
So choose mercy. Choose Christ.

Answer 6

Rite now he is full of mercy grace forgiveness love truth patience and just. On the day of judgment he is just.

Answer 7

The very word "Just" implies he has no "leaning" the facts are weighed then metes out what is required.

Don't forget in all this He gave us free will, so we are quite capable of ignoring or disobeying whatever He decides anyway - that is the "Glory" of God.

Answer 8

Mercy, just as He asks us to do.

"He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
but to do justly, to love mercy
and to walk humbly before your God." Micah 6:8

Answer 9

AH That is what God is all about! It is the heart that God sees, the intent, the will. God's judgment is at a much higher level than ours and His justice is perfect!

Answer 10

He will lean toward mercy, grace, and love