Tigger56 Posted May 5, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 679 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 1,327 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/04/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted May 5, 2020 Mercy is not tolerance, mercy is forgiveness with the hope of change. Mercy is not acceptance of sin nor permission to sin or live as one chooses. There are great laws of love given by the Lord to obey and follow, it is the guidance upon the straight and narrow path. However, when one fails there is abundance of mercy found to pick us up and guide us ever upon the way of light. When we show mercy unto another it is not acceptance of wrong behavior but is forgiveness with the hope of lasting change. Mercy can supersede law but does not abolish law. It can supersede a wrong but doesn't not accept or tolerant a wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leah777 Posted May 5, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,393 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 1,156 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/09/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted May 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Tigger56 said: mercy is forgiveness with the hope of change. mercy is forgiveness. Undeserved forgiveness. Full stop. Quote Titus 3 v 1-5: Graces of the Heirs of Grace 1Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, 2to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. 3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortangel Posted May 5, 2020 Group: Senior Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 839 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 634 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/12/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted May 5, 2020 good perspectives here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyKay Posted May 5, 2020 Group: Royal Member Followers: 12 Topic Count: 385 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 7,692 Content Per Day: 1.93 Reputation: 4,809 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/28/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 5, 2020 Mercy definition: Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlade Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2,224 Content Per Day: 1.36 Reputation: 1,127 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/06/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1961 Share Posted May 6, 2020 You know.. thinking about this not as the prefect way to say it or quote what our Father says but just what I know when I think about it. When I show mercy..I am not looking at what was done. .. just push the darkness to side and .. there... theres the light... keep your eyes on Him.. Your IN good hands. I show what is always shown to me..to which I cry and to show that word LadyKay said.. COMPASSION.. Christ always shows me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jostler Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 25 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,679 Content Per Day: 1.39 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 16 Joined: 01/19/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) sounds good....but flowery rhetoric doesn't change the Biblical meaning of mercy. Adding to the Word is just as destructive as taking away from it. Intellect does not supersede revelation. Edited May 6, 2020 by Jostler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigger56 Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 679 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 1,327 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/04/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 23 hours ago, leah777 said: mercy is forgiveness. Undeserved forgiveness. Full stop. I agree that mercy is undeserved forgiveness. But if you wrong someone and you ask forgiveness even though you don't deserve it and they forgive you do you think they expect change and that you won't do it again? Don't you expect that of yourself? Is it any less to expect it in our relationship with God? Edited May 6, 2020 by Tigger56 misspelled word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigger56 Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 679 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 1,327 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/04/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, DustyRoad said: This topic isn't an uplifting and encouraging discussion. The OP is expressing his opinion as conveyed in the title, "Mercy is not..." Don't agree but see it got moved. I always consider mercy as being one of the most uplifting and encouraging things in this world! But Dusty if I said the sky was blue or the grass was green or if I said the sky was green and the grass was blue you would disagree with me no matter how I said it. But I am going to say one thing to see if I can get my one and only agreement from you..... here it is, "God is good". Edited May 6, 2020 by Tigger56 Added more words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behold Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 7 Topic Count: 87 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3,795 Content Per Day: 1.34 Reputation: 6 Days Won: 3 Joined: 07/30/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 6:24 AM, Tigger56 said: Mercy is not tolerance, mercy is forgiveness with the hope of change. Mercy is not acceptance of sin nor permission to sin or live as one chooses. There are great laws of love given by the Lord to obey and follow, it is the guidance upon the straight and narrow path. However, when one fails there is abundance of mercy found to pick us up and guide us ever upon the way of light. When we show mercy unto another it is not acceptance of wrong behavior but is forgiveness with the hope of lasting change. Mercy can supersede law but does not abolish law. It can supersede a wrong but doesn't not accept or tolerant a wrong. "Where sin abounds, Grace more abounds" is not suggesting that because we are "made Righteous", we are to live in the opposite direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted May 6, 2020 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,262 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,874 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2020 22 hours ago, DustyRoad said: This topic isn't an uplifting and encouraging discussion. The OP is expressing his opinion as conveyed in the title, "Mercy is not..." Worthy Christian Forums> Christian Discussions> General Discussion> Mercy is not ... (ironic, huh:) be merciful to me a poster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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