On our way in the van out to Mother's Day events in Three Hills, My son spoke up with his shower epiphany.
'Mercy is really meaningless and wasted, if the person being given mercy is not aware of what they have done wrong.'
Wow.
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Geez, Scott: welcome to a place that about 1% of adults EVER get to!
On the other hand, if God waited to show mercy to only those who were aware of their need, we would all have been wiped out long before we had any inkling of the significance of mercy. Perhaps grace is the patience to show mercy to those who don't appreciate the gift being given to them.
I do not believe that my father properly understands my "shower epiphany". Humorously my little preteen sister Emily, who is not particularly interested in logic and philosophy, came to the same conclusion through use of logic after hearing half of it. It uses two basic assumptions:
Assumption one, set of rules A must always apply as a rule both in practice and in theory from the perspective of group of people B.
Assumption two, mercy is the complete freeing of any responsibility to the violation of a rule, or rules and is always applied to group of people B when possible.
If group B takes advantage of mercy regarding rule set A so that rule set A has no impact on the agenda of group B, rule set A is in practice not a rule set, thus violating assumption 1. Therefore mercy can't be applied to group B if it fails to modify its agenda to suit rule set A.
Actually, I do think I got it...
I'm not sure how we are saying different things. I think in a contractual view of things mercy is pointless if people fail to see the rules. Mike's point is well taken, in that from God's perspective, humans will not ever meet all the rules.
But I think your point is about those who fail to see and meet the rules, therefore rendering Mercy moot.
Which is odd, because you commit yourself to the rules, in practice. Even more so because you see more rules than the average Joe! Or is this just in theory and we need to keep theory and practice separate?
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