What would a Muslim do?

[whirlingmerc]

Gid 'has shown you oh man what to do but s to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God." in Micah

In a sense both justice and love mercy

One would thing loving mercy is a higher bar than doing mercy

BOTH?????? THAT is a CONTRADICTION. Either the just and proper punishment for adultery is DEATH or it's appropriate to ignore what is just and proper and instead extend MERCY. How exactly does that work? Are you merciful for maybe a week and THEN you kill the offender? Can't really see how it's possible to kill them FIRST and THEN extend mercy. Wow... how confusing. It's almost as if people get to decide for themselves... in which case what God has to say about it is pretty much meaningless.[/QUOTE]


God was both merciful and just on the cross

 

[QuestioningMind]

BOTH?????? THAT is a CONTRADICTION. Either the just and proper punishment for adultery is DEATH or it's appropriate to ignore what is just and proper and instead extend MERCY. How exactly does that work? Are you merciful for maybe a week and THEN you kill the offender? Can't really see how it's possible to kill them FIRST and THEN extend mercy. Wow... how confusing. It's almost as if people get to decide for themselves... in which case what God has to say about it is pretty much meaningless.

God was both merciful and just on the cross[/QUOTE]

Sorry, but that's simply not possible. Mercy, by it's definition, is choosing to ignore what justice prescribes. If justice prescribes that a person who commits adultery should be put to death and a judge decides to be merciful and NOT kill the offender, then they have chosen to NOT pursue justice and INSTEAD extend mercy. If on the other hand the judge chooses to pursue justice and has the offender killed then the judge was NOT extending mercy to the offender. Thus it is IMPOSSIBLE to be BOTH just and merciful at the same time.