{"id":18435,"date":"2017-04-10T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18435"},"modified":"2017-03-04T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:29:59","slug":"18435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/04\/10\/18435\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Merciful, but also Just"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Always I reflect that God is merciful, but is also\u00a0just<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-781 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/eto.cancaonova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/entenda_mais_sobre_a_misericordia_de_deus_e_a_justi%C3%A7a.jpg\" alt=\"entenda_mais_sobre_a_misericordia_de_deus_e_a_justi\u00e7a\" width=\"472\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;Abraham said: &#8216; my Lord do not be angry, if I say it one more time: what if there were only ten? &#8216; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">He replied: &#8216; because of the ten, not destroy &#8216;. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Having finished speaking, the Lord withdrew, and Abraham went back to your tent &#8220;(Gn -33 18.32).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">These days, I went to mass and \u00a0was reading this and <\/span><span lang=\"en\">thinking about the mercy of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by immoral practices, the debauchery that people <strong>no longer listened to God,<\/strong> and that, because of your disobedience it should be destroyed. <\/span><span lang=\"en\"><strong>With the call of Abraham the God, This said if there were at least 10 righteous in those two cities, they would not be destroyed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Brothers, I was thinking that we Christians should be those 10 righteous people praying every day for non-destruction of the world. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Always I reflect that God is merciful, but is also very fair, and he will charge us for each incoherent attitude that we have, for every witness that we don&#8217;t do. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Sometimes, I wonder if the world is not like that, because I&#8217;m not giving my testimony. Therefore,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en\">I should fight to be that salt on Earth and that light in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I need to have the courage to contradict the world and to claim to be of God is much better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Your brother,<\/p>\n<p><em>Wellington Garden (Eto)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Co-founder of the community and administrator of FJPII Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eto.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/entenda-mais-sobre-a-misericordia-de-deus-e-a-justica\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always I reflect that God is merciful, but is also\u00a0just &#8220;Abraham said: &#8216; my Lord do not be angry, if I say it one more time: what if there were only ten? &#8216; He replied: &#8216; because of the ten,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17044],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18438,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}