Should God have compassion?

[johnp.]

The court jester man cool! The fool of Christ I'll be bound boyo Bob! A fools a fool regardless which side of the line he jests on.

Are you still stuck quoting Romans 9 while reading Jonah 4:11 "still"??

To live in harmony with man is one thing, another is to live in harmony with scripture and Father God man, I choose the latter but I could wish for the former, I don't but I could.

How about the DETAILS of Jonah 4:11 johnP -- care to comment? Yet?

Bully boy Bob does not get answers from the jester as you know fool well Bobby boy. The answers would be foolish to you anyway as you say. Anyway I will be 'a'quoting Romans nine till my dying day if that pleases the Lord.

...and this will extend to “the reasons” God has for showing mercy...

I'm a peon yet I understand mercy to be mercy man, why don't you, give it a rest might sound like a question? Your learning is showing Bob old boy.

Anyway God should have mercy on those He will have mercy on and He will show His compassion to those He has chosen, the rest will go to Hell innocent or guilty as it pleases Him.

john.

 

[BobRyan]

But God said --

Jonah 4

9Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."
10Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

11"Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

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[johnp.]

"Should I not have compassion on Nineveh... Exactly. It is God that initiates forgiveness and any Godward movement from to those living in darkness, those chosen.

john.

 

[BobRyan]

Originally posted by BobRyan:
But God said --

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Jonah 4

9Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."
10Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

11"Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

</font>[/QUOTE]Here we see God having a talk with Jonah - God points to Jonah's rejection of God's kind intent and God argues IN FAVOR of "Showing compassion" for the REASONS HE GIVES IN THE TEXT!

Notice that NONE of those reasons HE GIVES IN THE TEXT are (I should because I can do any arbitrary little think I choose for I am very partial after all and no one can question it).

But I know there are some who "wish" they had read it that way.

In Christ,

Bob