This quote "God's Greatest Attribute is His Mercy" is another quote that my teacher, Mr Cole loves to say. He told us an interesting story earlier in the year about a teacher that he had in college that he learned this saying from. He said that there was a rumor that if you wrote "God's greatest attribute is His mercy" at the bottom of your test, he wouldn't fail you no matter how bad you did. That is something along the lines of what he told us, but he has brought this quote and started using it in our class in certain situation. I think this quote is very interesting because when you think about it, God has to forgive and have mercy on everybody because no body is perfectly sinless except for Jesus and Mary.
At the very beginning of time, in the first book of the Bible, we already see God's Mercy and forgiveness. Because of the free will we all sometimes make mistakes and do stuff we shouldn't do. We see these mistakes from the beginning of time when Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God told them that they could eat from any other tree except for that one but they disobeyed him. After Adam and Eve, we see more mistakes made throughout the Old Testament. The world becomes so filled with evil at one point that he selects Noah to build an arch and save his family and one of every type of animal, and God sends a flood that kills everybody and takes all the evil with it, but original sin still remained. We see God's mercy when he makes the ultimate sacrifice and sends his only begotten son down to earth to die for our sins. While on earth Christ establishes the Church, the Sacrament of Salvation and the Sacraments as a way for us to receive God's grace and his salvation. God forgives all of our sins that we make everyday, we just have to pray, repent, and ask for forgiveness. For me, that is why God's greatest attribute is His mercy.
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