Please help reconcile a couple of Bible verses

[PJM]

=SirEwenii;13019974]It is the Cross which reconciles God’s mercy and God’s justice, purgatory is mroe to do with sanctification.

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith**. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.** 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

This is saying that God is vindicated as just by Jesus’ death because He had “passed over” and forgiven so many sins (eg, why did He save Noah, Noah and His family ought to have perished as well because of their sins bu God forgave them, how is that just? It is just because Noah was just and was pardoned because Jesus paid the penalty for Noah’s sin, as He pays it for all of us). Thus the Cross is where God’s justice and His mercy are vindicated. As the Douay-Rheims has it, “Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.”

There will be a judgement on the Last Day and I expect it will be severe indeed to us, we will “suffer loss” when we see that we have done so little in response to what He has done for us. (cf 1 Cor 3) But if you are indeed an adopted Son of God, if you have peace with God at your death while you might feel all the shame of the prodigal son you will be embraced by your Father on your return.

Very nicely done, thank you and continued Blessings,

Patrick