You never mention another part of God's character which is plain in both Old and New Testament. That is His justice.
The mercy is shown to those who will escape from His judgment. We are all under His judgment unless we accept the solution for escape.
“You never mention another part of God’s character which is plain in both Old and New Testament. That is His justice.”
No, I never mentioned justice. But again, I can’t square the accepted meanings of the words “love,” “mercy,” or “justice” with the Biblical teaching regarding God. I think of justice as the punishment fitting the crime. If a child is spanked for some infraction, most consider that spanking deserved and necessary. If the parents spanks the child for an hour, non-stop, that would be considered criminal. If the parent spanked the child forever and ever without end, is there any way that could be considered just?
And yet many believe that it is just for God to afflict billions of people with eternal fire, many of whom never heard of Jesus or the God of the Bible. Think, for example of the 40 million people slaughtered by Genghis Khan. Mostly Asian peasants. Never exposed to the Gospel. Never heard of Jesus. Slaughtered like animals by the millions. But according to your theology, if I’m not mistaken, when Genghis Khan got finished with them, God began inflicting them and will continue to do so forever. Justice? At least GK put them out of their misery.