Divine mercy or God's mercy is an attribute of God in Christianity, in Judaism,
In the Greek language of the New Testament and of the Septuagint, the word most commonly used to designate mercy, including divine mercy, is eleos.
The Arabic word used in Islam to refer to divine mercy is raḥma.
In Christianity, it is believed that it is through his action that God reveals his mercy. Divine mercy is appealed to in Christian .
In the Catholic Church, God's mercy is seen as the "universal root" of all of God's acts: divine mercy is the cause of all actions God accomplishes outside of himself. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "the Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God's mercy to sinners", and that "there are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, Eternal sin".
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