MERCY, C. H. Cayce If the death of Christ was based upon a principle of mercy, then He had a right to die for a part of the race without dying for others. If He did not have this sovereign right, then His death was not mercy, but an obligation which He was under to sinners.
If He was under obligation to them to die for them, and if they are saved through what He accomplished in His death, then their salvation is not a matter of mercy, but a matter of obligation—something the Lord was under obligation to them to do for them. If the salvation of the sinner is not of God’s mercy, then the Bible is a farce, and the whole thing is a delusion, a snare and a myth. Sinners are saved by mercy—grace—through what Christ accomplished in His death. Therefore, His death was an act of mercy. As it was an act of mercy, He had a sovereign right to die for a part of the race, without dying for others. (Cayce’s Editorials vol. 1, ppg 319, 320)