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According to the Law of Moses, the woman should be stoned to death.
Jesus is silent, then kneels and writes something in the earth.
He says, "He who is without sin, cast the first stone."
The story is fictitious, and is less about the woman than it is about Jew hatred on the part of the author of John (unknown), who is, in this story, trying to show how the Jews were all about the evil "law" and Jesus was about "mercy and love."
Nevertheless, it's a great story to bring up when hypocrites raise their ugly, pointy, little heads.
Like in Mandarin, Florida, at Grace Community Church. Rebecca Hancock no longer attends Grace, largely because of the lack of grace she found there. She's divorced, and appears to have been living out-of-wedlock with a new boyfriend.
Ms. Hancock claims that when her christianist "friends" at Grace Community Church learned of her wicked ways they harassed her to the extent that she decided to worship elsewhere.
That should have been the end of the story. But, nooooo....
Hancock received a letter from Grace Church stating that because she had lived in sin and had refused to give up her boyfriend, "you leave us with no other choice but to carry out the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ ... In accordance with Matthew 18:17 we intend to 'tell it to the church.'"
Hancock said the loving christianists at Grace Church, on Jan. 4, plan to tell her sins "to the church, publicly, with my children sitting in the church and my friends."
The pastor of Grace Community Church, Dr. T. Scott Christmas [that's a bit of irony], told Channel 4 News in Jacksonville, he had no comment.
What's really sad is that Rebecca is now attending another church. She failed to learn a very important lesson.
5 comments:
Why didn't they stone her? That's what the Bible tells them to do.
Bob Poris
Because, 'Bob', 'He who is with sin cast the first stone' reminds us that NONE of us are perfect, and that we should mind our own business.
Every man, woman, and child are responsible for their own fate. God has also said that vengeance is his, which means that there is such a thing as karma.
The best thing we can ever hope to do is live the best we can, helping others along the way.
OOoooohhhhh! So you are saying that "Hancock" should give up her hope of finding a church that will accept her and her sins too? Right? That is the "very important lesson" you are speaking of at the end of this story?
You betcha! Been there, done that! Experience is the best teacher. Learn from experience.
My used to be good friend has stopped communicating with me almost completely because I have refused to go to church with her and demand that I keep whatever beliefs I may or may not have to myself. I was told I am going to hell then.
This is a girl that sleeps around, has a child out of wedlock, participates in homosexuality, drinks every weekend - need I go on? Yet I am going to hell and not worthy of being her friend unless I go to her church.
And people wonder why I refuse to talk about religion.
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