Newsweek Throws the First Stone: Story on the Bible didn't even pretend to mask an agenda.

Pajamas Media ^ | 01/19/2015 | CHRIS QUEEN

[Verginius Rufus]

Looks like Newsweek let slip the long-held secret, that the Hebrew Bible is really a translation of the Septuagint Greek original.

All those students who studied Hebrew in seminaries were wasting their time. Greek is all you need!

[Verginius Rufus]

The dude pulled out his voter registration card that showed that he was a registered Democrat, so they had to let him go.

[Bratch]

I’ve always found the end of that story to be very interesting. She didn't ask for forgiveness, but he gave it to her anyway. He did that a few times in the Gospels. Why? Isn't it a tenant of Christianity that we must ask for His forgiveness?

I've never interpreted it as granting forgiveness.

Jesus simply declined to condemn her, though he was the one person that would have been justified in pronouncing such judgement.

The most important part of the whole story, IMO, was the command to sin no more. It's one thing to decline to pass judgement; that doesn't give you the right to pretend no sin was committed.

But that seems to be the popular thing to do nowadays.

[Future Snake Eater]

I've never interpreted it as granting forgiveness.

I suppose one could be neither forgiven nor condemned, though that really seems to be splitting hairs, and that doesn't explain Matthew 9:2 either.

[rwa265]

PJ did not cite that specific sentence, but it is in the Newsweak article.

[SpirituTuo]

In my opinion, the Douay-Rheims Bible is the gold standard for English translations of the Bible.

[verga]

When the Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus after”catching her in the very act”, they neglected one minor detail.According to Old Testament both parties were to be stoned. WHERE’S THE DUDE?

Very first time I recall hearing that Gospel I must have been about 7-8 years old. I asked my parents that exact same question. I don't recall their answer, but I know it wasn't satisfactory, because I still wonder to this day. As apparently do many of us.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[rwa265]

The way I heard it, the dudes were her accusers. What Jesus was writing on the ground was the times and dates that they were with her. That is why one by one they quietly walked away.

[warsaw44]

What Jesus was writing on the ground was the times and dates that they were with her.

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What I had been taught as well but I wondered if Christ was writing a laundry list of all their worst sins.

They walked away without an attempt at argument. The shock which must have registered with them must have been overpowering.

[GeronL]

how long until an attack on Newsweak for this blasphemy?

[warsaw44]

- working on it right now~

( just prayers NSA so relax )

[HarleyD]

I can hardly wait to see Kurt Eichenwald’s Newsweek article on the Koran and Muslims.

[Fightin Whitey]

Adolph Eichmann, Nazi

Kurt Waldheim, Nazi.

Kurt Eichenwald...