Have you heard of the Office of the Keys? We are given the authority to announce the forgiveness of God.
Jesus did not publicly shame this woman. He privately told her to go and sin no more.
You said you would throw the first stone. Either you believe you are without sin or you are willing to disobey Jesus’ command that whoever is without sin could throw the first stone.
Obviously we need to teach and preach the commands of God. Sexual immorality - like gossip and lovelessness - is sin, and we need to say that. When we have a relationship with a person we can show them that God’s way is best for them and for everybody else. Knowing that we speak in love for their good gives them a reason to listen.
People DID wallow in sin back then. That’s why Jesus had to speak so harshly to the Pharisees and scribes. It was just a different KIND of sin. Loveless self-righteousness.
BTW, Rahab the prostitute was an earthly ancestor of Jesus Christ.
>Have you heard of the Office of the Keys? We are given the authority to announce the forgiveness of God.
You are not given authority to absolve someone of their sin which is what you’ve been doing this entire thread.
>Jesus did not publicly shame this woman. He privately told her to go and sin no more.
You do realize that his disciples were there recording this event, right? It was quite public.
>You said you would throw the first stone. Either you believe you are without sin or you are willing to disobey Jesus’ command that whoever is without sin could throw the first stone.
Amazing. You turn Jesus forgiving this women into a general forgiveness of all sluts and whores.
Isaiah 5:20 ESV
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
>Obviously we need to teach and preach the commands of God. Sexual immorality - like gossip and lovelessness - is sin, and we need to say that.
And yet you spend all this time defending and forgiving her sin. You’re more offended at my attacks on her sin than at her sins. Makes one wonder if you’re not lying about hating sin.
>People DID wallow in sin back then. That’s why Jesus had to speak so harshly to the Pharisees and scribes. It was just a different KIND of sin. Loveless self-righteousness.
They did not. The Pharisees spent their time making up special rules that only they keep keep that allowed them to be declared as more holy the next guy. That was their sin because the law was given to help people live righteous lives not to lift people who where gaming the law through self righteousness. You on the other hand wallow in the very serious sin of sexual immorality which is the only sin that Jesus allowed a divorce to be based on and compare it to minor sins like gossip. That’s the talk of someone trying to cheapen sin, not fight it.
>BTW, Rahab the prostitute was an earthly ancestor of Jesus Christ.
Rahab chose the path of righteousness and stopped her sin. Like Rahab, my great-great grandmother was knocked up at 15 and was quickly married to to my step great-great grand father who she gave 8 children to. She went forth and sinned no more by getting married and she never wallowed in her sin or repeated it because of the social pressure against that behavior.
The woman in this article has not and your defense of her sin by comparing her to righteous women is shameful. As is your desire not to have any social pressure applied to her sinful behavior. My great grandmother and my entire family line benefited from being harsh on sluts and bastards while this little girl will grow up to be just like her mother.