Where in that text did Jesus call the woman a sinner? Where did He say ANYTHING publicly about her?
After all the people had dropped their stones and left (the older, wiser ones first - the ones who had had a lifetime to realize their own sin), Jesus told the woman He also would not condemn her and told her to go and sin no more.
If public shaming was the way to redeem broken sinners, then Jesus would have acted a lot differently than He actually did. I’m inclined to believe the Scripture that says it is the Lord’s KINDNESS that leads us to repentance.
Jesus did use harsh words at times - usually on the self-righteous, whose sin was private enough that others didn’t judge them all the time.
Sounds to me as if this mom had already had six years of all the “holy” people reminding her daughter that all the problems in her life were her fault. Yet none of that fixed anything, did it? The child still didn’t have a father in her life, and that’s all that matters, right?
I know someone on Facebook who has three out of wedlock biracial children. (Same dad, he was a high school athlete she had a crush on but didn’t have the courage to date.
Flash forward a few years, he’s playing minor league ball and suddenly she’s got courage.
Three kids later he never got the courage to put a ring on it and reverted to the ghetto when the ball thing didn’t work out.
She got a little religion and is always going on and on about how God’s going to send her a Boaz.
However, I’m afraid she’s learning a sad but real fact of life: there is far less demand for used merchandise.
>Where in that text did Jesus call the woman a sinner? Where did He say ANYTHING publicly about her?
Go forth and sin no more? People didn’t wallow in sin back then the why modern people seem to. Hey we’re all sinners and that’s A-OK! Jesus talked about being righteousness not excusing sin.
>After all the people had dropped their stones and left (the older, wiser ones first - the ones who had had a lifetime to realize their own sin), Jesus told the woman He also would not condemn her and told her to go and sin no more.
To condemn her meant killing her for the penalty for adultery is death. Jesus gave her a reprieve because he’s God. To claim that you are as holy as Jesus and can give every adulteress a reprieve is setting yourself up as holy as Jesus. Are you God? I think not.
>If public shaming was the way to redeem broken sinners, then Jesus would have acted a lot differently than He actually did. I’m inclined to believe the Scripture that says it is the Lord’s KINDNESS that leads us to repentance.
Are you as holy as Jesus and can you forgive sins? Only God can. For us mere mortals we must keep the law and writings of the apostles.
Here’s what we must keep:
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
>Sounds to me as if this mom had already had six years of all the “holy” people reminding her daughter that all the problems in her life were her fault. Yet none of that fixed anything, did it? The child still didn’t have a father in her life, and that’s all that matters, right?
Again you claim to be more holy than Jesus. She’s a sinner and yet you forgive her sins, something that you do not have the power to do. Punishment for bad behavior exists so that the righteous may not fall into sin like this woman.