Posted on 09/29/2020 7:31:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CHINA, September 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― A Chinese ethics textbook developed with some oversight from the communist Chinese government depicts Jesus killing the woman caught in adultery.
The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News) reported last week that a textbook produced for vocational students by the Chinese University of Electronic Science and Technology Press changed the ending of the famous Gospel story.
As in the original, the crowd cites law as their justification for stoning an adulteress to death. Jesus says “Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.” The accusers leave, one by one.
But then, according to the textbook, “When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, ‘I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead’."
The correct ending to the Gospel account, which is in John 8:3-11, shows Jesus refusing to condemn the woman: “Jesus again straightened up and said, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?' 'No one, sir,' she replied. 'Neither do I condemn you,' said Jesus. 'Go away, and from this moment sin no more.’”
According to UCA News, the textbook is used to teach “professional ethics and law.”
Both education and publishing are strictly controlled by the totalitarian communist Chinese government. According to UCA, a Catholic in China published the textbook on social media, suggesting that this warped version of the Gospel was a communist attack on the Catholic Church.
"I want everyone to know that the Chinese Communist Party has always tried to distort the history of the Church, to slander our Church, and to make people hate our Church," he wrote.
UCA also quoted a Christian vocational teacher, Matthew Wang, who confirmed that the textbook did contain the story, but said that its “content varies from place to place within China.”
Massimo Introvigne of Bitter Winter, a magazine about “religious liberty and human rights in China”, wrote that the point of the story was to underscore the supremacy of the law as handed down by the Chinese Communist Party.
“As told to Chinese students, the story teaches that the law and the Party are good and pure, and transcend the impure human beings who happen to represent them,” the Italian sociologist of religions wrote.
“Even if the officers are corrupted, their decision should be accepted—because, honest or corrupted, they represent the Party, and the Party’s law should never be questioned.”
“This is standard CCP theory, but totally distorts the meaning of Jesus’ teaching in John 8. Mobilizing Jesus for the CCP propaganda is blasphemous and offensive to Christians.”
According to UCA, at least one Chinese Catholics has complained that the Church in China does not fight back against this kind of distortion. Sociologist Introvigne wrote that Christians can expect more of the same from the Chinese government as it continues its policy of making Christianity more “sinicized” (Chinese).
Sinicization does not mean incorporating more Chinese cultural aspects into Chinese Christianity, as the destruction of beautiful Christian churches designed according to traditional Chinese architecture attests. It effectively means watering down Christianity so that it is not a threat to the values of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2019, French daily Le Figaro reported that the Chinese government had demanded that Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims alter their respective sacred texts so as to conform with "the requirements of the new era."
According to this report, Christians’ Gospel parables should fall "in line with the Communist Party, failing which they run the risk of being purged from the Bibles available to the faithful."
Commies ruin everything.
CCP rewrites the Bible, the American Left rewrites history and teaches it to our kids.
They’ve gotten a plague of locusts. They’ve gotten flood, They’ve gotten actual plagues of illnesses, both human and livestock. They’re eyeball-to-eyeball with famine, and they’re still messing with The Bible?
And add a dash of parents who have an 6th grade IQ it’s all a part of how it got like they has.
From the last chapter of the last book of The Bible...
REV 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Some ask the Lavender Mafia in the Vatican about this one.
And Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Let him who is without sin among you, cast the first stone."
Just then, a small rock whizzes through the air from the back of the crowd and catches the poor girl square on the nose.
"MOMMMMM! Cut it OUT!"
Mary was without sin?
Immaculate Conception, remember?
That’s why it’s specifically a Catholic joke.
The dims probably have pre-ordered a few million copies.
I have met a Russian who left in ‘88.
She has told me their was a mandatory college class everyone had to take on Atheism.
Seems strange to be forced to take a class that says “We believe in nothing”
She says the class was even stranger than you could imagine.
Amen and Amen again.
I have read many books about the OT scribes and NT translators and have found the same thing in almost all accounts. They believed they were doing Holy work and feared to make mistakes because they took the word of God at face value. Every jot and tittle was deemed important.
Isaac Newton believed that studying the Bible was more important than the work he did on mathematics.
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