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To: Natural Law; Dr. Eckleburg
What did Jesus write in the dirt?

My guess is the names of the "religious" leaders screaming for Jesus to let them stone the prostitute that they had had sex with themselves. Sure explains why they kinda went all quiet and skulked away doesn't it? ;o)

173 posted on 01/01/2011 10:47:47 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums
My guess is the names of the "religious" leaders screaming for Jesus to let them stone the prostitute that they had had sex with themselves.

In the first place, she was "taken in adultery" -- not prostitution. In the second place, Jews were no longer stoning for adultery at the time of Christ -- the tendency of the Pharisees was generally to be more merciful than the Law of Moses required. So they would really seem to be asking whether they had the authority to override the Law of Moses. Christ's answer shifts the terms of the debate.

BTW, it's unclear to me why you seem to think it's a Christian thing to attribute unsubstantiated (even unhinted at!) evil to people who died a couple of thousand years before you were born. Is it sola Scriptura to add to Scripture if you can baselessly slander people long dead?

186 posted on 01/09/2011 2:35:33 AM PST by maryz
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