(June 24, 2014 at 4:30 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(June 24, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: To put it simply.
The book of Leviticus explains to the priesthood (Levites) how they were to preform their duties.
Funny. If that were the case, why would Jesus have had to tell the crowd NOT to stone the woman to death, as per Leviticus instruction? And Jesus didn't say the law was inapplicable to her, but that only "he who was without sin" could rightfully do so. Of course, that would make one wonder why Jesus didn't stone her to do, supposedly having been sinless himself.
That particular story isn't about sexual activity but rather worshiping foreign gods. In the Bible the word "adultery" has two different meanings. You have to decipher it in the proper context.
Jesus had been waltzing around claiming that he was the son of God and that people had to worship him. The woman the crowd caught was Jewish and she was probably seen at a non-Jewish temple. Given Jesus' statements he couldn't very well condemn the woman because he had been asking the crowd to worship him instead of the traditional Jewish deity. So he punted.
