(March 13, 2016 at 4:35 pm)FebruaryOfReason Wrote:(March 13, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The story ties into the stories about not judging other people because if you do then the standard that you used to judge them will be applied to you. Matthew 7:1-5.
If he was trying to get people to judge others to the same standard as they judge themselves, then IMHO what Jesus should have said was:
"He who has never committed adultery or done something similarly bad, let him cast the first stone"
Or maybe
"He who has never committed adultery or has done so and would be prepared to be stoned to death for it, let him cast the first stone"?
But I think what he should have said was:
"Stoning someone for adultery is many times worse than adultery itself. Get a sense of proportion you vindictive bastards."
I concede this would probably not have had the same salutary effect. But it would have made a better legal precedent.
If he had sais any of those things the woman would have been stoned to death because not everyone in a random large crowd has committed adultery. Besides, his own mother was technically guilty of adultery.
