(March 1, 2014 at 11:05 am)Chad32 Wrote: Well that explains some things. So when a woman started washing Jesus' "feet" in front of people, I can understand why he'd be upset when another woman wanted her to stop and do something else. That's just a whole different image right there.
In the Bible words don't always mean what you think they mean. For instance, adultery can mean infidelity in a traditional marriage. But in some cases it means that the person is worshiping another deity.
Consider the case when the crowd caught the woman in the very act of adultery. It doesn't make sense that they caught her having sex with another guy. It does make sense that she was caught performing a religious ritual to another deity other than to the traditional Jewish deity. Maybe she was seen worshiping a Roman deity.
Do it make sense that she would be having sex in plain sight or that the crowd would barge into her room? And if it was sexual they would have had to apprehend the man as well. Since her husband wasn't there it plainly is a story about her worshiping a foreign deity.
So when the crowd brought the woman to Jesus he couldn't condemn her because his momma had spent years telling him that his daddy was God and that he was the son of God. And he had been going around telling the folks that he was in fact the son of God and that they had to do what he said if they wanted to be "saved."
There are other stories about how the word adultery is used to mean the worship of other deities. You have to be aware of the context. If it's sexual it usually plainly says so.
