Jesus and the Stoners ?

Jesus and the Stoners ?

While reading the threads and listening to various views, One notices that in the minds of some, a glaring misconception about Jesus has taken hold. Because of an incorrect understanding of the story about the woman who is caught in adultery, those who stand in opposition to capital punishment, have come to the incorrect assumption that Christ shares their view. And because of this flawed assumption, the anti-capital punishment crowd routinely invokes that story to buttress their view that capital punishment should be eliminated.

In order to comprehend that story, it is very important that Believers understand the characters of the woman's accusers. The Pharisees who were always demanding justice when others committed crimes, were and are the biggest and most corrupt group of religious criminals the world has ever seen. While they are exacting justice for the crimes which others had committed, they themselves are doing the same things and worse. But because of their positions, power, and intimidation of the people, no one until Jesus, dared to question or cross them. Jesus sees the hypocrisy of these Pharisees and he is disgusted by it. And because he is not intimidated by their false appearance of religiosity, he is not afraid to challenge their hypocrisy. So, when the Pharisees bring this woman for stoning, Jesus is not challenging the legality or the inhumanity of the punishment; instead, he is challenging the hypocrisy and the unequal justice of the administers.

Now, to challenge this hypocrisy and unequal justice, Jesus makes the now famous statement, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." From this one statement, comes the incorrect assumption that Jesus is conveying the message that because no man is without sin, then there should not be any judging or capital punishment. This is categorically wrong. This is because if this were the case, then Jesus would also be implying that there can be no justice system at all. After all, sinful man is in charge of all justice systems. And if a man with sin is not allowed to cast stones, then there can be no judges. And if no judges, no legal system. And if no legal system or means of accountability, there would be chaos.

So, in that statement, Jesus is not speaking of all sin or all men. Instead he is speaking directly to the sin of adultery in reference to the Pharisees. You see, the only difference between that woman and the Pharisees was power and position. All of the Pharisee who are there to accuse the woman are doing the same thing. All of them from the oldest to the youngest are corrupt and committing adultery. The only difference is that their power and positions afforded them protection and cover. But it did not offer them cover from Jesus. He saw their corrupt ways and challenged them on it. This is why they hated and detested him without a cause. And this hate and detestation drove the Pharisees and there group to kill or destroy Jesus and anyone who is for uncorrupted truth and justice.

Finally, during that engagement, Jesus is not condemning capital punishment. Instead, he is condemning the corrupt Pharisees and their manipulation and corruption of the justice system. And because justice had been corrupted, it was not equally or equitably meted out.

So questions; Who are the Pharisees in your life? Who are the hypocrites is your life?
Have you become a Pharisee? Have you become hypocritical?

Are you or anyone that you are aware of, currently in the act of doing something which you are condemning others for?

You that preachest that a man should not abort or support abortion, do you murder and support murder?




Romans 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?