Woman Caught In the Act

I love the narrative in John 8, where the woman was caught in the act of adultery. When the religious leaders brought her to Him and said the Law demanded her death, it wasn't about their desire to keep the Law. It was rather about them wanting to have something of which to accuse Jesus so that they could justify their own sin: "This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him" (John 8:6).

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus then stooped down and wrote something on the ground "as though he heard them not."

We don't know what He wrote on the ground, but I think we can have a good idea. Some say it was the men's sins, but that would have taken a lot of writing. There's an easier way to write man's sins. I think Jesus wrote the Ten Commandments in the sand. What else does God write with His finger? (see Exodus 31:18). What took place is what happens when the Law does its work—they were convicted in their conscience (John 8:9), and their accusing mouths were stopped (see Romans 3:19-20).

When God wrote His Law in stone it was permanent. But when Jesus wrote in sand, it meant what was written could easily be erased with one move of His merciful hand.

So when self-righteous sinners come to you accusing you of some sin to try and justify their own sinfulness, do what Jesus did. Don't listen to their accusations. Instead, turn it back on them by giving them the Law, and by the grace of God show them that they can only throw stones if they are without sin.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 19 May 2014 ·
www.livingwaters.com

OLAADEGBU:
Woman Caught In the Act

I love the narrative in John 8, where the woman was caught in the act of adultery. When the religious leaders brought her to Him and said the Law demanded her death, it wasn’t about their desire to keep the Law. It was rather about them wanting to have something of which to accuse Jesus so that they could justify their own sin: “This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him” (John 8:6).

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus then stooped down and wrote something on the ground “as though he heard them not.”

We don't know what He wrote on the ground, but I think we can have a good idea. Some say it was the men's sins, but that would have taken a lot of writing. There's an easier way to write mean's sins. I think Jesus wrote the Ten Commandments in the sand. What else does God write with His finger? (see Exodus 31:18). What took place is what happens when the Law does its work—they were convicted in their conscience (John 8:9), and their accusing mouths were stopped (see Romans 3:19-20).

When God wrote His Law in stone it was permanent. But when Jesus wrote in sand, it meant what was written could easily be erased with one move of His merciful hand.

So when self-righteous sinners come to you accusing you of some sin to try and justify their own sinfulness, do what Jesus did. Don't listen to their accusations. Instead, turn it back on them by giving them the Law, and by the grace of God show them that they can only throw stones if they are without sin.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 19 May 2014 ·
www.livingwaters.com

So they were going to stone her according to the law he himself supposedly wrote but he changed his mind? What of all the other people they had killed would they also be retroactively getting pardons?

LordReed:


So they were going to stone her according to the law he himself supposedly wrote but he changed his mind? What of all the other people they had killed would they also be retroactively getting pardons?

your attack on every Christian thread is overwhelmed. its obvious you are being used by Satan unknowingly, deny it and call me names as usual, but that the truth.

malvisguy212:
your attack on every Christian thread is overwhelmed. its obvious you are being used by Satan unknowingly, deny it and call me names as usual, but that the truth.

That's your usual Christian hypocrite bullshíte talking. You came to the thread calling me an agent of satan but expect to be civil to you and not call you names, are you not a hypocrite?

I pointed out obvious flaws in your Christian theology, is your god unable to defend itself that you need to vilify me to feel good about yourself?

LordReed:


That's your usual Christian hypocrite bullshíte talking. You came to the thread calling me an agent of satan but expect to be civil to you and not call you names, are you not a hypocrite?

I pointed out obvious flaws in your Christian theology, is your god unable to defend itself that you need to vilify me to feel good about yourself?

you ask a dead question bro. God has a way dealing with sinners before and after the first coming of Jesus . take for instance the adultery committed by David and Bathsheba, this was before the dispensation of Grace, how the God handle this ? the adulterous woman commit the act at the time of JESUS MINISTRY.

the reason I liken you as Satan is because just as the devil always do his trick, you are in some kind of way, justify the act .adulterers are not required to repent of their adultery (and hence to sever such relationships),

malvisguy212:
you ask a dead question bro. God has a way dealing with sinners before and after the first coming of Jesus . take for instance the adultery committed by David and Bathsheba, this was before the dispensation of Grace, how the God handle this ? the adulterous woman commit the act at the time of JESUS MINISTRY.

the reason I liken you as Satan is because just as the devil always do his trick, you are in some kind of way, justify the act .adulterers are not required to repent of their adultery (and hence to sever such relationships),

The same god you people say doesn't change? The same god that supposedly knows the begin from the end gives a law by which undoubtedly many people had been killed but somehow the god just overlooks it and say oh it all different now. Such a funny god.

LordReed:


The same god you people say doesn't change? The same god that supposedly knows the begin from the end gives a law by which undoubtedly many people had been killed but somehow the god just overlooks it and say oh it all different now. Such a funny god.

lol. you know what ? I love your comment, it just show how scriptural sound you guys are. you should open a church.

OLAADEGBU:
Woman Caught In the Act

I love the narrative in John 8, where the woman was caught in the act of adultery. When the religious leaders brought her to Him and said the Law demanded her death, it wasn’t about their desire to keep the Law. It was rather about them wanting to have something of which to accuse Jesus so that they could justify their own sin: “This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him” (John 8:6).

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus then stooped down and wrote something on the ground “as though he heard them not.”

We don't know what He wrote on the ground, but I think we can have a good idea. Some say it was the men's sins, but that would have taken a lot of writing. There's an easier way to write mean's sins. I think Jesus wrote the Ten Commandments in the sand. What else does God write with His finger? (see Exodus 31:18). What took place is what happens when the Law does its work—they were convicted in their conscience (John 8:9), and their accusing mouths were stopped (see Romans 3:19-20).

When God wrote His Law in stone it was permanent. But when Jesus wrote in sand, it meant what was written could easily be erased with one move of His merciful hand.

So when self-righteous sinners come to you accusing you of some sin to try and justify their own sinfulness, do what Jesus did. Don't listen to their accusations. Instead, turn it back on them by giving them the Law, and by the grace of God show them that they can only throw stones if they are without sin.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 19 May 2014 ·
www.livingwaters.com

When God wrote His Law in stone it was permanent. But when Jesus wrote in sand, it meant what was written could easily be erased with one move of His merciful hand.

Interesting!

LordReed:


So they were going to stone her according to the law he himself supposedly wrote but he changed his mind? What of all the other people they had killed would they also be retroactively getting pardons?

It is called mercy. Have you ever heard of mercy over judgment? It is true that God has judged the whole world as being guilty before Him (Romans 3:19,23) but Jesus was able to offer that woman caught in the act of adultery forgiveness, because He was on His way to pay for her sin by dying on the cross. The woman accepted Jesus as "Lord" but He still told her to "go and sin no more." If the woman didn't repent she would have likewise perished like the others you claimed died, in their sins. It is high time you repented and believe on Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour so that you will not perish like others.

OpenYourEyes1:



Interesting!

It is true that God's law written in stone is permanent, "The soul that sins shall die" and that is death Jesus came to die on our behalf, He paid the price, He took the Fall for us. If you reject the price He paid for you then you will have to pay it by yourself.

OLAADEGBU:


It is called mercy. Have you ever heard of mercy over judgment? It is true that God has judged the whole world as being guilty before Him (Romans 3:19,23) but Jesus was able to offer that woman caught in the act of adultery forgiveness, because He was on His way to pay for her sin by dying on the cross. The woman accepted Jesus as "Lord" but He still told her to "go and sin no more." If the woman didn't repent she would have likewise perished like the others you claimed died, in their sins. It is high time you repented and believe on Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour so that you will not perish like others.

This doesn't answer the question. How does a god who knows it is going to change the commandment it gave, allow people to be killed for thousands of years first? It makes no sense neither does needing a saviour. Sin is a religious construct that you need to sell the idea of a saviour for, by guilt tripping people who buy the cock and bull stories.

LordReed:


This doesn't answer the question. How does a god who knows it is going to change the commandment it gave, allow people to be killed for thousands of years first? It makes no sense neither does needing a saviour. Sin is a religious construct that you need to sell the idea of a saviour for, by guilt tripping people who buy the cock and bull stories.

This is God's commandment:

"The soul that sins shall die" that has not changed. It is either you accept Christ's death on our behalf or you face this penalty yourself.

OLAADEGBU:


This is God's commandment:

"The soul that sins shall die" that has not changed. It is either you accept Christ's death on our behalf or you face this penalty yourself.

Mythology. Zeus also gives eternal punishment, I am not afraid of Zeus, why should I fear your god?

LordReed:


Mythology. Zeus also gives eternal punishment, I am not afraid of Zeus, why should I fear your god?

I wonder why you hate God so much?

OLAADEGBU:


I wonder why you hate Him so much?

I wonder why you like to put words in my mouth and assume so much?

LordReed:


I wonder why you like to put words in my mouth and assume so much?

I did not put words into your mouth if you say you don't believe what God says you are practically calling Him a liar or are you expecting me to call you a friend of God?

OLAADEGBU:


I did not put words into your mouth if you say you don't believe what God says you are practically calling Him a liar or are you expecting me to call you a friend of God?

Again assuming I think a god of such characteristics as you describe exists for me to express emotions towards.

LordReed:


Again assuming I think a god of such characteristics as you describe exists for me to express emotions towards.

You may suppress the truth about God by denying Him all you want but the fact remains that you have no excuse.

OLAADEGBU:


You may suppress the truth about God by denying Him all you want but the fact remains that you have no excuse.

You may assert that a god exists all you want but with no evidence to back up your claims it is just noise.

LordReed:


You may assert that a god exists all you want but with no evidence to back up your claims it is just noise.

I already gave you the scientific evidence of God's existence which stopped you in your tract. Here it is again in case you are pretending not to have seen it.

And if you're looking for the scientific evidence that demands God's existence then you have to be scientifically inclined to arrive at the conclusion below:

There are only three possibilities from where the universe can come from. By way of elimination we will arrive at the scientific evidence of the origin of the universe which took just 6 days.

(1). The universe created itself; or

(2). The universe has always existed, or

(3). The universe was created.

1. The universe created itself:

Can something create itself? Can nothing create something? The answer to these is an absolute No. We all know that something cannot create itself and nothing can't create something. From Latin we have the phrase "ex nihilo, nihil fit" meaning "from nothing, nothing comes." It also violates the law of cause and effect, that says for every effect there must be a cause. The effect can't be greater than the cause and nothing cannot be greater than something. Therefore, based on the laws of science and logic, the universe couldn't have created itself. That leaves us with options 2 and 3.

2. The univese has always existed:

Lets go to the 2nd law of thermodynamics that basically teaches that "the whole universe is losing usable energy for doing usable work." This means that the usable energy in this universe is wearing down. The universe as a whole is losing energy. In other words, molecules as a whole are slowing down.

Therefore, if this universe was eternal we will be in what is called a "virtual heat death." This means that there will be virtually no molecular movement. Everything would have lost its available heat energy for doing work. Therefore, the universe cannot be eternal, it must have had a beginning. The theory that the universe has always existed or is eternal has to be false based on the law of science and logic, another speculation gone with the air. This leaves us with only one possibility based on science. Which is that:

3. The universe was created:

"In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth." -- Genesis 1:1

Science confirms the biblical verse that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth as we have just shown. With this verse we see that God is outside time. He is eternal, with no beginning or end. He also knows all things, being infinitely intelligent. To recognise His handiwork, you should be able to know how to recognise the evidence of the works of His intelligence. This is simple.

When I look at a building, how do I know that there was a builder? I can't see him, hear him, touch, smell or taste him. The evidence of a builder is the building I'm looking at. In other words, the building is the proof positive that there was a builder. The building is the product of the intelligence of the builder. Living things are also evidence of design. Wouldn't it be logical to assume that if man's highly intelligent brain designed the computer, then the human brain was also the product of design?

There is nothing illogical or unscientific about an Eternal Being who has always existed. Nobody created the infinite God. He is the Self-Existent One, the great "I AM THAT I AM" of the Bible. He is outside time because He created time. Everything that has a beginning requires a cause. The universe has a beginning and thus requires a cause. But the almighty God has no beginning since He is beyond time. Therefore, the almighty God does not need a cause. (See more on answersingenesis.org )

OLAADEGBU:


I already gave you the scientific evidence of God's existence which stopped you in your tract. Here it is again in case you are pretending not to have seen it.

That's the problem with people like you. If I don't answer you, you claim victory, if I answer you, you claim I hate the god.

I have pointed out elsewhere I am done with long winded arguments for the god. If a god objectively exists I expect objective proof of its existence not meandering arguments that are nothing more than an exercise in logic and could also be made for any number of things which are not real. Produce me some tangible evidence that's what I asked for.

LordReed:


That's the problem with people like you. If I don't answer you, you claim victory, if I answer you, you claim I hate the god.

I have pointed out elsewhere I am done with long winded arguments for the god. If a god objectively exists I expect objective proof of its existence not meandering arguments that are nothing more than an exercise in logic and could also be made for any number of things which are not real. Produce me some tangible evidence that's what I asked for.

"I don't hate God. I just don't believe He exists."

Such is the way of many cultures that if a son or daughter marries out of the faith or does something of which they strongly disagree, in the parent's minds, they no longer exist. There is no greater contempt for a person than to so hate them they don't exist in your mind.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 27 May 2015 at 16:13 ·
www.livingwaters.com

OLAADEGBU:


"I don't hate God. I just don't believe He exists."

Such is the way of many cultures that if a son or daughter marries out of the faith or does something of which they strongly disagree, in the parent's minds, they no longer exist. There is no greater contempt for a person than to so hate them they don't exist in your mind.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 27 May 2015 at 16:13 ·
www.livingwaters.com

False equivalence. A god did not appear to me that I am now denying. Fact is there is no proof such a god exists so how can I be showing contempt for a nonexistent being?

OLAADEGBU:


I wonder why you hate God so much?

I have been reading that Ray Comfort is one of the sweetest morons that ever roamed the earth. I thought that couldn't be true and atheists were just exaggerating. That was until I saw the quote that was attributed to him in that picture.

How many people claim leprechauns and fairies are real and promise u eternal damnation for not believe they exist? Or go about asking that civil laws should be written with that in mind?

If who believe in fairies do not bother others who don't, why should anyone worry about them?
The average Christian is a mor0n. Lol

OLAADEGBU:
Woman Caught In the Act

I love the narrative in John 8, where the woman was caught in the act of adultery. When the religious leaders brought her to Him and said the Law demanded her death, it wasn't about their desire to keep the Law. It was rather about them wanting to have something of which to accuse Jesus so that they could justify their own sin: "This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him" (John 8:6).

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus then stooped down and wrote something on the ground “as though he heard them not."

We don't know what He wrote on the ground, but I think we can have a good idea. Some say it was the men's sins, but that would have taken a lot of writing. There's an easier way to write man's sins. I think Jesus wrote the Ten Commandments in the sand. What else does God write with His finger? (see Exodus 31:18). What took place is what happens when the Law does its work—they were convicted in their conscience (John 8:9), and their accusing mouths were stopped (see Romans 3:19-20).

When God wrote His Law in stone it was permanent. But when Jesus wrote in sand, it meant what was written could easily be erased with one move of His merciful hand.

So when self-righteous sinners come to you accusing you of some sin to try and justify their own sinfulness, do what Jesus did. Don't listen to their accusations. Instead, turn it back on them by giving them the Law, and by the grace of God show them that they can only throw stones if they are without sin.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 19 May 2014 ·
www.livingwaters.com

Brother, you keep confusing yourself when you post article from other people who write contradictory things and you buy into it and post or re-post....

ANYWAY, That woman caught in the act is the representation of the church of Jesus. That's why she doesn't have a name mentioned to her and that's why the man wasn't caught in the act with her so that Christ can fill in the space to die for her.

NPComplete:


I have been reading that Ray Comfort is one of the sweetest morons that ever roamed the earth. I thought that couldn't be true and atheists were just exaggerating. That was until I saw the quote that was attributed to him in that picture.

How many people claim leprechauns and fairies are real and promise u eternal damnation for not believe they exist? Or go about asking that civil laws should be written with that in mind?

If who believe in fairies do not bother others who don't, why should anyone worry about them?
The average Christian is a mor0n. Lol

You still didn't get it. You don't hate or worry about leprechauns and fairies because they don't exist but you hate God because He exists and that you are accountable to Him. Do you get that?

LordReed:


False equivalence. A god did not appear to me that I am now denying. Fact is there is no proof such a god exists so how can I be showing contempt for a nonexistent being?

If God does not exist there will be no atheists.

Goshen360:


Brother, you keep confusing yourself when you post article from other people who write contradictory things and you buy into it and post or re-post....

You can now see where following secular ideologies has landed you. You no longer understand spiritual principles and you are beginning to speak like the accusers that brought that woman to Jesus for judgment.

Goshen360:


ANYWAY, That woman caught in the act is the representation of the church of Jesus. That's why she doesn't have a name mentioned to her and that's why the man wasn't caught in the act with her so that Christ can fill in the space to die for her.

You are losing it. Are you now spiritualising a historical event, are you saying because her name was not mentioned that means it was a parable? There is no way a Christian can be a Democrat and remain with a Christian worldview.

OLAADEGBU:


If God does not exist there will be no atheists.

If there was a god there be evidence.

Goshen360:
Brother, you keep confusing yourself when you post article from other people who write contradictory things and you buy into it and post or re-post....

Please cut a sincere man going about the Father's business some slack bro, at least he credit the post and didnt put it forward as if from him. Dont let your furtive tiff and what you've in the past, disagreed with OLAADEGBU, get the better of you and just be like that, having a dig at him nau bro. Meet me down, immediately below anyway so we do this together.

Goshen360:
ANYWAY, That woman caught in the act is the representation of the church of Jesus. That's why she doesn't have a name mentioned to her and that's why the man wasn't caught in the act with her so that Christ can fill in the space to die for her.

"¹Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives,
²but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.
³As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
⁴“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
⁵The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
⁶They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.
⁷They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”
⁸Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
⁹When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.
¹⁰Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
¹¹“No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”"
- John 8:1-11

Fair enough, the woman caught in the "act" is the representation of the church of Jesus, as in, that's why she doesn't have a name mentioned to her, right? Hmm, but have you ever thought, why doesnt the woman have a name? Why wasn't a man caught in the act with her or why wasnt there, a man caught in the act with her?

Well, this whole matter Goshen360, simply points out to, this was a set up, to get Jesus, as the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees were a wicked and desperate lot, running out of patience with Jesus and so an innocent, home alone woman, was dragged out of her bed to the "market square" and deliberately made to look guilty for a not real and present sin.

The adultery charge against her was an invention by the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, created in order to deceive. This is why there is no and/or was no man was caught in the act. It, altogether and all along was a fictitious adultery act she committed. The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, fabricated all this, based it on false information, and so this woman was falsely accused of doing something wrong that has a punishment of death by stoning. This all just done, in the quest to trap Jesus, get Him into trouble, a dilemma, vicious circle and/or in a tough nut to crack situation.

The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, with stones in their hands to ready to unleash, eagerly waiting Jesus' judgement, obviously were saying amongst themselves, "He is not going to say she hasnt sin, would He" and "or is He going to now", they probably thought too.

The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, believed they have got Jesus in a tight corner and/or spot, that is not easy to escape from and that they have given Jesus a difficult John 8:5 question and perplexing problem He wouldnt be able to resolve. This was a practice session for the teachers of religious law and the Pharisee, as they later and eventually became very skilled and proficient at setting people up, on trumped up charges and be sentenced to death, that similar, in the end, was done to Jesus too.

Even if there was a man caught in the imaginary adultery act, isnt it ironic and typical that he was allowed to escape and so be let off the hook and noose. Anyway, Jesus being all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing saw through their whole charade, fraud and monkey busines, so no harm came on the woman and the rest is now history

OLAADEGBU:
You can now see where following secular ideologies has landed you. You no longer understand spiritual principles and you are beginning to speak like the accusers that brought that woman to Jesus for judgment

Softly, softly ooo, no, not knives nau bro, please dont bring out knives.

OLAADEGBU:
You are losing it. Are you now spiritualising a historical event, are you saying because her name was not mentioned that means it was a parable? There is no way a Christian can be a Democrat and remain with a Christian worldview

If we go check out Luke 14:7, Luke 15:3, Luke 16:1a etcetera, we'll see from them, that Jesus, told quite a sizeable amount of parables, varying in total, between a number of 45 and 60, and that they usually have a plethora of lessons and moral truth in them.

As most parables, usually are, a good amount of them, actually are a faithful representation of reality. They at times are told, as a story, with verisimilitude characters having actual or real human being's name. Case in point, Luke 16 has a parable mention, with the Rich man & Poor man named, Lazarus characters, and so Luke 16 is an example of parables with verisimilitude characters and where a charater's name is mentioned

OLAADEGBU:


You still didn't get it. You don't hate or worry about leprechauns and fairies because they don't exist but you hate God because He exists and that you are accountable to Him. Do you get that?

Chai Olaadegbu is slow. I gave u the answer and yet u still type something so moronic.
Why do u worry about Muslims and Allah when u also believe that Allah doesn't exist? Because u believe Allah does exist and u are accountable to Allah? See how foolish u now look?

Nobody worries about fairies because there are no fairy believers who go about disturbing people about fairies and claiming that fairies will take us to the after life. But people worry about your own beliefs because of obvious slow believers like yourself who go about creating threads upon threads about myths and outright lies disturbing our ears on the street about some rapture that will never happen and asking for government policies to favour Ur beliefs. Same thing Muslims do that makes you to create threads against them here.

I hope u get it now. I know thinking isn't the Christian way but try to use your head and understand what I wrote before replying me and making a monkey of yourself again.

I believe in God by the way. I just don't believe in the god u believe in. The one that sends morons like u to speak for him when he could just appear to everyone the same time. Lol