New testament is what you want to focus on. The Old Testament is for Jewish people who don’t believe in Jesus.
She's Jewish, and frankly I understand how some humans running in to rewrite stuff and crop portions out might look bad to someone who's read the expanded lore.
Jesus made the Old Testament old news. Stoning people was not cool anymore when Jesus came. He literally said let he who is without sin cast the first stone or something like that and only he was without sin and didn’t stone anyone.
And someday soon we may be seeing a New-New Testament to celebrate the remarrying of The Divine Mother and Father, so we might as well just disregard the current Testament too for similar reasons.
by let he who is without sin cast the fist stone he meant let the person who isn't breaking the rules in this botched trial rn cast the first stone. what he wrote on the ground were probably the verses (if he wrote on the ground) that refer to the laws of the court. breaking the laws of the court or being caught in corruption would lead to some scary punishments by the community far worse than what they were going to do to that poor woman.
any self respecting Jew seeing a fucked trial like that going down would have done the same shit.
Jesus had many problems with the Pharisees. A lot of Jewish people think Christians can be "anti-semetic" because Jesus had a lot to say about Judaism.
Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others".
Revelation 3:17-18 "For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see".
Matthew 12:7 "And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless".
Matthew 23:1-4 "Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. “They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger".
Matthew 23:13-14 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. 14 “(Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation)".
Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness".
Matthew 23:33 “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
This song is deep and talks about it:
“So many people think biblical faith is about changing our behaviour. Many of the Pharisees and experts of the Law in Jesus’ day were convinced that religion was an outward expression only. Our culture often makes the same mistake. Rules and regulations are substituted for a genuine change of heart. All the while, God points us back into His Word. There is nothing in it – nothing at all – to encourage a righteousness that is skin deep.”
If you ever have the time:
he was implying he was going to report the corruption to the council of elders
that story didn't mean fuck what the "old testament" says, or the rules are different, the opposite it meant keep the rules the same.
this was basic shit, and it didn't mean do whatever the fuck you want and don't be judged for it cus "everyone sins" or sit there quietly when other people are doing dumb shit.
No... you can't do "whatever you want". But you can "do unto others as you would want done". I would want mercy. He say "go and sin no more" to her. Jesus Christ was sinless and did not throw a stone either~
But you are right... This does not mean "go and sin on". It's just "have mercy" for this is a virtue.
Matthew 18:32-33 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’'"
in fact it doesn't mean "don't judge" or what you really mean is "don't deal out penalty for sin/don't call people out" he was doing the opposite. he was calling them out in that situation when no one else would.
in fact those people were probably Jewish pimps punishing that woman for not doing something they wanted, and abusing/bending the law to strike fear in whatever other women they enslaved at that time to make an example out of her, while also getting away with it, so that's even more context.
the story isn't that weird or mysterious once you understand the context of the time.
Yes I know they did the trial wrong... Christians don't stone people though. Because we understand mercy and redemption. I don't really believe in the death penalty because I think a person needs every chance to repent.
it was a story of a revolutionary man standing up against corruption of the law and upholding the law rather than "changing" it in his community.
any Karaite jew could actually use this story as an example for themselves since our philosophy of the Torah was in this specific instance similar to his. keep it the same, and follow it for what it (actually) says.
in fact people think because I'm Jewish I hate Jesus, quite the opposite, my Judaism gives me a better perspective of this man and he was a badass
Ikr <3
