Some like to justify hideous acts of evil with phrases like "Gods ways are higher than ours".
However, when women and children are murdered I call it evil. Nomadic people had a way of
attributing to God the work of the devil. What is ironic is if the same acts were done in this
present day and age people like Greg would rightly attribute them to Satan. Go figure.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the
people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman
caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and
said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.
Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a
trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with
his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he
straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is
without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time,
the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the
woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked
her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared.
“Go now and leave your life of sin.”
John 8 |
