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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (112622)	1/14/2008 3:44:57 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Jesus was being set up. The punishment was stoning to death by religious standards. The man and the woman would normally both be stoned. To quell tribal disputes, the Roman government had passed a law forbidding religious authorities to act on their own in criminal matters like this. Jews weren't happy about it and that put Jesus as a Rabbi in a bind. If he authorised the carrying out of the religious law he would be breaking Roman law, if he refused to the Jews in the throng would declare him a fraud and a heretic. The accuser was almost for sure the man involved in the adulterous act who had gossiped/bragged about it. In order for Jesus to be held responsible as a judge over the matter the accuser would have to step forward to cast the first stone, but if he did, the accuser would be condemning himself to being stoned. The others in the mob were probably friends and relatives of the accuser, who didn't want to see that happen. Clever, Huh? Then of course there is the divine intervention aspect.