Julio

"This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not." John 8:6.

Nothing inspired by the holy ghost, for sure; otherwise it would have been inserted in the tale.
And then the church was told about this incident only 60 years after Pentecost, through a theological John!
It smells a rat!
We know the so-called “pericope of the adulterous woman” is a forgery, don’t we know?
Therefore: Did Jesus write on the sand or not?
If so, was it inspired scripture?
The "Sacred College of Twelve" was present at the writing!
Did any consider it inspired?
No.
Does this incident DISCREDIT the gospel?

Iskander

Hi, Julio

I find it difficult to understand your criticism of this passage.

Is it inspired? It gives very good advice on what not to do to an adulteress and it is very courageous of Jesus to say what he said. He spoke against the Law of Moses.

He was pretending to write on the sand to finish the exchange in an appropriate manner, but when requested to defend his position or join the stone throwers Jesus defied the cruel law and won the battle.

Was it inserted? Why should that matter once is part of our history?

Did men/ women write it? Yes of course, but what men/women write, do, create etc. is never an illusion. Sometimes what we do is no good, but in every instance is a reality that affects our lives.

The life of Jesus is very interesting and this passage is super dooper!

Minimalist

Yes, because it does not appear in our earliest versions.

It doesn't matter to me. Should it matter to those who think this nonsense is real? It ought to but believers are a strange lot.

Iskander

Inserted to correct a mistake.

Why should believers feel the need to question what is good? They have more sense than that.

I am sure Jesus said a lot more than what has found its way into the Gospels, I am looking forward to further insertions to correct past failings—provided the insertions improve the message.

Larkin31

"Kilroy was here"

storytime

:lol:


as all were adulterer's maybe he wrote "judge not unless ye be innocent of the crime". (judge not lest ye be judged likewise)

Julio

It is strange, is it not, that Jesus was contradicting and violating a law his holy father in heaven gave to Israel!
The son rephrasing the father?
The Law came from Jehovah, and here comes Jesus amending it according to him.
Weird.
Why would his holy father not find a BETTER way to circumvent the original problem?
It proves the Law of Moses was only Moses' cruelty!

aa5874

Or perhaps Marcion was right. Jesus was not from the God of the Jews but the son of another Greater God hence Jesus was able to circumvent the Laws of Moses.

Doug Shaver

If nothing else does, then no, it does not.

motorhead

"Satan Sucks!"