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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1:51, you miss the key point about the story about Jesus and the adulteress. Nobody disputes that the Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus--it's explicitly in the John 8 passage to which you referred.

The story is told because of the lesson/moral it conveys: Jesus chose the course that set her free. He could have let them stone her, but he didn't. Why!

Throughout his time on earth, Jesus preached that we are all sinners and that he brought God's forgiveness to us.  His message to the bystanders, that only the sinless can cast stones, is consistent with his larger message, throughout the gospels, that we're all sinners, and that God is the ultimate judge. The passage you cite has the accusers leaving after he calls for a blameless man to through the first stone.[/quote]

Jesus was the Prophet who was indeed the most compassionate but the law that the first to cast the stone must be sinless is not Jesus' moral lesson in that story, it WAS THE LAW AT THE TIME!! So no need to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, that the lesson was built into law means the community already recognized the value of it! And yet if Christians knew that, why did this story get exploited to make it look like that was Jesus' lesson? Now if you are saying Jesus was reminding us of it again, okay.  But even in Jesus' time women were indeed stoned providing all the conditions of the law were met.

The compassion toward women was also exhibited by the Prophet Muhammad. The story you cited shows the prophet did not want the woman to be subjected to punishment as evidenced by the fact HE REPEATEDLY TURNED HER AWAY and LEFT IT IN HER DISCRETION TO RETURN.

Besides, the Quran does not ever command stoning for adultery. You will never find such a passage. 
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