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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole passage from John:

2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.Now what do you say?” 6They 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. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “[b]Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.[/b]” 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9At 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. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? [b]Has no one condemned you?”
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11“No one, sir,” she said.

“[b]Then neither do I condemn you,”[/b]Jesus declared. [b]“Go now and leave your life of sin.[/b]”

Not one of us can judge whether our brothers or sisters are sinful, for we are all sinners.
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Well said. And plenty ironic that PP--who clearly considers themselves a "real" Christian--has managed to not only miss the point of the passage entirely, but come away with the *exact* opposite lesson from its intended meaning.[/quote]

Yes, Jesus told the whore to go and sin no more.  What does that mean? Stop being a whore. Stop sinning. Stop doing it. Stop stop stop it. Such behavior is destructive to oneself and society. The penalty for adultery back then was to be condemned to death by having your head and body broken to pieces by rocks and stones thrown at you.

Jesus gave her a 2nd chance, just as Jesus gives all sinners a 2nd chance. Does this mean when we see homosexuals living contrary to what God has taught in the Bible that we should zip our mouths and say nothing?  Did Jesus say nothing? No, he told her and all sinners:  You are sinning. You are doing wrong. STOP IT

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She wasn't a whore. She was an adulteress.[/quote]

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