I would like to share a few things on top of what GiGi has already shared with you but if you can please share why, you say this section is often misunderstood, mistaught, misquoted, and misapplied, that would help in knowing where you're coming from. Can you please share your understanding of John 8:1-11 and some of the misunderstandings and false teachings you have discovered?
Thank you so much ahead of time, and blessings to you in Christ!
Reading John 8:1-11 we read of how the religious leaders and other Jews drug out a woman who was engaged in adultery into the street to stone her as the Mosaic law requires.
However, this day, this woman met the one and only person who could bring her salvation and forgiveness. Jesus chose not to condemn her. That day she encountered grace upon grace from the giver of grace! We don't know what happened to this woman thereafter, but because of our Lord's words to her, I do think that she was one of lost sheep of Israel who was among Jesus' sheep. One who Jesus came to save.
He knew exactly what she was doing with the man before she was drug out as well as how she lived all of her days prior to that day. He knew her through and through and was merciful to her. He told her to go and sin no more. Perhaps these words to her were the divine words that freed her from the sin that bound her. Perhaps she became one of the woman who followed Jesus from then on out. I hope so. But we will not know this side of heaven.
For us who believe, we need to be merciful to others also. We need to offer the grace of the gospel to those who are actively sinning before us and refrain from judging them harshly. Should they respond to the gospel offer, then praise be the Lord! We need to be humble in such circumstances and approachable to such people who are bound in sin as we once were.
Anyway, these are my thoughts on this passage. I am not sure how you wish this discussion to go, but I can say "This is a starting point."
I would like to share a few things on top of what GiGi has already shared with you but if you can please share why, you say this section is often misunderstood, mistaught, misquoted, and misapplied, that would help in knowing where you're coming from. Can you please share your understanding of John 8:1-11 and some of the misunderstandings and false teachings you have discovered?
Thank you so much ahead of time, and blessings to you in Christ!
Reading John 8:1-11 we read of how the religious leaders and other Jews drug out a woman who was engaged in adultery into the street to stone her as the Mosaic law requires.
However, this day, this woman met the one and only person who could bring her salvation and forgiveness. Jesus chose not to condemn her. That day she encountered grace upon grace from the giver of grace! We don't know what happened to this woman thereafter, but because of our Lord's words to her, I do think that she was one of lost sheep of Israel who was among Jesus' sheep. One who Jesus came to save.
He knew exactly what she was doing with the man before she was drug out as well as how she lived all of her days prior to that day. He knew her through and through and was merciful to her. He told her to go and sin no more. Perhaps these words to her were the divine words that freed her from the sin that bound her. Perhaps she became one of the woman who followed Jesus from then on out. I hope so. But we will not know this side of heaven.
For us who believe, we need to be merciful to others also. We need to offer the grace of the gospel to those who are actively sinning before us and refrain from judging them harshly. Should they respond to the gospel offer, then praise be the Lord! We need to be humble in such circumstances and approachable to such people who are bound in sin as we once were.
Anyway, these are my thoughts on this passage. I am not sure how you wish this discussion to go, but I can say "This is a starting point."
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