When confronted with a moral failure, our instinct is to minimize or to blame-shift. Yes, we shouldn’t have saidthis,but it only happened because you saidthat.No, we haven’t quite gotten around to fixing the car like we promised, but that’s becauseyoukeep using it every Saturday. A...
Related to damaging belief 3, we must consider: What about the billions of people who never heard the name of Jesus Christ—the only name by which we must be saved? As the apostle Peter said about the name of Jesus Christ: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other...
When a woman is caught in adultery, He steps in and across to “Jackie-Chan” the religious haters and thrust a force field over her, disarming bigoted stones. Nobody rants against faith-phonies and legalism-pushers like Jesus. Nobody spits out religious to-do steps, sin-management, and ...
3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to ...
and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
The woman had been caught in adultery. The Pharisees asked Jesus if they should stone her but Jesus saw her worth, that she was more than an adulteress. This woman was created in God’s likeness. First, he protects her from the stoning and then, more importantly, forgives her of her ...
“And as [Jesus] was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “…You know the commandments: Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear ...
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.New Living TranslationJesus told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. I am not here...
“And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery”(Matthew 19:9). In the book of Matthew, Jesus said a man could put away his wife if one factor– fornication–is involved. In Mark and Luke he ...
“If we look at Christ, for instance, I always say one of the greatest feminists is Christ and I’ll cite examples from the Bible. The first one is the woman caught indulging in adultery,” she added. “According to Jewish law, that woman should have been stoned but Jesus said let an...