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Laurence Cawley BBC News The Jedi and the Bishop: two men from Essex, two religious outlooks

John Pavlovitz 6 Reasons Stone-Throwing Christians May Need To Retire “Go And Sin No More”

Andrew Lightbown Secular utilitarianism 1 – Agape 0; the problems with Baber’s scheme

Christopher Howse The Telegraph Mozarabic chant in deepest Suffolk

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Father Ron Smith
Father Ron Smith
9 years ago

John Pavlovits is a pastor after my own heart – one who sees Jesus as Shepherd rather than Judge – in His advice to the woman ‘caught in adultery’.

It may well be that his warning: “Go, and sin no more” would have been advice that her further indulgence in this collusion with adulterous men would only end up in further death-threats from the moral establishment – her self-appointed tribunal.

Jesus was concerned for her safety and well-being – rather than threatening her with Hell-fire!

JCF
JCF
9 years ago

The one telling the “caught in adultery” woman to sin no more was JESUS, not some other human (hypocritical) sinner. If we don’t have Jesus’s omniscience—not to mention his all-loving heart!—we shouldn’t put ourselves in a position of here’s-looking-down-at-you moral superiority. “Go and Sin No More”? Only if said into a MIRROR!

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