I do not believe that there is a word used in the history of people to defend a beloved brother surrounded by shameless accusations or condemned by his church for committing a heinous crime, crowding out the word of Jesus: \u201cHe who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first\u201d (John 8:7). You do know the context of the word. Scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus with a woman caught in the act of adultery. They presented what their law said in this situation. Then they asked Him about His opinion regarding the woman. The Word was His answer. Is it permissible to arm oneself with the Word to defend an accused or a condemned brother? I will not puzzle you with my answer, but, to keep the right to use the Word, I suggest that we acknowledge three things. 1- That Jesus, by speaking His Word, did not intend to lessen the severity of the woman's sin. 2- That he did not seek to revenge Himself upon His interrogators (God forbid!). 3- That He sees no pure love greater than encouraging people to repent. If we keep these conditions, we can do as we please\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I do not believe that there is a word used in the history of people to defend a beloved brother surrounded by shameless accusations or condemned by his church for committing a heinous crime, crowding out the word of Jesus: \u201cHe who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first\u201d ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1528,1240,1529,1252,413],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-adultery","tag-forgiveness","tag-judgment","tag-orthodox-christianity","tag-repentance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}