Page 414 … Writing in the dust
You then reference John 8:11 to say that, “[Jesus] told the woman caught in adultery to ‘Go and sin no more.’” … Of course he told her that, my Friend, and yet he most certainly did not add, “or else I am going to start condemning you thereafter”!!! … To say otherwise (as you are saying) is flat out ridiculous and indeed a true slap in Jesus’ face. Again my dear (as if I haven’t explained this more than enough already), Jesus came to reform the dysfunctional condemnatory tone of the passive-aggressive Old Testament laws (see Lucy #278 hereafter) … He came to provide The Way – a manner of being that judged no one (Matthew 7:1-5), a way of living that openly Loved even one’s enemies (Matthew 5:40-48), and a foundation for behaving that forgave everyone completely over & over & over again (Matthew 18:21-22) … Indeed, condemnation of any kind plays NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in the Life & the Truth & the Way of Jesus Christ!!!
P.S. Interestingly enough, in the passage in question (John 8:1-12) Jesus is seen writing on the ground on the Sabbath, an act that showed the hypocritical scribes & Pharisees nearby (lusting for the “justifiable” death of the sinning adulteress) that he knew the Law better than they did (as according to the oral Law of the time it was forbidden to write on the Sabbath – see Mishneh Torah, Shabbos 11:9–17 & 23:12–19) – and that he had found a way around that prohibition – a way to reform that Law; indeed, that he was a living embodiment of that very reform – that he was a living representative of that Way!
P.P.S. Indeed, Jeremiah 17:13 makes this passage even more poignant (“Those who stop following the LORD will be like names written in the dust”), transforming Jesus’ act of writing on the ground into an expose of the scribes & Pharisees in attendance; showing those same condemners that their open judgment of another’s sins (much like your judgment of the supposed sins of homosexuals in this thread) made them hypocrites, and thus actually abandoners of the Loving Will of God.
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