4,000 years before that, on Mount Sinai, a similar account took place where God also wrote with His finger on stone tablets.

The Pharisees must have seen the parallel.

The difference however was that back then, the dispensation was the Mosaic Law, and anyone who committed adultery was to be stoned to death.

This time around, that same God was about to uncover a new dispensation, and the woman caught in adultery was not condemned.

Your brother, 73s

And more than anything else, that’s your “beauty”, SPKenny. To allow conversations (of course, that do not hit below the belt) to go back and forth, and being open minded to views of other’s.

And not like “some people” who delete other ppl’s comment, just because,….the blogger wants to look good/save his face, or because the comments are not approved or goes against the blogger’s personal views.

Hindsight, I did not have to be defensive on behalf of SPKenny, he is big enough to handle other ppl’s counter claims.

Faith and belief systems are very personal and there seems to be no reason for anybody to take umbrage or offense in your interpretation of reality, since we can neither prove or disprove your belief systems.

Our immature enthusiasms and momentary altruism can sometimes transform into rabid intolerance when we meet the wonders of God’s universe – the unique human being who disagree or is antagonistic with our own faith. Can we accept them as God’s children, with as much right as us to make up their own minds and lead their lives according to their belief systems (assuming that we all live within a social-civil structure of “universal” human rights).

As an enlightened Rabbi once remarked _ God only gave us 2 edicts – Love thy God with all your being and 2) Love your neighbor like yourself. The rest of the Bible is mere commentary if Christians cannot abide by these 2 simple tenets, is there any point in being a Biblical scholar or conversant?

My hope is you will continue to share the light of your lamps with us, so that we shed more light on the way for all.

Bravo, keep up your frank discourse. My thanks for sharing.

Shalom brother.

At the end of the day, to God, (in my honest opinion) it only matters, what your heart is and where your heart is.

This is exactly why I cant stand most my so called ‘nose-in-the- air’ ‘theologically trained’ counterparts – they think they have the right to hold 10 thousand knives, and dissect every statement, thought and idea any person has. It is as if they honestly think they are God’s mouth-pieces.

Dont they realize that they themselves come off to us like the very same Pharisees that they condemn???

DO these same group of people actually think that God is going to say “Yah, man, your theology (or exegesis…Who Cares??) on Jonah 2:10 was spot on, and you managed to figure out that it was written by the writer J in the superlative past present Aramaic tense – so now, welcome to Heaven!!”

I think our God is much much bigger than all that!

Sorry if I have been rude, Kenny, on your blog – but I just had to say it, and get it off my chest.