You have a severely warped perspective on JC going on here. Bes you raised by abusive types what constantly made sure you knew how "rotten" you bes but rarely offered any viable solutions other than the generic black box of stop being?
This one's perception of JC as gleaned from the Gospels bes far far different. It sees Him spending TONS of time making sure ppls knew HE bes the solution to EVERYTHING -- their pain, their loneliness, their sickness, their confusion, their corruption, their desperate need for love & forgiveness -- and very little time addressing sin, most of that spent precisely on those who tended to believe they had none. Since it does not fall into that category it does not perceive Him as one what spent all His time haranguing over what sinners everyone bes. How anyone could fail to see the stark difference between JC and most hellfire brimstone doomspoon falsely-so-called "preachers" (dunno what they bes preaching but it ain't GOOD news...) bes beyond this one's comprehends. It bes like comparing Gandhi with Hitler.
Moriah,
It appears that you have misunderstood my post or maybe I'm misunderstanding yours, so let me try to make mine clearer in case that is where the problem is.
John 8:3-11
3And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9And they which heard it,
being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her,
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
As we see in the scriptures Jesus said whoever was without sin should cast the first stone. So those who were accusing her, we see, were all convicted by their own conscience, and from the eldest to the last left till it was just Jesus and the woman.
[QUOTE-savedandhappy1] Looking at the whole story He plainly was showing how everyone is a sinner, then He showed how He didn't come to condemn but save. All those points are very important, just like the last point He made, which was go and sin no more.[/quote]
Now looking at what I said and the scriptures we see that He did point out to everyone there that they to had sinned as we see in the areas bolded above. Then what did I say? I said how He showed that He didn't come to condemn but to save.
If we don't know that we need saved from something then why would we need or want a Saviour? To me these scriptures show many things one being the whole salvation process.
We see how we have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.(Romans 3:23)
Then we see how Jesus came not to condemn the world but that the whole world could be saved.(John 3:16)
The last thing we see is that after we have realized our need for salvation and that Jesus came so we can receive that salvation, that we are to go and sin no more.(Romans 6:1-10)
I love it when you can be sure of a scripture because when you take the Bible as a whole there isn't any contradiction.
I am not sure why you would think that my answer had anything to do with me being abused or me putting others down because of this.
What I was trying to show, as I said above, everyone has sinned, everyone needs a Saviour/Jesus, and that after we receive His salvation we are to go and sin no more. I hope that helps.
