Writing in the sand

MF Blume (mfblume@ns.sympatico.ca)
Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:02:02 -0800


Thomas Griffin wrote:

>         I would have to agree that it isn't essential to know what it
>         is or God surely would have had it written in the Book.
> 
>         BUT, if I were guessing :) then I would have to say that it
>         was probably a listing of sins that had been committed and as
>         each man looked at it he would know exactly which ones he had
>         committed.  It is like in a church service nowadays and God
>         prompts the man of God preaching the word to mention certain
>         circumstances or sins.  Then these glow in the mind of the
>         sinner who has committed them.  Otherwise, any of those men
>         could have claimed to have no sin, because of the fact that
>         they didn't believe in the true power of the messiah.
> 
>         Thomas.

One guy mentioned that Jesus possibly wrote and quoted the Levitical
law saying that BOTH the man and woman must be brought forward.  And the
Pharisees ran off because they did not have the man.  Maybe a Pharisee
was the man in order to set her up?????

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> Thomas J. Griffin III                   Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student
> email -> griffin @mtu.edu                       Assistant C.A.E.L. Manager
> web   -> www.me.mtu.edu/~griffin                 Aspiring Minister of God

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In Christ,
Mike Blume
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