Are we worthy of judging others in their faults? Because we check off certain religious boxes does that make us better than them? Are we allowed to be the accuser, judge, and hurry all on our own?
There are many examples of our ability to judge but Jesus sets the clearest example in John 8 when the women accused of adultery is thrown in front of Jesus exposed and compromised.
The crowd is eager to hear Jesus’ response to her because of two reasons to trap him in contradiction or to have the moral authority of Jesus to kill her via stoning. But we see that Jesus’ answer is much different than the crowd expected.
The question is presented to Jesus that under the law because she is caught in adultery that they can stone her, what is his response? Jesus throughout his ministry has spoken that God is the ultimate judge. But Jesus thought it not equal with God but drained his power. Jesus is the example for man did this.
He bent down quietly and began to write in the sand, not with anger, aggression, or frustration but with understanding. His only words to the crowd “he who is without sin cast the first stone”. He continued to write and one by one the crowd left, leaving the women and Jesus alone. This woman, bare, vulnerable, traumatized and scarred from the earlier events, afraid of the damnation she believed Jesus would proclaim to her received the gentlest compassion. Jesus simply asked her ‘women where are they that accuse you has no one condemned you’? She replied ‘no one’ and the most powerful statement in this moment ‘neither will I, go and sin no more’.
Are we worthy of judging others in their faults? No we are not because we have our own faults. Because we check off certain religious boxes does that make us better than them? No those who accused her are in the wrong just as much as she was. Are we allowed to be the accuser, judge, and hurry all on our own? No we are not that is for God alone to decide.
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