The Law vs Grace in God, With Skin On
- Dec. 6, 2019, 1:03 p.m.
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In biblical times, adultery was punishable by death. That was the law. And yet David not only commits adultery, but he also has Bathsheba’s husband killed. Where is the justice here? David should have been stoned to death! Just like the woman who was brought to Jesus whom they found in the very act of adultery. But then I always wondered, Why bring the woman, what about the man?
And then there was Grace. The dispensation ushered in by the resurrection of Jesus Christ and continues today. Which begs me to ask, is that being fair to those who lived before that time? It also makes me glad I didn’t live back then. Let’s just say, I would have been stoned. Not for adultery, but for breaking some of the other laws.
I think sometimes we use Grace as a crutch or excuse to do what we know is wrong. After all, it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, especially when we know permission would not be granted. Can those who lived before Grace cry foul? How unlucky to have been born 100 years before Christ.
crystal butterfly ⋅ December 06, 2019
And a man could just declare the woman committed adultery but a woman had to have 3 witnesses willing to say something to say she was raped. But in most cases even today a woman is thought less of if she has an affair and it reflects on her children. But a man seems to get by with it and the children as not also condemned. There is still a huge double standard.
Douglas Kinney crystal butterfly ⋅ December 07, 2019
Oh, you will get no argument from me on the double standard. Ever since the beginning of time, it has been that way. I am truly a monogamous person but I do see that back then they could have more than one wife even though God warned against it.