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• Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:11 PM

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  The story is even more interesting if you consider that It was a trap.

  The trap is this: under the Roman occupation, the power of capital punishment was reserved by the Romans for themselves. All capital cases had to be referred to the Roman authorities and the sentence had to be approved before it could be carried out. This is why the Pharisees later brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate to be crucified, instead of killing him themselves. So Jesus’ enemies figured they could trap Him in a dilemma by presenting Him with a clear-cut case where the Jewish Law demanded the death penalty by public stoning. If Jesus deferred to the Romans, He discredited Himself as a Teacher of the Law. If He condoned the stoning, the Romans would consider Him an insurrectionist and put Him to death. Either way, they thought, He couldn’t win. He would either lose His credibility or His life; either way, He would be silenced.

  If the story is true, he played the right hand.

  You see a big problem is, There was more to Jesus than the nice soft side. He also condemned entire villages to fates worst than Sodom, for not liking his preaching. And in the end the NT,leaves us with the worst of inheritances. It creates the single most horrific and sadistic idea to come from the Abrahamic religions (although, no doubt taken from the Zorastarians)...Eternal damnation in Hell.

  Sorry if that took too much magic out of the story.

  —jamiso Read jamiso's other letters
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