How come Jesus didn't say DONT EVER, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES THROW STONES AT PEOPLE?

Question

He said let he who is without sin cast the first stone.


I'm jsut asking, why not say DONT EVER DO IT EVER, EVER


I know the stuff about the pharises and they were trying to trick him and all that,

but screw all that, if he was God couldn't he have said, forget all that I am god and I'm saying the old laws are bad

Answer 1

A very, very good question. Also, why didn't he say "It's not OK to roast people alive, or torture them with red hot pokers, or imprison them for not believing in me, or any of that nasty stuff"?

As Robert Green Ingersoll said, much better than I possibly could:

"If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before him like a panorama moved the history yet to be. He knew how his words would be interpreted. He knew what crimes, what horrors, what infamies, would be committed in his name. He knew that the hungry flames of persecution would climb around the limbs of countless martyrs. He knew that thousands and thousands of brave men and women. would languish in dungeons in darkness, filled with pain. He knew that the church would invent and use instruments of torture; that his followers would appeal to whip and *****, to chain and rack. He saw what creeds would spring like poisonous fungi from every text. He saw the ignorant sects waging war against each other. He saw thousands of men, under the orders of priests, building prisons for their fellow-men. He saw thousands of scaffolds dripping with the best and bravest blood. He saw his followers using the instruments of pain. He heard the groans -- saw the faces white with agony. He heard the shrieks and sobs and cries of all the moaning, martyred multitudes. He knew that commentaries would be written on his words with swords, to be read by the light of ******. He knew that the Inquisition would be born of the teachings attributed to him."


"He saw the interpolations and falsehoods that hypocrisy would write and tell. He saw all wars that would be waged, and knew that above these fields of death, these dungeons, these rackings, these burnings, these executions, for a thousand years would float the dripping banner of the cross."


"He knew that hypocrisy would be robed and crowned -- that cruelty and credulity would rule the world; knew that liberty would perish from the earth; knew that popes and kings in his name would enslave the souls and bodies of men; knew that they would persecute and destroy the discoverers, thinkers and inventors; knew that his church would extinguish reason's holy light and leave the world without a star."


"He saw his disciples extinguishing the eyes of men, flaying them alive, cutting out their tongues, searching for all the nerves of pain."


"He knew that in his name his followers would trade in human flesh; that cradles would be robbed and women's breasts unbabed for gold."


"And yet he died with voiceless lips."


"Why did he fail to speak? Why did he not. tell his disciples, and through them the world: 'You shall not burn, imprison and torture in my name. You shall not persecute your fellowmen.'"


"Why did he not plainly say: I am the Son of God,' or, 'I am God?' Why did he not explain the Trinity? Why did he not tell the mode of baptism that was pleasing to him? Why did he not write a creed? Why did he not break the chains of slaves? Why did he not say that the Old Testament was or was not the inspired word of God? Why did he not write the New Testament himself? Why did he leave his words to ignorance, hypocrisy and chance? Why did he not say something positive, definite and satisfactory about another world? Why did he not, turn the tear-stained hope of heaven into the glad knowledge of another life? Why did he not tell us something of the rights of man, of the liberty of hand and brain?"


"Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?"


"I" will tell you why. He was a man, and did not know."

Answer 2

Because Jewish law called for throwing stones at prostitutes. Jesus told them that he who is without sin cast the first stone. Jesus knew that no human was without sin and so by saying that he basically said dont do it ever,

Answer 3

haha He is the only one without sin. So yeah thats pretty much what He said. He just said it in a nicer way. He was using a good method of trying to convict people of their own faults and sins for He desires for all men to come to Him and be saved. Just to say no more stoneing people would be just that, but to say He who is without sin cast the first stone. Made them look inside themselves and see that they all had sin, and that is the first step in salvation. You have to realize that you are a sinner. He got them to do that. Jesus is more concerned with our souls, because they are eternal. Our bodies are just temporary, but the message was clear no more stoning.

Answer 4

Because He said "He who is without sin, may they cast the first stone".
People were stoned back then for their sins. It was a way of their laws. But Jesus was there to show them that He was there to pay for their sins with His life.

Answer 5

Perhaps he was in his own time, speaking to the people of that time: it wasn't about whether to throw stones or dirt clods; it was about putting someone to death (by stoning them) for committing a sin (adultery). His point was, "If anyone here is so pure that they have never sinned, that person should be the first one to throw a stone (to start the holy killing). It seems to have worked then since supposedly everyone walked away, and it appears to be valid today as a reminder not to be too quick to condemn other people for their failings.

Answer 6

Because he is wise! If he have say don't throw stones? Would they have obey? He say, love the other in the same way you love yourself, do we do it?
Instead people have tried for century to convert people using the force, and that is a NO NO.
He made a point, Jesus never obliged no one to make nothing, that is free will. You must choose your destiny.
As they choose not to throw the stone!

Answer 7

First of all, the Bible was translated into English, so the exact translation will never be understood by those who speak only English. Second of all, since I see you post many anti-Christian questions, I think your purpose for posting such a question is to challenge Christians. Good luck with that! Christians will pray for your soul and for you to actually "hear" the Word some day and not just hear "words".

Answer 8

Because that was the law of the land. He says we are to abide by the laws of the land. If stoning is law its a law. I that wars in the bible days that God was all up in the mix of .

Answer 9

Because Jesus was also a teacher and alot of times he would answer people with a question to make them think a little on their own.

Answer 10

Jesus said that because he is the only one without sin. so he did say to us to never do it.