How many atheists do you think have read this verse?

Question

John 8:7 He without sin cast first stone.

Answer 1

We atheists love that verse... we point it out to self-rightous christians all the time!

Answer 2

Thanks for the best laugh all day. I can’t believe how many atheists think they know the Bible better than Christians. Yes, some may have read every word--not arguing that point--but how much did they comprehend?

How do you understand spiritual things without the guidance of God’s Holy Spirit?

My guess is that the number of atheists who have ever known The Holy Spirit is zero. If any had ever once felt the power of God’s love, I can not believe they would have become an atheist.

So knowing the Bible without knowing God’s Spirit is meaningless. I could muddle through a book written in French but it would have very little meaning to me because I do not speak French.

The atheist reading the Bible for Spiritual meaning is precisely the same as reading a book written in a foreign language.

Answer 3

Nobody has any way of knowing how many read what. I believe that most Atheists are up on many religious writings. After all, most of the high IQs are Atheists.
Why did you mention the passage about casting stones ? Atheists don't fit that at all.

Answer 4

Most of them. How many Christians do you think have read it? Because they most definately don't listen to it since they seem to think they have the right to judge anyone and hurt their human rights, just because they don't like what the other person is doing.

Answer 5

dont know bout atheists but bout 700 (give or take) MO Syniod Lutherans heard it last sunday. that was the sermon...and boy did Pastor S deliver a good 1. you have 2 read the whole verse though. you can't just pick and choose stuff.

that chapter was about the pharasies trying to trap Jesus (yet again). they brought an adultress (a woman who had sex with some one other than her husband) to Him and told him that according to "the Law Moses commanded" women like her to be stone. Jesus just listened as the questioned him what to do with her. Luther points out that "This sin cannot be committed alone so the question arises as to why only one offender was brought. The incident was staged to trap Jesus, and provision had been made for the man to escape. The woman's accusers must have been especially eager to humiliate her, since they could have kept her in private custody." which kinda makes it seem like they didnt even care what happened to the woman, they just wanted Jesus to brake the law. Since the Jewish law required an adultress to be stoned and the Roman law forbade Jews to carry out death sentences. again Luther points out that "They altered the law a little. The manner of execution was not prescribed unless the woman was a betrothed virgin (Dt 22:23-24). And the law required the execution of both parties (Lev 20:10; Dt 22:22), not just the woman. The Romans did not allow the Jews to carry out death sentences (John 18:31), so if Jesus had said to stone her, he could have been in conflict with the Romans. If he had said not to stone her, he could have been accused of being unsupportive of the law." which again proves that the phariseis only cared about trapping Jesus, not about the woman's saftey. after they had questioned Him a bit longer He "straightened up and said to them, 'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.'" needless to say they all had to leave because none of them was with out sin except for Jesus himself. "At this, thouse who heard begun to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?' 'No one, sir,' she said. 'Then neither do I condemn you,' Jesus declared. 'Go now and leave your life of sin.' Luther yet again points out "Jesus' answer disarmed them. Since he spoke of throwing a stone, he could not be accused of failure to uphold the law. But the qualification for throwing it prevented anyone from acting. 'Without sin' The phrase is quite general and means 'without any sin,' not 'without this sin.' " Because there was no one left to accuse her Jesus did not condone what the woman had done and told her to "leave her life of sin"

see? its in a whole new light once you read the whole story. its basicly saying "who are we to see someone else's sin we comit them every second of the day?"

like it says in Matthew 7:1-5
"'Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye an dpay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.'"

Answer 6

If you are without sin, why would you wish to tarnish this purity by casting a stone?

Answer 7

I have.

I imagine that almost all atheists have. The ones in the United States probably studied it when they were Christians.

Answer 8

I think a lot of atheists admire Jesus. Some atheists even go to church :) (Seriously, some members of my church are atheists.) Good ideas stand on their own merit.

If we don't appreciate atheist fundamentalists like Sam Harris who insist on converting everybody to their religion, how can we bash atheism? Dogmatism sucks, no matter what doctrine it's pushing.

Answer 9

probably the same amount as christians who've read that verse. You know, most atheists have read the entire bible and thats WHY they are atheists.

Answer 10

None. The passage does not appear in the form you have shown in any English translation I am aware of.

Answer 11

Wow, I've never heard that verse before...not. I think it may surprise you - but many atheists know more about the bible than Christians do.