"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" - opinions?

Answer 1

Apparently unless you're a Christian.

Answer 2

God's severe punishments are applicable only after
high majority of population of a society minimize the needs of people to commit crimes.

For example

1. Eliminate hunger. People must give food to those who don't have. So no one steals for eating.
2. Marry girls to young men and help them to start married life so they don't commit fornication.
3. Marry widows so they don't have to sell sex to survive.
4. Enforce laws that discourage facilities for fornication. Like some Muslim countries require a marriage certificate for a couple to rent room in a hotel.
5. Provide jobs and give charity so poor people don't have to rob others or steal.

After providing all these, if some one commits fornication then only God's Laws should be applied.

It will be wrong of a Muslim Judge to cut hands of a servant who is fired, no one hires him, no one gives him charity and finally he has no alternative but to steal bread from bakery.

This is what
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
means.

Jewish Priests were letting the rich go w/o punishment and were enforcing the God's Law on a female fornicator who had no choice but to sell herself to survive. Over all society of full of wrong doings when God sent Jesus.

Jesus saved a woman from getting stoned to death by using his wisdom and she became the most devoted believer in Jesus.

Answer 3

The phrase was uttered by Jesus because the Pharisees were attempting to trap Jesus. They brought Him a woman in adultry, and asked Him his opinion, whether they should stone her or not. Adultry was a crime punishible by death. If Jesus said 'No, don't stone her', then the Pharisees could accuse Him of going against the law and have Him arrested. If he said 'Stone her', He would lose the faithfulness of His followers who opposed this kind of practice. By saying 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone at her', He exposed the Pharisees's hypocrisy, and kept within the bounds of the law. The genius of Jesus still doesn't cease to amaze me.

Answer 4

I think this is a reference to an older tradition. The execution was begun by the people who accused the condemned person. They would throw the first stone and the rest of the community would then continue it.
So people, I think it means that all of us are in need of some mercy and if we want some before God, we had better show some to our fellow accused.

Answer 5

When it comes to stoning people to death, I quite agree. And, since no one is without sin, I guess that pretty much settles that.

In more general terms, I think it's primarily a warning against setting yourself up as the Standard of All That Is Good and then judging others around you. Arrogance is a sin, too.

Answer 6

Im a poor sinner Id better not answer.I hadnot sinned till I threw a stone through the greenhouse window.

Answer 7

That means we can't drag people in the street to stone them.

We are still required to state biblical facts, such as eternal hell exists, and the way to avoid going there is to believe in this life that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again.

Answer 8

Not even Yeshua could've stoned her, because in another life he was not without error, or knowledge not lived.

Will we all be without sin? eventually we will be without it, but no one is without it, since we come into life strengthened or weakened by the expression of past lives. All have sinned in some life (lives)...

Answer 9

Wonderful, wonderful words. :) Any of us who judges another should take a look at themselves before they do. I believe the Christian Bible says "why do you wory about the speck in your brothers eye, yet do not know of the plank in your own eye." (Don't think that's word for word, but that's the gist of it.)

I know that I'm guilty of this and try like heck to stop. I've gotten better over the years, but still am quick to judge sometimes. I just keep working on it.

Good journeys

Answer 10

It's about being judgmental. Christians are not supposed to be judgmental of others. We are not supposed to hold others pasts against them. This doesn't mean that we do not judge someones actions. We have to. The Bible says to stay away from evil and people who do evil things. We can't do that without being able to judge what is evil. We just can't hold that against them. I'm not saying that because we forgive people for their actions that they shouldn't suffer the consequences of their actions, you reap what you sew, we just forgive them for doing whatever it is that they did.

Answer 11

I agree, so I keep the stones out of it.

Intellectual discussion is a purely different situation.

I do not discuss to harm another, only to help them.