There is a chasm that separates the Old Testament and the New Testament…God outside of man and God within man. Without the sacrifice of the Cross and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit man made many of his own decisions regarding sin and punishment. God’s mercy, grace and love for His creation came forth in the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. No longer would man be able to judge according to the world but man would be guided by the very heart of God placed in mankind. Religions without Jesus Christ as the Godhead bear little resemblance to each other. God never condones sin but always offers hope through forgiveness and change.
Sin no more implies that Jesus forgave her. He did not condemn her, but neither did He condone her sin.
chasm |ˈkazəm|
noun
- a profound difference between people, viewpoints, feelings
John 8:7
7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”
John 8:11
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 17:7
2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
Romans 2:1
56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.
Luke 9:56
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:17
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
John 5:14
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