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Start reading in Exodus somewhere, and you will
see the start of a really long list of
commandments and prohibitions that will cover
almost every aspect of life.
We call it "The
Law". Some also call it simply
"Moses", as Moses is widely seen as the
writer of the first five books of the Bible.
This law was given to the children of Israel by
Moses, when they were in the desert traveling from Egypt to the promised land. It contained a
summary in the form of what we know as "The
Ten Commandments", but the whole of the law
is recorded in four books: Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy.
The law is really very strickt. It contains a
lot of rules concerning all kinds of things and
even the least of all violations could lead to
a -painful- death penalty.
Many people will read The Law and shake their
heads in unbelief: "who can keep up with the
rules in this law?", they ask themselves. Not
without reason, because the Law says that if
you violate one point, you are a violator of the
whole law!
Just an example: if people would
have sex without being bound in Holy Marriage, they would have to be
stoned to death because of adultery or
fornication.
Abut 2000 years ago, a Man walked on the face
of the planet. He was not just a man, though. He
was born of a virgin and He was JAH Himself: the
Creator coming in human form.
His Name was Yesus Kristos, Yeshouah Mashiach,
Jesus Christ.
He came to "fulfill the law", as the
New Testament explains. He was there, to actually
do what was written in the Law. He was there, to
do what nobody else could do before or after
Him.
Just browse a little bit through the law, my
dear reader, and ask yourself: "how many
violations have I already done in my
life?"...
That's not the question people were asking when
Yesus was walking among them, though. They would
browse through the law to see what the other one
was doing and they would be using that law to
downpress people.
The New Testament tells us about an event, in which they took a
woman because this woman had sex with a man she
was not married with. They did not bother the
man, though, but just the woman.
They took the woman to a place to get stoned and it
was not a Dutch coffee shop where they took her
to. To be stoned meant that you would die
because of the many stones people throw at you. A
thing which you can still find today in certain
countries, by the way.
Yesus was there too, watching the hypocrites
who in themselves had violated almost every point
of the law already.
When the people were about to stone the woman,
He wrote something on the ground. Too much speculation
over just what it was that He wrote
down. It's not important, otherwise it would have
been mentioned. What was mentioned, is Yesus
Kristos explaining the law to the stoners.
He said to them: "Let He That Is Without
Sin Cast The First Stone".
Obviously, nobody was able to do it....
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