Woman Caught In Adultery: Everybody Must Get Stoned

There appear to be a pair of memes in evangelical circles. One is that Jesus was writing the sins of the woman's accusers. Sounds very medieval, and I should see if I can track down a source for that. The other is the question, "Where is the male adulterer?"

Both memes show a persistent misunderstanding of John, I think.

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Speed-Dating A Gospel: A Brief Jaunt Into Technical Stuff

My preference for an early date [for the Gospel of John] really rests on the fact that I'm unpersuaded by the arguments for a late date.  I just think they're based on assumptions that are doubtful.

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John's Gospel In Sickness and Health, and oh, yes, Franklin Graham

Christianity isn't a religion in the marketplace of religions. Not in John. It's the means by which your religion, whatever it is, declares itself part of God's life in the world.... And while the claims of John's Jesus are still pretty sweeping and exclusive, so long as people are worrying themselves about who's going to hell, their quotations from John are shooting blanks.  They're not reading the book.  They're looking at the Disney film.

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