Paidion, I don't want to divert from your main point but I just wanted to point out that this example from the OT was from, what I have categorized in my mind, God's civil law....you know, how to get along if such and such happens. For example, what do you do if you neighbor's cattle walks onto your land etc..etc... The "adultery test" was to be given to deal with a civil matter between a husband and wife. Therefore Jesus would not have used it in the John 8 scenario....but more important I still understand the main point you're trying to make.Please recall how Jesus dealt with the case of the woman caught in adultery. Then ask yourself whether He would have done what Yahweh supposedly did in the following account. And bear in mind this was not what was done to a woman caught in adultery. Any woman suspected by her husband of committing adultery, due to a fit of jealousy on his part, was made to drink polluted, bacteria-filled water as a test of her faithfulness:
Steve
PS...Since you are a former teacher, some of our sentence structure must drive you crazy!
