Somewhere I heard ...

Remember the story from the Bible when the adulteress is caught in the act, brought before Christ and the Pharisees try to trap Jesus by asking him if they should stone her to death for her sins?

According to scripture, Jesus starts writing in the sand ... but we're never told exactly what he's writing. Yet one by one, (starting with the oldest; hmmmm) the Pharisees all suddenly remembered they had something else that urgently needed taking care of on their To-Do list and quietly wandered away.

Somewhere I heard somebody say it's only speculation, but they thought maybe what Jesus was writing in the sand was a list of the Pharisees' sins ... right there in the open ... for all the world to see.

As though the Pharisees thought they could ultimately hide their sins from God.

OK wow, that's big.

Like BIG in a God-only kinda way.

Alone with the woman, "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Still some skeptics argue that Christ was a fabrication created either by folklore and legend, or by a committee of scribes working in the bowels of the Vatican under the Pope's direction.

Shoot, from my experience church committees can't even agree on whether the pastor should get a housing allowance that's adjusted for inflation.

Somehow I can't accept that the perfect concepts of Forgiveness , Grace, Resurrection and Eternal Life evolved alongside our ancestors up there swinging between the tree limbs.