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Originally Posted by NightSpirit  It's true that those men who brought that woman to Jesus were acting on what was written in those verses in the OT you quoted and I know the verses seem unmerciful. But in order for someone to actually be sentenced to be stoned, there were a specific set of steps that had to be followed first like this one. |
Please, that's no comfort.
These are merely procedural safeguards. It's no different from what might go on in a court of law, eg a person can't be convicted of shoplifting unless the prosecution provides enough evidence to the judge and jury to rebut the presumption of innocence etc etc.
It is also a different issue from whether people should be stoned to death for shoplifting.
Salem also had its procedural safeguards, before killing people who were found to be witches.