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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
There are also some interesting linguistic quirks: for instance, the word for "sin" in the original Greek actually means "to miss the mark."
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That places a new light on "he who has never sinned, cast the first stone."
Jesus was asking for people who could kill the sinner humanely -- with one stone! That would explain the strange support of capital punishment amoung many nominal followers of Jesus...