Several Rumbek listeners said Sunday morning all human beings are sinners and in need of God’s mercy and forgiveness, adding that people should be ready to forgive.
During a phone-in program at Good News Radio focusing on Sunday’s Gospel Reading, listeners insisted that Jesus was wise to ask the people to look at their own lives, adding that it was because they were all sinners that they walked away one by one, beginning from the elderly.In the Gospel Jesus was presented with a woman caught committing adultery.
John Maguet from Makuraric, from the outskirts of Rumbek town, said if God would punish us by death for our sins, the world would be without human beings.
Mr. Maguet was responding to Gabriel Amat from Akot who expressed dissatisfaction with Jesus’ action setting the woman free.
However, Deborah Adol, another listener, said it was not fair to present to Jesus one person because it takes two to commit adultery.
Ms Adol applied the Gospel to the Dink culture saying that among her people a man guilty of adultery pays a fine of seven cows while the woman is freely given back to the husband.
She added that punishing both accomplices would be the just way.
Jeroboam Makoi, a listener in Yirol, said in a text message to Good News Radio, “what touches me is that no one is without sin. This means that we should not condemn others while we also have sins.”
And he added: “As Jesus told the woman not to sin again, we the people of Lakes State can learn not to condemn but to forgive.”
The Reading about the Woman caught in the very act of Adultery illustrates to Christians that God is love and compassion, hating sin but loving the sinner.