Posted on 03/13/2021 1:49:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
Which turned out great for the woman’s child. Amen.
I believe Jesus was testing her faith and she was rewarded by her answer by Jesus telling her the demon has gone from her daughter. At the time Jesus was preaching to the Jews, the reference of the dogs probably means the gentiles.
I didn’t know they had invented the N word that early.
So, Jesus isn’t even worthy of the throne?
This activist is a complete moron. Period. Anyone that listens to what he says is doomed.
That is not calling the woman a dog.
In the Gospels, Jesus often uses rhetorical devices such as irony (stating the opposite of what you mean), and Socratic questioning to lead his disciples and his opponents to make his point for him.
Good summary. Our Lord wanted this woman's daughter to be healed and for this woman to declare her faith; her faith was rewarded. It is important to not take Scripture out of context. There are other passages when Christ would refer to the Gentiles coming into the Kingdom of God and not being excluded. I believe one of the reasons he was furious at the moneychangers in the Temple was because they were occupying the outermost courtyard, the Court of the Gentiles, the place reserved especially for them. "My House shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."
They were doing it on the Sabbath to boot. There were not supposed to be moneychangers in a building designed after the pattern in the vision Moses received right from heaven, anyway.
Yes, according to Robertson’s “logic”.
Although, I’m trying to figure out in what context the word “puppy” is a racial slur.
Pastor is leading the congregation away from God, like the original Nimrod and other Prophets of Baal. These people got started before the ground dried from the big flood that killed everybody except Noah and his family.
It’s Cynophobic, of course.
In the usual vein of recasting prejudice, justifiable or not, as “fear”.
Actually, Jesus did say, “I have come for the lost sheep of Israel. It was because before his atoning sacrifice on the cross, and resurrection, He was operating under the Old Covenant. Once “it is finished” occurred, the Old Covenant was fulfilled, the veil between man and God was torn apart, making all, including Gentiles, able to be accepted into the Holy of Holies, the presence of the Lord, through Jesus. His disciples were always amazed when he would do miracles on behalf of non-Jews. Until he gave Peter the vision of the sheet lowered down,filled with all manner of unclean (under the Old Covenant) foods, and commanded him to “take and eat”, the apostles thought only Jews could be redeemed. They received with joy, the knowledge that any person who repented and accepted Jesus as Messiah, could be saved. (Born again, redeemed, made a part of the Kingdom of God, etc.).
Jesus came to redeem the Jewish people first. He chose Saul to spread the word to Gentiles (pagans) and Hellenistic Jews (Greeks who maintained their own culture but converted to Judism). What Jesus is saying to the woman is, Lady, I’m Jewish, you’re a pagan Greek who doesn’t believe in Judism, why on earth do you think I can help you? She professes her faith, the crumbs, the little she’s heard of Jesus has been taken in, and she believes. He knows she’s sincere in her heart so he helps her daughter, entering her house, and, very important to the story, breaks Jewish law by doing so. Breaking Jewish law to show that pagans as well as Jews were able to hear and understand The Word. This is reflected again in John 9 - where the roles are reversed: the Samaritan woman asking why a Jew wanted help from her and Jesus professes His Faith. Breaking yet another Jewish taboo, by not washing his hands before accepting the pitcher of water and staying two days with them.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
historical context:
Peter speaking in Acts 10:28:
28And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean...34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him..
One day Jesus is actually going to speak to this “pastor”. And it ain’t going to be pretty.
Yes, the very fact that there is a "chosen people" is one the would be considered racist by those who even milk is racists, but the Jews were and are not beloved because of any racial superiority, but for the father's sake:
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. (Romans 11:28)
And in saying "Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs" the Lord is referring the Syrophenician's lack of covenantal standing to ask a miracle of God, and which was a test for her, but it is showing the Jews - whose are called worms* - and everyone else that no one who comes to God in faith with a poor and of a contrite spirit will be turned away. And she is an example for all in accepting her "illegal" status but believing that the mercy and grace of God is greater than that, and by which the believing Gentiles of like faith are made "fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" (Ephesians 3:6) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:13) To the glory of God.
*Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 41:14)
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Psalms 34:18)
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. (Isaiah 66:2)
The great falling away, maybe?
Bro, if we’re not in it right now I cannot imagine how bad the actual falling away would be.
You got it bro.
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