RE: If Only The Romans
December 30, 2014 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 6:14 pm by Lek.)
(December 29, 2014 at 10:07 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Except that he was specifically discussing a believer from another tribe who had come to him in search of a miracle: that's hardly someone coming to bring the disciples down. In fact, the woman specifically calls out to him as "Lord," capitalized and all. Jesus' response is that he hadn't been sent for anyone but the "lost sheep of the house of Israel." The reason he refused to help her, the basis for his calling her a dog, wasn't that she was being unfaithful or malicious, but that she wasn't of the correct race. She was a Canaanite, there in supplication to Jesus, on behalf of another person; her actions were entirely unselfish and based in love, and yet she was rejected. Your excuse here is simply inapplicable.
The problem is you are wrong about Jesus refusing to help the woman (Matthew 15:21-28). He granted her request and healed her daughter. He also died to save her as well as to save the Jews.
Quote:You can carry a message to people you don't intend to save. You can't extrapolate a whole plan from what might be the first step, but only if you already believe that the plan was there.
Are you saying that Jesus didn't plan to save Gentiles? If not, I guess I'm not saved.
