tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post3339489829291099578..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: The Cannanite Woman Argues With Jesus and Wins Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-12075288032514515212015-08-18T09:02:28.930-04:002015-08-18T09:02:28.930-04:00I think such passages are some of the things I fin...I think such passages are some of the things I find most persuasive, it would be hard to imagine someone inventing such things if they were trying to promote someone in the typical model of a messiah that people seemed to imagine. <br /><br />Indeed, one of the criteria Biblical scholars use to determine authenticity is how contrary to expectations the pericope is. This one is like Donald Trump saying something humane about "illegal immigrants." That's hardly a story his followers would make up to prove Trump was the Best Political Candidate Ever!<br /><br />Most atheists you'll argue with on-line are wholly ignorant of the scriptures or the scholarship surrounding them. They know nothing of exegesis, think whatever hermeneutic they bring is normative (and "objective," and so not a hermeneutic at all), and regard any simplistic reading of some passage they half-know as the final nail in the coffin of Christianity (which must need a lot of nails!).<br /><br />And Matthew is indeed writing to Jews, but it is Matthew who gives the "Great Commission," which is to take the teachings of Jesus out into the world, beyond the boundaries of the children of Abraham. Which is doubly interesting because Matthew and Luke (the only clear Gentile among the gospel writers) both draw from the same source, "Q", as well as from Mark (the earliest, and most "Jewish," of the gospels).Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com