Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: Immerito

Would Christ have liked dogs? He was Jewish, and probably regarded them as impure. The only reference to dogs in the New Testament is the reply to the Canaanite woman - should I take the bread from the table and give it to the dogs - which seems to put them forward as an example of lowly beings.


73 posted on 09/17/2011 1:22:52 AM PDT by BlackVeil
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]


To: BlackVeil

Actually, the opposite is true; because the Jews refused to receive the message of the Kingdom, the message was given to the “dogs” (Gentiles), who received it gladly

The “dogs” received what the “children” threw away—the “dogs” responded in better faith than did the “children”, who ought to have been leading the “dogs” into knowledge of the Kingdom and its King in the first place!

Moreover, you are speaking of the One who created the wolf and gave man the intelligence to understand how to use selective breeding to bring about the first dogs.


74 posted on 09/17/2011 6:15:29 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson