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To: Little Ray

David’s grandmother, Ruth, was a gentile. So David’s descendant and the Messiah (Jesus) is relevant to both gentiles and Jews. I’ve always loved this!


36 posted on 08/17/2016 9:02:06 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

Ruth was David’s great-grandmother, but she was a Moabite, so descended from Lot, Abraham’s nephew. Was she technically a Gentile?


57 posted on 08/17/2016 3:40:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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David’s grandmother, Ruth, was a gentile. So David’s descendant and the Messiah (Jesus) is relevant to both gentiles and Jews. I’ve always loved this!
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Sorry, but no and no.

First of all, Ruth was a Jew, and even if she wasn't, that would not affect David's status as a Jew. Ruth converted to Judaism before marrying Boaz and bearing Obed. See Ruth 1:16, where Ruth states her intention to convert. After Ruth converted, she was a Jew, and all of her children born after the conversion were Jewish as well. But even if Ruth were not Jewish at the time Obed was born, that would not affect King David's status as a Jew, because Ruth is an ancestor of David's father, not of David's mother, and David's Jewish status is determined by his mother.

Judaism has its own Moshiach so another religion's messiah probably won't be too relevant to Jews.

65 posted on 08/18/2016 4:33:25 AM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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