Posted on 12/05/2023 2:23:39 AM PST by Morgana
Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft is the woke impastor of Middle Church, in Manhattan, New York City. During a recent sermon progressive screed, she made a host of claims about Jesus, saying he was a xenophobic racist who was tired and stressed out when he dealt with the woman at the well, treating her poorly because he was “hurting” and “not his best self.” She insists that Jesus was acting the way he was acting, being rude and dismissive, because “Hurt people hurt people.”
Jesus, she claims, still had a lot of growing up to do, and the woman at the well “pulled a fast one on him” and forced him to change his mission and start ministering to Gentiles, therefore changing the world.
Bonus. We wrote about this church in our post Jemar Tisby Platforms and Praises Universalist Anti-Christ Pastrix (Seriously, It’s bad)
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No woman. He called her a dog, because gentiles, at the time, only get a fraction of the truth that the Jews were privvy to.
She’ll never have a chance to meet Jesus, where she’s going.... but if she did I’d like her to say that to His face.
Woke women don’t like it when God “Godsplains”.
So she’s saying she’s better than Jesus.
Here is the passage on the woman at the well: https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%204:4–30&version=nrsv .
I find no place where Jesus called the woman a dog.
How can somebody be so utterly clueless as to read the passage that way? Playing dumb....or really that dumb?
I don’t even have words for this...
Just another false priestess that “knows more than God”. Really, what kind of theology did she study in seminary, if in fact she ever did attend?
This is just more “make it up as you go along” kind of rationalization that has caused the drift away from what Christianity really means.
Making a rhetorical statement is one thing, but this approaches a complete denial. There does not seem to be any attempt to walk it back.
That’s right.
There’s some mix up with Matthew 15:26.
She must be confusing the well story with Matthew 15:26, where Jesus said “ “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs” (”puppies” actually).
Thank you. Jesus never called her a ‘dog’. This ‘pastor’ needs to know her Bible and study the very words of Scripture.
In Matthew when Jesus traveled up to Tyre and Sidon he referred to a woman as a little puppy. He was stating that He came to God’s people to work miracles and manifest His glory and the Father. The gentile, in faith, responded that even the little puppies get to eat the crumbs that fall from the table.
He healed her daughter, her faith showed that she believed He could heal and the Father would get the glory for the healing.
On the other hand, in a world where the truth is flexible, she may just be enjoying her right to play fast and loose with the facts.
Wow! She’s correcting the God of the universe
I admit, that was a new one for me.
She is the founder of Raising Imagination, a platform that examines social issues through the lens of imagination and encourages activism with young and old alike.
Her activism has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal, and Refinery29. She graduated from the Baptist Theology Seminary of Richmond, Virginia with a M.Div. and from Samford University with a B.A. in Communications Studies and a Minor in Christianity, Women, and Leadership. Amanda’s pronouns are she/her/hers.
Amanda was ordained by Metro Baptist Church in 2016, is married to Graham and has three children Zane, Levi, and Skyler.
LOL!!!
Well played, Protestia.
Did she even read that passage?
Jesus went a fair way to ministering to that woman and she then to her people.
That “ well of Jacob” (who was renamed Israel) is now in so-called palestinian lands on West Bank.
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