[JesseShurun]

What do you think of this?

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever

Interesting isn't it in the light of Ruth and David's lineage.

[JesseShurun]

So x, if your argument re Jesus were true, that Jewishness comes thru the mother, what are you going to say in David's case? He's cursed beyond Jesus even, having a Moabite mother. Matthew did not post that geneology lightly and his theology is addressed to the Jews of that day. Guess he had them by the short hairs.

[JesseShurun]

If as you say, Scripture cannot be broken, (but I say, God has His own reasons for doing what He does and maybe he has not confided in us, or written it in the revealed Torah, or maybe He has revealed it in the person of Christ after all) please explain King David in light of this scripture from the OT:

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever.

He has repeated this commandment in books other than Deuteronomy, so He must have meant it. So what are we to make of it all I wonder?

[the_doc]

I've always regarded that as one of the cutest pictures of justification in the entire Bible.