Posted on 09/11/2024 11:36:00 AM PDT by Morgana
Ethan Alexander Jewett is an Episcopal priest known by his online moniker @jackedpriest. An avid bodybuilder in his spare time, he is the openly gay leader of the demonic lair St. George St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, PA, where he’s been shacking up with his “partner” of three years.
In a recent sermon, Jewett took aim at Jesus’ interaction with the Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7 when he told her “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs” and she replied “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
“I think it really highlights the fact that if Jesus is fully human as well as fully divine, then Jesus was shaped by the socio, cultural, historical context in which he had been born.”
Describing Jesus’ behavior as “heartless,” “problematic,” and “dehumanizing,” he says that after the woman answered back, Jesus realized that he got “read” and was sobered by the realization.
It shows that Jesus is fully human, just like us, because Jesus can learn. Jesus can change his mind. How many of us, as we’ve developed, have said and done things, held very narrow-minded perspectives that we regret now? And some brave soul said, ‘look here. It’s time for some truth-telling.’ And they handed that to us, and we’re like, ‘my bad. You’re right. I’m sorry.’
Jewett insists that “Jesus was a product of his society, his time, his place, his cultural grounding, his religious grounding” and that their verbal skirmish showed that “even our Lord could be instructed, could be taught, could learn and grow beyond his original programming.” He concludes:
“Because what that Syrophoenician woman said is, ‘you say you believe these things, just like you tell the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and look at that garbage that just came out of your mouth.’ And (Jesus) was like, ‘oh man, you are right. I did say I believe that, and yet I did not practice that.’
So even Jesus shows a little struggle with integrity in that moment, which he very quickly rebounds from because it shows that he’s self-aware, that he can learn.
Don’t worry folks, Hell isn’t near full yet.
What an idiot
homosexual theology
But He was reluctant because of that incident with the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Wow. Even the radical German Christians of the textual criticism era like Bultmann did not stoop this low.
The only explanation is they’re full of demons.
And to think that Episcopalians used to claim to be a mainstream religion. Both them, and The Methodists have been hijacked by radicals sent by satan.
This jerk Jewett clearly is programmed in LISP.
Besides being a heretic, he is a self-centered idiot. There were at least as many cultural differences between Jewish society of Jesus’ time and then-extant world cultures as between this idiot’s chosen culture and that of the Jews of Jesus’ time. Yet Jesus expected his message to be taken to all the nations. This idiot cannot explain his objections in light of that. He preaches to scratch itching ears.
Good lord - the sheer misconstruing of this passage.
The woman wasn’t a black Karen saying “no way Jesus, I got every bit of right to your miracles as these privileged white Jewish folk.”
No - the woman was still on her knees begging for even the scraps of miracles.
But I wouldn’t expect a queen who openly flaunts God’s law to understand the difference. Let alone intentionally lead the flock astray and belittle Jesus and claiming he couldn’t even keep to his own Word when told “the truth”
Yeah but Jesus saves often…
My Dad was an ordained Episcopal rector of a church in Atlanta Ga. My mom grandma and brother are buried next to the church. I won’t go there anymore.
YESHUA IS the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is returning soon, and it will be as th3 Lion of the Tribe of Juhda.
this homo priest said he need to "grow beyond his original programming" - so maybe Jesus was programmed in FORTRAN
It's soooo long ago...
An extract on this from a sermon I preached Jan 2023:
Matthew 15:21 Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And a Canaanite woman from that region ...
We know that Matthew’s Gospel is aimed at fellow Jews who share a common culture, history and most importantly a common understanding of scripture and of God. Because of this I am always alert for the Gospel writer to be using a form of a shorthand with meaning that was obvious to the original audience.
Note, the description of the woman. This description is one key to understanding the point of this scripture. Matthew describes her as a Canaanite woman that comes from the region of Tyre and Sidon.
I read his description of her as a Canaanite woman as describing who she is.
Here is my point. A Canaanite would not accept that any Jew has authority over them let alone a rabbi if they did not accept the very God of the Jews. Using the analogy of dogs, a Canaanite would never accept Jesus as the alpha.
I believe there is a constant theme that many of Matthew’s chosen stories contain and that is that Jesus has authority over us and that we need to accept that authority. Accepting Jesus’s authority is a primary step toward having faith.
A person that identifies as Canaanite by definition has already rejected God’s authority.
**An avid bodybuilder in his spare time**
Yeah, I’ve noticed, when viewing snippets of megachurch videos, the trend of some ‘pastors’ wearing tight short sleeved shirts, and even tight jeans, making it clear that they are in great shape; probably to appeal to the carnally minded followers.
whoa now son, you are throwing rocks at the King of Kings and teaching HIM? Kinda remember the scribes and Pharisees being called vipers.
GOD SHALL NOT BE MOCKED!
REPENT FORNICATOR!
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