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Jesus and the Canaanite woman, from an illustrated Arabic manuscript, most likely created in Egypt by a Coptic monk in the 17th century He thinks he’s scoring a point. “If Jesus could change his mind when confronted with truth, maybe his followers should be willing to as well.” That is a minister named Brandan Robertson responding to a Stream story . He’d claimed that Jesus had said racist things, but then repented.
The self-described “progressive Christian” Robertson commends a clip from a Rev. Jacqui Lewis . Lewis thinks she shows Jesus changing his mind on a very big matter. After an exchange with a Canaanite woman, he suddenly realized that he’d misunderstood his mission. That’s a big Oops for the Son of God. But he was big enough to admit he was wrong.
If Jesus can do that, why can’t those silly people at The Stream ? The Story
To be fair, Lewis offers a plausible reading of the story. It’s one of the odder stories in the gospels, at least to our ears.
She speaks of Jesus’s encounter with the Canaanite woman. The story appears in Matthew (15:21-28) and Mark (7:24-30). She asks Jesus to heal her daughter, he ignores her, and the disciples ask him to send her away. He tells them he was only called to the children of Israel. The woman argues anyway. They banter back and forth, and when Jesus seems to give her a definite no, she deftly turns his words to make her own point.
Jesus says it would be wrong to give the children’s bread to the dogs. She notes that even the dogs get the crumbs from the master’s table. Samaritan woman FTW! Jesus praises her faith and heals her daughter.
Lewis tells the story. She implies that Jesus’s words about “the dogs” were beneath him and contradicted what he’d said before and after. She then asks, “And what does Jesus do?” Throwing out her hand with each word, she says deliberately, “Changes. His. Mind .”
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Changes his mind about the extent of the grace of God. Changes his mind about who he is. He’d thought […]
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