"Christian"

[summer_in_TX]

42. Plenty to disagree with and dislike.

But also much to agree with and believe that if we do THAT, we'll have a better world.

I don't know why that disturbing story is in there, unless it is to show that he had preconceptions he had to overcome. I'm glad that her persistence got Jesus' attention and moved him to action to heal her daughter. It doesn't look great, but he moved to do the healing (loving) thing.

Remember other times and teaching though. He stopped the stoning of the woman caught in adultery and did not judge her. He included Mary in the group he was teaching. He asked for water from the woman rejected by the village for promiscuity and talked with her (accepting her). He told us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the prisoner, tend the sick, welcome the stranger, do unto others as we would have others do unto us, and love our neighbor as ourselves. And who is our neighbor, he was asked? His answer was the story of the Levi and priest who walked by on the other side, and the Samaritan (a person of another ethnicity) who showed God's kindness and mercy to the man who'd been beaten unconscious. Clearly our neighbor isn't just those in our own tribe, race, nation, our neighbor is everyone. I once looked for all the bad, but found so much good.