15:3-9 Don’t edit the word of God to suit your beliefs. (Follow the one Church that Jesus founded.)
Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. At different moments in our lives, we can be both, and we need Jesus equally in both circumstances.
Jesus helped the Canaanite (non-Jewish) woman because of her PERSISTENT FAITH.
He indirectly referred to her as a “dog”, I believe, to show the Apostles the error of their ways in assuming that Jesus came only for the Jews, using an epithet that they, themselves, likely used to describe Gentiles. It was a “teaching moment” that Jesus used, for their benefit.
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