Quote Originally Posted by snowblind
i took it on a literal meaning when i thought about it. that children (aka little people) need to be nourished and feed by us to be healthy. that it is not right to feed adn lavish your dog when your child goes un nourished. but it is ok to feed the dogs the crumbs as the children have had the majority of the food and so are fed. plus this saves on tiding up after the little fuckers.

the trouble with the bible is that it has been translated and reiterated so many times in the past milenia, it is hard to work it out. also time, context and social knowledge plays a great part in any literature. but becomes less relevent as time passes.

take for example the 80's

so if you then factor those 20 years difference and times that by 100 (2000 years ago) things are very distorted.

That doesnt make sense in context with the actual statement. Who are the children and who are the dogs?


Do not give the Childrens' food to the dogs.


I think Jesus meant Children = Jews

Dogs = Gentiles

Whereas what youre saying has nothing to do with the situation in the Bible. If Jesus had meant it like that the transcript would go like this.

Woman: "Jesus please heal my daughter"

Jesus: "Never feed the childrens' food to the dogs because the children need nourishment more than animals."

That just wouldnt make any sense. Im not sure you fully understand the quotation. Either that or you think that Jesus meant the Jews needed it more not because of their religion but because of other circumstances. But then again, it isn't ACTUALLY food, its power, its never ending. It wastes a bit of time, but what's 5 seconds to the Son of God?