Children's faith vs. dog's faith - Mt 15:21-28

The original Korean text: http://blog.naver.com/stevision/50025469460

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I think no animals are so faithful as a dog. A dog never betrays its master. Even when the owner of the dog would kill it to eat it, it would not resist his intention and run away. (You should not criticize those who eat dog meat. It is only a culture of food.)

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This characteristic of dogs comes from animal instincts. A dog wags the tail before its master and obeys his commands to live. In addition, the dog does not oppose its master and has to give up its life if the master asks it, because it can not stand against the absolute authority, its master.

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Jesus has preached the gospel only in Israel, but now he unusually goes to Sidon and Tyre, where the Gentiles live. to preach the gospel. By the way, a Canaanite woman living there had heard that Jesus had an extraordinary ability to heal illness, so she cried to Jesus who was walking with his disciples ahead of her. "Jesus, O Lord, my daughter is severely possessed by a demon. Please heal her!" But Jesus did not respond to the cry. (Couldn't he hear that?) This woman shouted louder. Still, Jesus did not look back. The disciples beside him were very sorry for that and said, "Lord, why don't you cure her daughter? She beseeches you for help too eagerly. You look like someone else today. You are not generous today."

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However, Jesus said so clearly that everyone could hear him, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." Oh! A higher mountain after a high mountain! (Out of the frying pan into the fire.) This remark of Jesus was so shocking that the disciples could hardly believe their ears. The disciples were dumbfounded at Jesus' remark, but the woman said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus returned to his former benevolent attitude and said, "O Woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." Immediately her daughter became a normal person.

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Let us consider the words of Bible, especially the words of Jesus as they are. Jesus told the Gentile woman that she was like a dog, so that she could not be granted the grace of God. Here we must realize that Jesus pointed out that the faith that this woman had was a faith that dogs have. What is the faith of dog? The dog serves the one who fills its stomach with something as its master. The dog wags the tail before its owner and serves him without any interest in his character. The dog doesn't care at all whether its owner is a thief or a burglar or a fraud (or a murderer). The dog eats what the master throws at it and wags its tail several times, and that's all. The faith of dog is a belief that he who favors me with what I want is my master. So he who gives everyday food is the dog's master, and even if a passerby throws a piece of meat at the dog, it will wag the tail at him and serve him as its master for a bit.

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Idolatry is the faith of dog. If a man, believing that a big tree in the village can bless him, bows to the tree, he has the faith of dog. If a man bows to and serves a stone as his master when everything goes well in his house after he brought the strange stone into his house, he has the faith of dog. When Jesus saw the woman approaching him with this kind of faith, he gave her such humiliation. This woman was not interested in the personality of Jesus or the God, but thinking Jesus to be just a somewhat peculiar man who could cure illness, she begged Jesus to heal her daughter, without knowing that he was the Savior of the world. But this time Jesus rejected the woman's request, saying "It is only for the children of God to receive God's grace."

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What is the faith of child? Children have reverence for their parents. Those who recognize their parents as parents are children. The faith of child is a belief that recognizes God as one's spiritual Father. This faith of child has the structure of person-to-person and includes the recognition of the absolute value of the parents and the gratitude both for blessing and for reproof. Jesus wanted to use his might for and show his mercy to those who had such absolute faith.

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The Gentile woman, having listen to him, replied, "Yes, I am a dog. But let me take the crumbles that fall from the table of God's children." This means that this Gentile woman has discovered the blessing of God's children, and that she is confessing a faith that she wants to be God's daughter and to receive the blessing. This woman has shown the faith that she will abandon many gods scattered in the Gentile world and make only the God of Israel as her Master (her God).

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Having seen this faith, Jesus, at last, granted her wishes. For a moment Jesus grieved her by rejecting her beseeching request in order that she might have a faith of child, because she would not get out of the faith of dog and the value of the gospel would be undermined if he helped her while she had a faith of dog.

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Before this, Jesus had solemnly ordered the disciples not to give dogs what is holy (Mt 7:6). In other words, do not recklessly distribute the grace of God cheaply to those in the faith of dog. (Do not proclaim God's forgiveness to the wicked stubborn homosexuals! They deserve only the eternal flame of the hell!) Because a pig will make a pearl coated with its dung if the pearl is thrown to the pig. (How much have homosexual psychopaths, the self-styled Christians, defiled the holy God, the holy gospel, and the holy church in USA!) The gospel and the grace of God, especially the priesthood, should be allowed only to those who have the faith of child. And If a man in the faith of dog want to have Christian truth, let him know first what the faith of child is, and make him a man of the faith of child, and then grant him the holy blessings of the Christianity.