Jesus and the Canaanite Woman (Diogenes Skepticism)

Do you notice that the candidate woman did not feel or appear to be insulted by Jesus calling her “a dog?” Why do you think that is?

It’s important to know that the Bible is not just a metaphorical allegorical story, Jesus is a real man, who happens to be God, and he appeared in our world in the middle of our history right around the first century A.D., in Israel which is very close to Greece. The woman embraced the title almost with pride or practical admission of fact, as commander Spock from Star Trek would admit a fact about himself dispassionately, because she was a skeptic – a follower of Diogenes the Dog, the philosopher from Greece. Words of the oddities, skeptics, atheists, people who followed something similar to “Vulcan logic” Call themselves “dogs.” And it wasn’t an insult it was a badge. Rather than calling her a really bad name, Jesus is basically making light of the fact that she’s a skeptic something like an atheist. It would be like calling her “a Darwin” these days. Wordplay, because Greeks like wordplay and he’s speaking to her almost as a Greek would speak to another Greek. She is aware that she’s coming to Jesus, and he’s making her aware that she’s coming to God, and somewhere in the middle of that encounter she realizes it. there is humor and irony in an atheist atheist tickly coming to Jesus, and then at some point realizing that he’s God and making a joke with him about how she used to be an atheist but not anymore. People who at least used to be skeptics can still laugh at themselves admit that they used to be skeptical atheist but they’re not anymore. And Jesus and that person can chuckle about it make some wordplay and then get down to business to help you. If you ask Jesus for a miracle he can certainly give you one, if you ask Him for healing and rescue he can certainly heal and rescue you.