Christians in the West look on with confusion as they ponder their apparently unforgivable guilt. They cannot imagine that their rejection by the world is anything except their own fault.
How different is it to learn of the posture which Jesus himself taught? Recognizing that the outsider to Israel’s covenant was not privileged in the same way that the insider was, Jesus emphasized that particularity. We could even say that Jesus discriminated.
When the Syrophoenician woman wanted Jesus to perform a deliverance miracle for the benefit of her daughter, Jesus discriminated.