Interplanner
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This seems to have some sense to it. Yet there are plenty of instances where 1, this doesn't matter (you would 'minister' to those where you lived regardless) and 2, where He indicated his message was (eventually) for all people. (You don't provide atonement for sin one way for one race of people and another for another...).
But beside all that, we should revisit the 1st century world and circumstance. You traveled every where on foot. There is neither internet nor interstates as we know them. The main reason for the road system was dispatch of troops. I think of El Salvador or Swaziland and wonder how many people outside they would ever see, and whether they would think of the outsiders as their market.
Geographically you have huge limitations. It's a north-south strip, and there's not much public travel on the waters and the desert is a physical danger--or has borderline 'nations' who want to puncture Roman control of Mediterranean, like the Idumeans.
I don't think he would have humanly had occasion for much of the outside world. So then we should ask, what about the few exchanges with those outside. This is illuminating. when there is a Roman centurion or household to talk to, he shows every interest in them being believers. He makes test cases out of a few others, and women at that. When three 'maji' come from Persia, they leave with sufficient knowledge of the Gospel.
'Jesus ministered to the circumcision' amounts to a non-statement. It is Dispensationalism trying to score points for 2P2P which is a belief that there are 2 peoples and programs running unmet in the Bible, and they need to be adhered to strictly. 2P2P would rather chop up passages into its distinctions than have a 'messy' unified message.
But beside all that, we should revisit the 1st century world and circumstance. You traveled every where on foot. There is neither internet nor interstates as we know them. The main reason for the road system was dispatch of troops. I think of El Salvador or Swaziland and wonder how many people outside they would ever see, and whether they would think of the outsiders as their market.
Geographically you have huge limitations. It's a north-south strip, and there's not much public travel on the waters and the desert is a physical danger--or has borderline 'nations' who want to puncture Roman control of Mediterranean, like the Idumeans.
I don't think he would have humanly had occasion for much of the outside world. So then we should ask, what about the few exchanges with those outside. This is illuminating. when there is a Roman centurion or household to talk to, he shows every interest in them being believers. He makes test cases out of a few others, and women at that. When three 'maji' come from Persia, they leave with sufficient knowledge of the Gospel.
'Jesus ministered to the circumcision' amounts to a non-statement. It is Dispensationalism trying to score points for 2P2P which is a belief that there are 2 peoples and programs running unmet in the Bible, and they need to be adhered to strictly. 2P2P would rather chop up passages into its distinctions than have a 'messy' unified message.
