JESUS IN A RACIST INTOLERANT FASHION INSULTS A SAMARITAN WOMAN
Samaritans were heretical Jews who were not considered to be racially pure. They were hated outcasts and had to have a temple and religion of their own.
Jesus informed a Samaritan lady at the well that salvation comes from the Jews (John 4:22). He told her to reintegrate.
Put this in context. She would have been in danger from her own people for attempting to do that. And the Jews hated Samaritans on race and religious grounds.
He was clearly saying that you go to the one true faith at any price for the evil done to you over it is chosen for you by others. You are the one doing the right thing.
The rules would be as he knew that she could become a Jew that but as racial purification was required it would only be a descendant far down the line, ten generations in fact, who would get proper full acceptance.
This is a denial that sincerity is enough and
that God will save you if you are not in the true religion. The Samaritans
followed virtually the same Law as the Jews and were sincere. They believed in
the same God as the Jews though there were some minor differences and yet Jesus
said that the Jews know what they are worshipping and the Samaritans do not
(John 4:22). He meant they were not in touch with God or getting intimate with
him for they had the wrong faith. Not only does this suggest that those who have
not heard of God and those who do not believe in him will not be saved but it
suggests you can have the true God and know a bit about Jesus and still be
damned so you need to know a fair bit about them. The Jews and Samaritans were
theologically closer than Catholics and Protestants are. This clearly shows that
if the Protestants are right the Catholics will be lost forever for they do not
have a relationship with God. The relationship they have is like the
relationship a man has with a woman he has deluded himself is in love with him
and that he loves her.
Jesus told the Samaritan woman that she and her co-religionists did not know
what they were worshipping for those who worship God must worship him in spirit
and in truth for "God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality)" (John 4:24). Because God is
bodiless or a spirit we have to be spirits too to worship him. Whatever could
Jesus have meant by such a statement? He certainly was supporting the Gnostic
doctrine that you treat your body as not you or part of you and that you live
like a spirit or as if you didn't have a body. By implication, Jesus was denying
that his resurrection body was a real body despite its power to materialise. He
said then that because God is a spirit we must worship him in truth. What does
that mean? It can't mean, "God is a spirit so we must worship him in reality or
really worship him." That makes no sense. If God is supreme then spirit or not
he is entitled to our worship. If God is a spirit then he can be everywhere and
see all things. So Jesus must have meant, "Worship God by the truth for God
knows and sees all". He will see if you have the truth or not and will treat you
accordingly. When you have the truth of God, God is pleased for you agree with
him and this is worship. Those who do not have the truth will not be accepted by
God.
He got her to admit that she had several husbands and the man in her life was not her husband. In an age where girls were forced to wed too young and to be raped in marriage, instead of impugning her autonomy he should have upheld it.
